Aren’t you able to mobilize funds for the growth of your company? Is your business stagnated only for money? Do you need funds for a financial turnaround? Do you need to plan your succession? Do you have an aspiration or problem or confusion about your business strategy?
Apohan is an equity funding / strategic corporate transactions / M&A advisory company. We aim to achieve the highest possible valuation as well as best possible contractual terms for our clients within a minimum timespan. We aren’t a broker, an investment bank, or a statutory compliance firm but an all-domain, end-to-end, and custom strategic services implementation company. We do only sell-side (business-side) advisory. We assist the medium & mid-size businesses in India in equity funding, corporate restructuring, financial restructuring & strategic management. Equity funding is our flagship service with transaction size between INR 10Cr to INR 500 Cr for the client companies in the annual turnover range of INR 25 Cr to 250 Cr. We provide success based, time-based as well as objective based services.
Our value proposition:
Our scope of work includes making a prospective client aware of the aspects of equity/strategic transactions, removing their misconceptions, and educating them on the complex process. SMEs don’t have a professional BOD, dedicated departments for business strategy, corporate management, financial strategy, contract strategy, transaction management, etc and they also don’t know how to identify right consultants, their scope of work, and deliverables. We carry out end-to-end scope including deal/transaction structure, investment requirement schedule, on-boarding investors, study of operational documents, preparation of transaction documentation, valuation, negotiations, due diligence assistance, investment contract, deal closure & handholding. We provide all expertise from a single company: finance, secretarial matters, business strategy, contracts, investment, etc. We also understand projects, engineering, operations, marketing & other aspects of business to the extent needed for a transaction. All this leads to a very high success rate.
Follow us on linked to understand more: Apohan LinkedIn Page and Presentation on Business Funding Strategy & Options for SMEs
Our client selection:
We just don’t select any business to provide our services. We carry out the following 4-step process:
Technical 1: The soundness of a business in terms of market, operations, profitability, management quality, corporate matters, etc.
Marketing 1: The ability & preparedness of a business to carry out a transaction in terms of timeline, budget, availability of documents, clarity of objectives, etc.
Technical 2: The reasonability & rationality of the offer to be made to an investor in terms of expected valuation & terms of contract.
Marketing 2: The terms of consulting contract & pricing with Apohan
Apohan Corporate Consultants Private Limited India is a leading M&A company in India. It has prepared a master database of the companies it has approached and has secured consulting mandates for equity investment. These businesses seeking equity funding are led by reputed technocrats with huge marketing strength, whose core strength, at the same time, isn’t strategic financing . Apohan assists them with its end-to-end customized equity investment consulting services. Apohan provides end-to-end equity funding consultancy & implementation services for operational growth or financial turnaround to SMEs with very high potential but which are lacking a professional well documented business strategy, a corporate management mechanism, a proper financial strategy and the merger & acquisition (M&A) expertise.
Broadly, there are the following ways in which you can associate with Apohan:
1. As a distressed asset, an NPA account, a company under ARC / CIRP for equity finance for financial turnaround of your business.
2. As a growing business for equity funding for growth, new projects, new initiatives, etc. Our focus is on Indian SMEs & new-age technology companies.
3. As a professional business: For formulation of a business strategy, financing strategy & corporate management plan.
4. As a strategic investor or as a financial investor: For equity investment in well-studied, low-risk, well contracted, high ROI private businesses.
5. As a financial intermediary, M&A professional firm: For M&A related strategic, statutory & compliance work in collaboration with Apohan.
6. As a deal broker: For connecting Apohan directly to the final decision-making client businesspersons or investors for a finding fees (referral fee).
Please get in touch with the undersigned on e-mail or WhatsApp.
Arun Joshi
WhatsApp: +91 9810481325
E-mail: arun.joshi@apohanconsultants.com
Website: www.apohanconsultants.com
Apohan is a start-up into consulting services for success-based strategic transactions to SMEs through disruptive, cost-effective, scalable, first-in-the-world, emerging-technology-enabled EquityTech platform.
The document outlines AlphaGrowth Capital, a search fund formed by three principals to acquire an existing private company valued between $10-50 million. It provides background on the principals, describes the investment structure which raises $600,000 for the search effort. It details the search strategy focusing on opportunities in India and the US across several industries. Key highlights include the aging demographics of business owners, the principals' industry experience, and the underserved acquisition niche for lower middle market companies.
This video tells the all the strategic financial concepts, especially concepts related to business funding & within that concepts related to equity funding from the perspective of a businessperson or a top management executive. The presentation removes of all the misconceptions of businesspersons regarding equity funding, tells its advantages & disadvantages, compares it with the other options. It goes in details of why most equity funding attempts fails & what can be done to bring about success.
This is the first of the three-part learning program for a business to understand the importance of equity funding for business growth and financial turnaround. The three parts of the program are:
1. Strategic financial concepts for a promoter of technical background
2. Process of equity funding
3. Factors for success of equity funding deal
This presentation file is on the first part. It covers what is the no-nonsense financial objectives of a business, how it is measured, what are the aspects of it, what are the types of it, how to improve it, why medium businesses stagnate or become NPA, etc.
The presentation also tells a business how to focus more on returns than on profits, what are the factors apart from profit that affect returns. It also tells various types of sources of capital for a business. This presentation creates a background to understand the equity funding process in a business.
Apohan is making the world's first strategic transaction platform. The highly ambitious new generation of SMEs need services for transactions (such as equity funding or JV) to grow. SMEs neither have a management capable of carrying out complex transactions nor know how to avail these services from consultants. Hence, strategic transactions are nearly absent in SMEs & the reason is lack of a economical, reliable service platform. Apohan's platform would bring the strategic transactions to the doorsteps of SMEs. Our platform caters to all ecosystem stakeholders, all parts of the transaction value chain & we capture exhaustive information of a business needed to take conclusive transaction decisions. Our platform is made to increase the success rate of transactions, reduce the cycle time, break the long broker chains & reduce the transaction costs. Apohan realizes counselling, screening & success charges. The company expects to close an unprecedented 100 transactions a day within 10 years. On the competition front, hardly 0.1% of fintech companies are in the transaction space & there is no transaction management platform in the whole world.
Denholtz Associates needed a platform to accelerate their fundraising process, improve investor reporting and management, and integrate with their existing systems. Their in-house solution using Yardi and Access was time-consuming and lacked necessary features. CrowdStreet Sponsor Direct enabled Denholtz to import 450 existing investors onto the platform. It streamlined the investment process from 2 months to as little as 24 hours. It reduced the IRM team's transaction workload from 40% to less than 20% of their time, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks. The president reported the platform increased efficiency by at least 30%.
Apohan Corporate Consultants Private Limited India is a leading M&A company in India. It has prepared a master database of the companies it has approached and has secured consulting mandates for equity investment. These businesses seeking equity funding are led by reputed technocrats with huge marketing strength, whose core strength, at the same time, isn’t strategic financing . Apohan assists them with its end-to-end customized equity investment consulting services. Apohan provides end-to-end equity funding consultancy & implementation services for operational growth or financial turnaround to SMEs with very high potential but which are lacking a professional well documented business strategy, a corporate management mechanism, a proper financial strategy and the merger & acquisition (M&A) expertise.
Broadly, there are the following ways in which you can associate with Apohan:
1. As a distressed asset, an NPA account, a company under ARC / CIRP for equity finance for financial turnaround of your business.
2. As a growing business for equity funding for growth, new projects, new initiatives, etc. Our focus is on Indian SMEs & new-age technology companies.
3. As a professional business: For formulation of a business strategy, financing strategy & corporate management plan.
4. As a strategic investor or as a financial investor: For equity investment in well-studied, low-risk, well contracted, high ROI private businesses.
5. As a financial intermediary, M&A professional firm: For M&A related strategic, statutory & compliance work in collaboration with Apohan.
6. As a deal broker: For connecting Apohan directly to the final decision-making client businesspersons or investors for a finding fees (referral fee).
Please get in touch with the undersigned on e-mail or WhatsApp.
Arun Joshi
WhatsApp: +91 9810481325
E-mail: arun.joshi@apohanconsultants.com
Website: www.apohanconsultants.com
Apohan is a start-up into consulting services for success-based strategic transactions to SMEs through disruptive, cost-effective, scalable, first-in-the-world, emerging-technology-enabled EquityTech platform.
The document outlines AlphaGrowth Capital, a search fund formed by three principals to acquire an existing private company valued between $10-50 million. It provides background on the principals, describes the investment structure which raises $600,000 for the search effort. It details the search strategy focusing on opportunities in India and the US across several industries. Key highlights include the aging demographics of business owners, the principals' industry experience, and the underserved acquisition niche for lower middle market companies.
This video tells the all the strategic financial concepts, especially concepts related to business funding & within that concepts related to equity funding from the perspective of a businessperson or a top management executive. The presentation removes of all the misconceptions of businesspersons regarding equity funding, tells its advantages & disadvantages, compares it with the other options. It goes in details of why most equity funding attempts fails & what can be done to bring about success.
This is the first of the three-part learning program for a business to understand the importance of equity funding for business growth and financial turnaround. The three parts of the program are:
1. Strategic financial concepts for a promoter of technical background
2. Process of equity funding
3. Factors for success of equity funding deal
This presentation file is on the first part. It covers what is the no-nonsense financial objectives of a business, how it is measured, what are the aspects of it, what are the types of it, how to improve it, why medium businesses stagnate or become NPA, etc.
The presentation also tells a business how to focus more on returns than on profits, what are the factors apart from profit that affect returns. It also tells various types of sources of capital for a business. This presentation creates a background to understand the equity funding process in a business.
Apohan is making the world's first strategic transaction platform. The highly ambitious new generation of SMEs need services for transactions (such as equity funding or JV) to grow. SMEs neither have a management capable of carrying out complex transactions nor know how to avail these services from consultants. Hence, strategic transactions are nearly absent in SMEs & the reason is lack of a economical, reliable service platform. Apohan's platform would bring the strategic transactions to the doorsteps of SMEs. Our platform caters to all ecosystem stakeholders, all parts of the transaction value chain & we capture exhaustive information of a business needed to take conclusive transaction decisions. Our platform is made to increase the success rate of transactions, reduce the cycle time, break the long broker chains & reduce the transaction costs. Apohan realizes counselling, screening & success charges. The company expects to close an unprecedented 100 transactions a day within 10 years. On the competition front, hardly 0.1% of fintech companies are in the transaction space & there is no transaction management platform in the whole world.
Denholtz Associates needed a platform to accelerate their fundraising process, improve investor reporting and management, and integrate with their existing systems. Their in-house solution using Yardi and Access was time-consuming and lacked necessary features. CrowdStreet Sponsor Direct enabled Denholtz to import 450 existing investors onto the platform. It streamlined the investment process from 2 months to as little as 24 hours. It reduced the IRM team's transaction workload from 40% to less than 20% of their time, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks. The president reported the platform increased efficiency by at least 30%.
EQUITYMULTIPLE Real Estate Platform IntroductionSoren Godbersen
CEO Charles Clinton introduces the EQUITYMULTIPLE platform and vision, the "crowdfunded" real estate finance space, and touches on our first several live investment opportunities
New Opportunities in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)Abby Johnson
PACE Financing is an innovative financial product where commercial building owners can upgrade their properties with energy efficiency and clean energy solutions with no money down for up to 20 years.
Apohan is a start-up into consulting services for success-based strategic transactions to SMEs through disruptive, cost-effective, scalable, first-in-the-world, emerging-technology-enabled EquityTech platform.
This document discusses various aspects of business planning and attracting investors. It covers identifying investor types, project requirements, building a business plan, and conducting due diligence. Key points include outlining investor options like VCs, angels, banks; requirements like a strong team, large addressable market; components of business plans and due diligence reviews that evaluate areas like sales, accounting, and value creation. The overall content provides an overview of planning and fundraising considerations.
Concept Capital Group is a real estate development company focused on sustainable architecture and delivering quality projects. They aim to build a diverse and winning team to successfully develop innovative projects for customers. Their portfolio includes completed residential and commercial projects across India. Current projects include The Core, a lifestyle hub in Ghaziabad with retail, office and food spaces, and Orizzonte, a mixed-use development in Greater Noida with serviced apartments, hostels, retail and residences. The document provides details on the management team, specifications, floor plans, payment plans and contact information for these projects.
Icai national seminar m&a-deal valuationAnjana Vivek
Some pointers on Deal Valuation which is beyond numbers, including some questions 'to trigger thinking' related to valuation from a buyer/seller perspective
The science and art of Startup ValuationsAnjana Vivek
Insights on Valuation and Negotiations… OR … how Can You can get a better price. ..whether for M&A or VC or strategic investment. Valuation is Subjective and Objective; there is a math to valuation, there are Business models which are captured in financial models and spread sheets. There is scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis. There are premiums and discounts assigned to multiple factors. This objective math is impacted by subjectivity of the person(s) doing the calculation, for example, if you are an unlisted company, is the discount factor 50% or 80% or somewhere in-between? This presentation sets out the methods and process of valuation with a few specific examples on valuations for different cases, including mentoring, acceleration, investment and more.
Microsoft Ventures Masterclass - Business models growth and value creationAnjana Vivek
A framework and process to analyse your business and help you take it to the next level. Topics: Business Models – A Brief Introduction; Stock Take – At the Start; Growth: Sales and Beyond Sales; Valuation and Value Creation; Other Aspects beyond numbers
The document provides information on valuation methods for startups. It discusses questions founders may have about valuation, outlines various valuation methods including cost, income and market-based approaches, and provides examples of how valuations are determined for startups at different stages. Valuation is presented as a multifaceted process that considers both tangible and intangible factors, and is driven by the team, funding needs, deal terms, and negotiation between founders and investors.
VC, PE, Angel, HNI, Seed Investor, Incubator, Accelerator, Corporate Investor, Strategic Investors, 3 Fs .. how do you distinguish between them? What is the homework you need to do before you approach an investor? How will you stand out from the clutter and demonstrate you can create value? How will you crack the exam of getting investors into the company, assuming you have a great idea, product, service or solution?Should you think of Plan B? Should you revisit your Business Model?
Finance nuances for a scaling venture - SAYesAnjana Vivek
Session on finance for 25 young entrepreneurs @ the South Asian Young Entrepreneurs Summit (SAYes) organised by The US Consulate General Chennai and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Bangalore Chapter
There is more to managing the financial health of your emerging start-up than raising money and selling out. The day-to-day financials matter, as they impact every other area of your business. Diagnosing your “full” costs, including those to acquire and serve customers, understanding different elements of cost. How your business model impacts your financial model and impacts value creation. It helps to institute the right procedures that will help keep things in check, and give you the visibility into key metrics so you can effectively monitor your progress.How do you read the numbers, the small data, not just the big data? How does value get created and what is valuation? Lack of knowledge may lead you to venture failure. The presentation at the IIMB/NSRCEL session for entrepreneurs and wanna be entrepreneurs is attached here touching on some of these aspects and more... Happy Reading
Start ups challenges for funding optionsAnjana Vivek
How do you choose from this range of investors and more: HNIs, informal and formal Angel groups,Seed Funds,Venture Capital, Private Equity, Banks, Strategic Investors, Corporate Funds; (Family) Business Groups, Indian & Global, Government supported funds, Impact Investors, Incubators, Accelerators, Crowd funding, Online funding platforms
The Utility Stores Corporation (USC) of Pakistan is a State-owned enterprise that operates chain stores throughout the country whose main purpose is to provide basic commodities to the general public at lower prices than the open market.
But due to the supermarkets, buyers prefer to go there than to utility stores because Its better to visit to supermarkets which have much better environment than to wait in queues outside the utility stores.
The Utility Stores' performance is declining day by day BECAUSE they aren’t able to manage their working capital properly.
The Essential Handbook For Raising Capital Part II: How To Approach An InvestorSankalp Forum
Now that you are armed with the all the salient details about your business that investors look for, you are ready to meet investors. This presentation presents as 4-step process on how to do so, explains impact investment for socially relevant businesses, and assessment in the pre due-diligence stage. It delves into how investors analyze your business model, market research, financial attractiveness and scalability.
Presented by leading social advisory firm Intellecap, this slide deck was prepared for Sankalp Forum. The Forum is an enabler of socially oriented early-stage businesses, and catalyzes investments, mentors and international networks to do so.
Read more about Sankalp at www.sankalpforum.com
Obtaining a 360 degree view by conducting a thorough due diligence to ensure ...Kenny Ong
Marcus Evans Structuring and Financing M&A Conference
Singapore,12-13 July 2010
Obtaining a 360 degree view by conducting a thorough due diligence to ensure a successful acquisition
• Analysing the pre-offer preparation
• Amplifying internal fitment
• Focusing on areas for due diligence
• Balancing valuation with fitment
• Examining the key facets of negotiation
The document discusses various options for financing a business, including grants, start-up financing, and other options like business plans. It provides details on applying for grants and common reasons for rejection. It also covers considerations for starting a business such as common mistakes, financial problems, and assessing if you have the commitment and skills to be an entrepreneur. Other financing options discussed include selling shares, private and public limited companies, and improving cashflow.
Starting and Financing a Small Business discusses the different types of small businesses including lifestyle, high-growth, and franchise businesses. It also covers how entrepreneurs spend their time, factors contributing to small business growth like technology and women/minorities, and the importance of preparing a business plan to guide operations and attract investors. The document outlines sources of financing for small businesses including debt, equity, and government assistance as well as why many new businesses fail due to issues like poor planning, funding, and management.
EQUITYMULTIPLE Real Estate Platform IntroductionSoren Godbersen
CEO Charles Clinton introduces the EQUITYMULTIPLE platform and vision, the "crowdfunded" real estate finance space, and touches on our first several live investment opportunities
New Opportunities in Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)Abby Johnson
PACE Financing is an innovative financial product where commercial building owners can upgrade their properties with energy efficiency and clean energy solutions with no money down for up to 20 years.
Apohan is a start-up into consulting services for success-based strategic transactions to SMEs through disruptive, cost-effective, scalable, first-in-the-world, emerging-technology-enabled EquityTech platform.
This document discusses various aspects of business planning and attracting investors. It covers identifying investor types, project requirements, building a business plan, and conducting due diligence. Key points include outlining investor options like VCs, angels, banks; requirements like a strong team, large addressable market; components of business plans and due diligence reviews that evaluate areas like sales, accounting, and value creation. The overall content provides an overview of planning and fundraising considerations.
Concept Capital Group is a real estate development company focused on sustainable architecture and delivering quality projects. They aim to build a diverse and winning team to successfully develop innovative projects for customers. Their portfolio includes completed residential and commercial projects across India. Current projects include The Core, a lifestyle hub in Ghaziabad with retail, office and food spaces, and Orizzonte, a mixed-use development in Greater Noida with serviced apartments, hostels, retail and residences. The document provides details on the management team, specifications, floor plans, payment plans and contact information for these projects.
Icai national seminar m&a-deal valuationAnjana Vivek
Some pointers on Deal Valuation which is beyond numbers, including some questions 'to trigger thinking' related to valuation from a buyer/seller perspective
The science and art of Startup ValuationsAnjana Vivek
Insights on Valuation and Negotiations… OR … how Can You can get a better price. ..whether for M&A or VC or strategic investment. Valuation is Subjective and Objective; there is a math to valuation, there are Business models which are captured in financial models and spread sheets. There is scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis. There are premiums and discounts assigned to multiple factors. This objective math is impacted by subjectivity of the person(s) doing the calculation, for example, if you are an unlisted company, is the discount factor 50% or 80% or somewhere in-between? This presentation sets out the methods and process of valuation with a few specific examples on valuations for different cases, including mentoring, acceleration, investment and more.
Microsoft Ventures Masterclass - Business models growth and value creationAnjana Vivek
A framework and process to analyse your business and help you take it to the next level. Topics: Business Models – A Brief Introduction; Stock Take – At the Start; Growth: Sales and Beyond Sales; Valuation and Value Creation; Other Aspects beyond numbers
The document provides information on valuation methods for startups. It discusses questions founders may have about valuation, outlines various valuation methods including cost, income and market-based approaches, and provides examples of how valuations are determined for startups at different stages. Valuation is presented as a multifaceted process that considers both tangible and intangible factors, and is driven by the team, funding needs, deal terms, and negotiation between founders and investors.
VC, PE, Angel, HNI, Seed Investor, Incubator, Accelerator, Corporate Investor, Strategic Investors, 3 Fs .. how do you distinguish between them? What is the homework you need to do before you approach an investor? How will you stand out from the clutter and demonstrate you can create value? How will you crack the exam of getting investors into the company, assuming you have a great idea, product, service or solution?Should you think of Plan B? Should you revisit your Business Model?
Finance nuances for a scaling venture - SAYesAnjana Vivek
Session on finance for 25 young entrepreneurs @ the South Asian Young Entrepreneurs Summit (SAYes) organised by The US Consulate General Chennai and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Bangalore Chapter
There is more to managing the financial health of your emerging start-up than raising money and selling out. The day-to-day financials matter, as they impact every other area of your business. Diagnosing your “full” costs, including those to acquire and serve customers, understanding different elements of cost. How your business model impacts your financial model and impacts value creation. It helps to institute the right procedures that will help keep things in check, and give you the visibility into key metrics so you can effectively monitor your progress.How do you read the numbers, the small data, not just the big data? How does value get created and what is valuation? Lack of knowledge may lead you to venture failure. The presentation at the IIMB/NSRCEL session for entrepreneurs and wanna be entrepreneurs is attached here touching on some of these aspects and more... Happy Reading
Start ups challenges for funding optionsAnjana Vivek
How do you choose from this range of investors and more: HNIs, informal and formal Angel groups,Seed Funds,Venture Capital, Private Equity, Banks, Strategic Investors, Corporate Funds; (Family) Business Groups, Indian & Global, Government supported funds, Impact Investors, Incubators, Accelerators, Crowd funding, Online funding platforms
The Utility Stores Corporation (USC) of Pakistan is a State-owned enterprise that operates chain stores throughout the country whose main purpose is to provide basic commodities to the general public at lower prices than the open market.
But due to the supermarkets, buyers prefer to go there than to utility stores because Its better to visit to supermarkets which have much better environment than to wait in queues outside the utility stores.
The Utility Stores' performance is declining day by day BECAUSE they aren’t able to manage their working capital properly.
The Essential Handbook For Raising Capital Part II: How To Approach An InvestorSankalp Forum
Now that you are armed with the all the salient details about your business that investors look for, you are ready to meet investors. This presentation presents as 4-step process on how to do so, explains impact investment for socially relevant businesses, and assessment in the pre due-diligence stage. It delves into how investors analyze your business model, market research, financial attractiveness and scalability.
Presented by leading social advisory firm Intellecap, this slide deck was prepared for Sankalp Forum. The Forum is an enabler of socially oriented early-stage businesses, and catalyzes investments, mentors and international networks to do so.
Read more about Sankalp at www.sankalpforum.com
Obtaining a 360 degree view by conducting a thorough due diligence to ensure ...Kenny Ong
Marcus Evans Structuring and Financing M&A Conference
Singapore,12-13 July 2010
Obtaining a 360 degree view by conducting a thorough due diligence to ensure a successful acquisition
• Analysing the pre-offer preparation
• Amplifying internal fitment
• Focusing on areas for due diligence
• Balancing valuation with fitment
• Examining the key facets of negotiation
The document discusses various options for financing a business, including grants, start-up financing, and other options like business plans. It provides details on applying for grants and common reasons for rejection. It also covers considerations for starting a business such as common mistakes, financial problems, and assessing if you have the commitment and skills to be an entrepreneur. Other financing options discussed include selling shares, private and public limited companies, and improving cashflow.
Starting and Financing a Small Business discusses the different types of small businesses including lifestyle, high-growth, and franchise businesses. It also covers how entrepreneurs spend their time, factors contributing to small business growth like technology and women/minorities, and the importance of preparing a business plan to guide operations and attract investors. The document outlines sources of financing for small businesses including debt, equity, and government assistance as well as why many new businesses fail due to issues like poor planning, funding, and management.
Starting and Financing a Small Business discusses the different types of small businesses including lifestyle, high-growth, and franchise businesses. It also covers how entrepreneurs spend their time, factors contributing to small business growth like technology and women/minorities, and the importance of preparing a business plan to guide operations and attract investors. The document outlines sources of financing for small businesses including debt, equity, and government assistance as well as why many new businesses fail due to issues like poor planning, funding, and management.
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The document discusses several types of business crises including starting, cash flow, delegation, leadership, financial, prosperity, and management succession crises. It provides causes and recommendations for how to prevent or overcome each type of crisis. Key advice includes thorough planning, developing management teams, effective delegation, consultation with experts, succession planning, and being adaptive to changes.
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Venture capital firm Teak Capital provides funding to technology startups in various stages from startup to pre-IPO. They have experience working with tech companies and a network of global linkages. Their areas of interest include software, IT, internet, wireless/mobility, and green tech. To receive funding, companies should have a cohesive management team focused on revenue, proof of customer demand, relevant staff hiring, and a strong board of directors. The document provides tips for startups seeking funding and outlines Teak Capital's investment portfolio.
Apohan is making the world's first strategic transaction platform. The highly ambitious new generation of SMEs need services for transactions (such as equity funding or JV) to grow. SMEs neither have a management capable of carrying out complex transactions nor know how to avail these services from consultants. Hence, strategic transactions are nearly absent in SMEs & the reason is lack of a economical, reliable service platform. Apohan's platform would bring the strategic transactions to the doorsteps of SMEs. Our platform caters to all ecosystem stakeholders, all parts of the transaction value chain & we capture exhaustive information of a business needed to take conclusive transaction decisions. Our platform is made to increase the success rate of transactions, reduce the cycle time, break the long broker chains & reduce the transaction costs. Apohan realizes counselling, screening & success charges. The company expects to close an unprecedented 100 transactions a day within 10 years. On the competition front, hardly 0.1% of fintech companies are in the transaction space & there is no transaction management platform in the whole world.
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The document discusses the requirements of banks and businesses for loans. It notes that banks need information about the business owners, the business itself, existing financial position, how loan funds will be used, loan amount and security. Businesses want easy access to loans without collateral, quick funding decisions based on projections rather than strict requirements. However, businesses often don't provide full information or have financial shortcomings that make it difficult for banks to evaluate them. The document suggests businesses would benefit from financial advisors to help with tax planning, investment strategies, and financial discipline to better meet bank requirements for loans.
The document discusses common challenges faced by small to mid-sized business owners and provides a solution in the form of C-LEVEL services. It notes that 95% of small business owners fail to achieve their goals due to getting caught up in daily operations and details. The critical missing pieces are optimization, strategy, and innovation. C-LEVEL services offer a proprietary 10-step process involving operational review, implementation of continuous improvement, and development of growth and succession strategies to help owners focus on their goals.
HHMC - what is your Recruitment Business Worth?HHMC Australia
This document discusses factors that influence the valuation of a recruitment business, including business characteristics, strategies, and current valuation models. It outlines characteristics that can increase valuation, such as an owner-dominant approach with strategic planning, versus those of a lifestyle business with little growth. Valuation is typically based on a multiple of normalized profit, and can range from below 2.5 for a lifestyle business to over 4.0 for an owner-dominant business pursuing growth opportunities.
The document provides guidance on developing an effective business plan to present to potential investors. It emphasizes that the business ideas must be fully developed and the plan must thoroughly answer key questions for investors. The business plan should include an executive summary, customer analysis, business strategy, marketing plan, operations plan, management team, financial projections, and sensitivity analyses. It also lists many specific questions that must be considered around market size, competitors, pricing, customers, suppliers, regulatory issues, risks, assets, and financial forecasts.
Looking to sell your business? This presentation maybe just what you're looking for!
I'm a stakeholder... get me out of here!
This is the full presentation, which took place on 01.03.11 and Eastwood Park Training & Conference Centre, Falfield, Wotton-Under-Edge (South Gloucestershire).
Speakers included:
- Chris Brill
- Will Abbott
- Peter Mardon
- Stewart Barnes
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2. APOHANTM
Why M&A (Strategic
Transactions)?
Destiny of businessman, Misconceptions about equity, Documentation &
business risks, Ownership & control, advantages of M&A, Bargaining power,
Deal failures, Precautions, Importance of a good contract, Essential elements for
deal success
21-Mar-21 APOHAN CORPORATE CONSULTANTS 2
3. APOHANTM
Destiny of a Businessperson…
To the Mount Everest
1. Directorial salary
2. Corporate benefits
3. Personal benefits
4. Dividend
5. Appreciation in share price/business value
6. Self-satisfaction/pride of personal
achievements
7. Recognition for contribution to economy &
society
8. Security of future generations from going
entity
9. Multi-national diversified conglomerate
To the Mariana Trench
1. Loss of substantial value created in business over years
2. Loss of capital brough initially in a business
3. Recovery from distress sale as a going entity
4. Recovery from liquidation (at scrap value?)
5. Recovery from returns earned from business
6. Recovery from other earnings of other owners
7. Recovery from auction of properties/assets
8. Recovery from personal / relatives’ guarantees
9. Civil court cases for recovery & operational matters
10. Criminal case regarding financial crimes
As a CXO or businessman, you yourself don’t need to be expert in the technical or compliance aspects of finance.
But, as a business leader, you are responsible for journey towards Mount Everest or Mariana Trench!
4. APOHANTM
Reasons for Stagnation & Financial Distress…
FINANCE RELATED
No financial planning
No financial analysis
Poor cash management
Poor fund flow management
Insufficient capital provisioning
Shortfall in working capital
Delayed recovery of receivables
Reducing profitability
No risk mitigation measures
Price war, stagnation
No computation of overheads
Improper allocation of overheads
No provisions for contingencies
Poor credit rating, CIBIL
Poor bank choice, relations
OPERATIONS RELATED
Absence of project plan
Delays in project completion
No necessary certifications
Absence of marketing infrastructure
Poor contracts with clients
Loss of key customers
Ineligibility for tenders
Absence of efficient procurement
Low capacity utilization
No product basket rationalization
Frequent shutdowns
Rejection due to poor quality
Absence of innovation
Unexpected regulatory development
Poor documentation, communication
MANAGEMENT RELATED
Office politics
Friction in the management
Loss of business partner
High attrition of employees
Loss of key employees
Frauds & corruption
Absence of policies
Poor reporting structure
No professional training
Poor working culture
No use of modern technology
No business data to analyse
Absence of compliances
No participation in industry activities
Success needs all success factors together! Failure needs aggravation of just one failure factor!!! You need consultants for avoiding financial
failure. Operational & management failure is your own. Also, external failure factors typically affect all businesses to the same extent.
5. APOHANTM
Benefits of M&A/Strategic Transactions
◦ Increased scale of operation
◦ Economies of scale
◦ Brand goodwill
◦ Market share/leadership
◦ Access to new markets
◦ Enhanced market share
◦ New geographic presence
◦ Synergies of operations
◦ Tax, subsidy, incentive benefits
◦ Reduction in competition
◦ Reduction in pressure on prices
A well undertaken M&A can transform a company into a corporate giant in future.
There are virtually unlimited benefits.
◦ Growth w/o new cash
◦ Settlement of liabilities, debts
◦ Financial turnaround of distressed assets
◦ Less overheads
◦ Ready made listed public form
◦ Infusion of money for growth
◦ New close stakeholders
◦ Removal of capability deficits
◦ Bulk buying advantage
◦ Enhanced creditworthiness
◦ Enhanced credentials for tenders
◦ Investment in upgradation, technology, R&D
6. APOHANTM
Timing of Transaction:
3 Bargaining Power Cases of a Business
Financial Distress
Supplier payment defaults
Working capital defaults
Bank NPA
Lok Adalat
Company Law Board
Strategic debt restructuring
SARFAESI, DRT, DRAT
Asset reconstruction
CIRP under IBC process /NCLT
High Court/ Supreme Court
Viable loss making business
Unviable business
Business under liquidation
The ability of company to bargain valuation & dictate terms is least when business is foreseeing
liquidation & the highest when the business is growing at fast pace with very high margins & low risks.
Introvert Businesses
Not able to take decisions
Don’t know right time to grow
Waiting to fail but don’t know
that
Loosing good opportunity
No timely succession planning
No horizontal or vertical
integration
Surviving on luck
Surviving on relationships
Growth Financing Requirement
WC for 100% capacity utilization
Capacity expansion
Product portfolio expansion
Geographical expansion
Vertical – forward & backward
expansion
Horizontal or lateral expansion
Inorganic growth
New greenfield or brownfield project
New product development, technology,
R&D
New business structure, contract
structure
Diversification
International expansion
7. APOHANTM
Why to Choose Equity over Debt?
SN Aspect Debt Funding Equity Funding
15 Risk of default High No
16 Punishment upon default Very high None
17 Term of investment Short Long
18 Due diligence Very Less Hectic
19 Documentation Less Hectic
20 Eligibility Institutional Discretionary
21 Funding decision basis Eligibility Merit based
22 Funding amount Limited Very high
23 Dilution of control No Yes
24
Interference in
Management No Yes?
25 Expectation of return Less Very high
26 Synergy benefits None Very high
27 Availability of variants Less High
SN Aspect Debt Funding Equity Funding
1 Guaranteed return Yes No
2 Fixed return Yes No
3 Periodic return Yes No
4 Time for disbursement Less High
5 Security requirement Yes No
6 Gurantee requirement Yes No
7 Compliance requirement Less Very high
8 Rejection criteria Rules Analysis
9 Corruption More Very less
10 Cost of raising funds Less High
11 Flexibility available Less Very high
12 Flexibility required Less Very high
13 Repayment requirement Yes No?
14 Interest payment Yes No
Absence of custom, end-to-end consulting & financial intermediary infrastructure
has ruined the high potential SMEs!!!
8. APOHANTM
Why deals don’t happen much in SMBs?
Reason 1: Internal Expertise Gaps
A big/large BOD
To take decisions
M&A department
To deal with transactions full time
Strategy department
To coordinate aspects of all departments/functions, to integrate merger
Finance department
For purpose of strategic valuation, overseeing transaction compliances
Corporate department
To manage internal corporate process, approvals
Legal (contracts) department
To draft, negotiate, vet the contracts
Businesses, even if sufficiently large, don’t know have these elaborate departments. Businesses
don’t know much what scope of work to give & how to review the deliverables.
Business also don’t realize something called consulting risk to its transaction as they have no
stakes after success fees (mostly).
9. APOHANTM
Lack of awareness of the advantages of equity
Absence of an organized equity market
Risk fear of hurdle in business growth appetite
SMEs taken as insignificant & risky segment for prestigious
M&A advisory companies
Lack of investor community access
Too much negative advertising of business alliance failures
Confusion in choice of growth & management control
Requirement of disclosure of critical business information
Selling business – stigma notion
Hectic documentation & information collection
Integrity of accounts
Poor confidence or hope for getting equity
Unsuitable legal form of business
No independent directors & stakeholders
Insufficient deal preparation
Reliance on audit & tax professionals for M&A work
Lack of time with SME management
Complex chain of brokers & no direct engagement with M&A
consultants
No single window M&A solution companies for SMEs in the
market
M&A communication is difficult & complex
Notion of inferior side
Higher transaction cost
Resistance for issuing consulting mandate
No appreciation of time-frame
Unreasonable expectation of valuation
Unclear equity contract conditions
The misconceptions are due technical background, lack of exposure & incorrect interpretations of
observations in the market. Start-ups get investment because they come with clean slate.
Why deals don’t happen much in SMBs?
Reason 2: Misconceptions about equity funding
10. APOHANTM
Smaller holding in a large, growing entity should be preferred over large holding of a small, stagnant entity
Difference of opinion on current valuation is insignificant compared to future gain in total valuation
Business growth is a dream of every businessperson
Internal accruals are often not sufficient to fuel growth dreams
Organic growth is slow, painful & uncertain
Benefits of synergy are absent in organic growth
Attachment of control even if competent partner is available is more for psychological satisfaction
A wise management would choose growth over control
The very purpose corporate structure is growth through capital participation
Dilution of control may provide financial expertise for a technocrat
Relationship with a rich entity may come handy in crisis
Investment contracts can be designed to address many control expectations & concerns
Complexity doesn’t make a professional reason to avoid M&A route
Delegation can be done at market cost level & not control improves life quality
Dilemma between growth & control preferences of the promoters leads to delays in decision
making, too hard bargain of valuation & unreasonable, unusual conditions of contracts
resulting in failure.
Why deals don’t happen much in SMBs?
Reason 3: Dilemma between ownership & control
11. APOHANTM
These brokers shouldn’t be taken as M&A consultants!!!
They don’t know M&A process details and may reveal your M&A intent to wrong entities. A company rumoured
to be sold risks business relations
They don’t know many investors & even if they know, no professional investor invests crores of rupees on their
personal recommendation.
They make difficult getting an investor as the investor requires direct mandate from the business/seller to the
M&A consultants.
Investor gets put-off by higher brokerage charges as they are ultimately paid by the company.
Brokers increase cost of acquisition of finance without much contribution in deal making, documentation, trust
building,
They delay M&A closure as it takes them a lot of time to make an agreement, decide payment sharing, etc as
they don’t do this full time.
They accept any terms & conditions & that is why they are wrongly perceived as very lucrative M&A.
A decent business deal broker should charge a nominal fixed referral fee. In no case, it should get a sole, direct, exclusive
consulting mandate. The success of M&A deal requires all necessary knowledge of strategy & finance, not a bit more
knowledge than the technocrat promoters. The number of people claiming M&A capability, without having it, is many times
more.
This is the most prominent reason for most deal failures in India.
Why deals don’t happen much in SMBs?
Reason 4: Non-M&A Brokers spoil the deal
12. APOHANTM
An investor IS there if…
◦ the management has a record of financial
integrity;
◦ the company has sound competence in its
technology, products, services, markets &
competition & the trends in them
◦ There is a priced demand for the products that
can create sustainable profits
◦ There is in place or can be put in place marketing
capability & marketing infrastructure
◦ There is possibility of returns on investment in
proportion of risks
◦ The offer to be made to the investor is
reasonable, rational.
◦ There is readiness to undergo the rigorous
M&A process documentation.
No investor invests crores of rupees (millions of USD) because they merely KNOW the M&A advisors like us.
An investment is always based on the intrinsic business merit alone! Investor network is a secondary aspect
of a deal, core focus should be value proposition.
No decent company in M&A consulting has any problem of investor network.
Business & Investor
◦ Doing business is very complex & difficult & doing
financial investment is relatively very easy.
◦ The number of eligible businesses is very low & the
number of eligible investor is very high.
◦ Typically, the investment requirement of a business is
relatively low.
◦ The ticket size of investment of many investors is very
high.
◦ There is a lot of money chasing a very few good
opportunities.
◦ Investible money is not a rare commodity in the world.
◦ The alternative investment opportunities very less
lucrative & potent.
◦ Businessmen think investors are rare because all the life
they were looking only for clients, not investors.
Why deals don’t happen much in SMBs?
Reason 5: Focus on investor network than business merit
13. APOHANTM
The Beginning:
Excessive trust & confidence
Partnerships not designed for any
possible failure
Very good spirits in the beginning
High degree of cooperation needed
to succeed
Not much wealth in the business
Hardly anything to fight for or fight
about
Hardly any complex aspects known
Business is simple in size, form and
nature.
No pre-written explicit written
documentation felt needed
Treatment of all the aspects through a relationship contract in the beginning is the solution!
Your problem, in most likelihood, wouldn’t be in the never before category in the corporate history!
The Interval:
Wealth, reputation, assets,
profits, rights, people
Duties, obligations, liabilities,
risks,
Stress, egos, complex
communications, events,
Issues handled randomly,
casually, haphazardly
Partners are hesitant to open
negotiations
Tendency to retain benefits &
pass on the liabilities
No management of future
complexities
The End:
Influence of new entrants
Difference of opinion is taken as
opposition
Disagreement on sharing scope &
benefits
Disagreement of role, control &
business decisions
Violation of implicit clauses by
one party
Formal end of relation, loss of
synergies
Confusion among stakeholders
Competing entity in market
Litigations, arbitrations
Why deals don’t happen much in SMBs?
Reason 6: Poor Contracts-Unreasonable expectations & offers
14. APOHANTM
1. Brokers appointed by SMEs as M&A consultants
2. No knowledge of equity funding market & process
3. Misconceptions about equity
4. No financial model, no investment schedule
5. No deal structure
6. No financial contract
7. No clear offer
8. No 360 degree expertise – MBA strategy, MBA finance, MBA marketing, Sector expert, Accounting
expert, Taxation Expert, Secretarial expert, Business lawyer, Valuation expert
9. No access to Big 4 M&A consultants
10. No communication infrastructure
11. No network of investors
12. No internal documents
13. No transaction documents
3/21/2021 APOHAN CORPORATE CONSULTANTS 14
Summary of all important reasons for “Deal Failure”
Apart from intrinsic merit, the M&A industry procedures must be followed.
The preparedness is necessary because money is a commodity everyone wants. Investors don’t have
time & capacity to know who is who, to process each offer. This results in rejection of many deserving
investment offers.
16. APOHANTM
Consultant
Appointment Phase
• Awareness &
education on equity
• NDA (Business -
Apohan)
• Client information
form
• Counselling
• T1 B1 T2 B2 process
• Consulting proposal
• Consulting contract
Inception Phase
• Problem/Aspiration
detailing
• Profile of seller
• Timeline & budget
for process
• Study of business &
internal documents
• Study of strategic
options
• Selection of deal
structure
• Inception
report/CIM
• Future business
plan
• Financial model &
valuation
Investor
Identification Phase
• Desired profile of
investor
• Investor selection
criteria
• Shortlist of
investors
• Preparation of
teaser
• Invitation of interest
from prospective
investors
• NDA (business &
investor)
• Mobilization for
data room
• Investor’s due-
diligence
• Plant visit
Detailing Phase
• Term-sheet
• Financial
negotiations
• Commercial
negotiations
• Appointment of
compliance
professionals: CS,
CA, lawyer,
statutory valuer
• Selection of non-
strategic experts:
Engineering, market
• Seller’s detailed
due-diligence
• Modifications to
term-sheet
Closure Phase
• Draft investment
contract
• Price & contractual
negotiations
• Corporate process
• Creation of escrow
account
• Execution of
investment contract
• Fund transfer
• Payment of success
fees to consultants
Integration phase
• Handholding by
consultants
• Secretarial
compliances
• Accounting
compliances
• Taxation
compliances
• FEMA compliances
• Business specific
compliances
• Integration of
businesses
• Achievement of
objectives of the
transaction
6-Phase Equity Funding Transaction Process
The equity funding process is lengthy but worth the reward!!!
It also a risky process and that is why it fails at the hands of the inexperienced consultants & brokers for 99 times out of 100 in
SMEs. However, depending upon comfort between the parties & quality of consultants, it may happen quicker & correct.
17. APOHANTM
Deal Structure: Permutations & Combinations
Businessman or CXO is supposed to know objectives & subjective boundaries. M&A
advisors need to select appropriate transaction as the same has huge implications
towards meeting strategic objective, process, time, compliances, cost & certainty.
M&A-
It is a loose term for all strategic transactions in the industry.
The stakes are high. Frequency is less. Role of external experts is high.
At the core there are only two things: Financial model for valuation, A transaction specific legal contract
The Variants of M&A Space:
Schemes, Arrangements, Compromises, Restructuring, Corporate restructuring, Financial Restructuring, Business
Restructuring, Group Restructuring, Asset restructuring, Issue, Allotment, Placement, Block Deals, IPO, ADR, GDR,
FPO,FDI, ODI, DVRs, Convertibles, ESOPs, Options, Joint Venture, Inorganic Growth, Turnaround, Amalgamations,
Acquisitions, Takeovers, Spin-offs, Revivals, Combinations, Mergers, Combinations, Dormancy, Closures, Deregistration,
Dissolutions, Liquidations, Winding-up, …
Corporate Control : M&A Fibonacci Numbers-
0%, 5%, 10%, 24-25-26%, 49-50-51%, 74-75-76%, 90%, 100% ,
18. APOHANTM
Risk: Study of Internal (Operational) Documentation
CORPORATE FUNCTIONS
Group/ Corporate structure
Shareholder relations
BOD performance
Investor/bank relations
Strategic management
Mergers & acquisitions
Business alliances, JVs
Corporate management
Corporate governance
Risk management
TECHNICAL FUNCTIONS
Project plan
Project management
Certifications
Supplier development
Inbound logistics
Production, manufacturing
Operations & Maintenance
Quality management
Marketing
Business development & sales
Distribution channel
Research & development
SUPPORT FUNCTIONS
Administration
Human resources
IT – HW, NW, SW, SM
Financing
Financial management
(Business) Investment
Legal
Knowledge management
Compliances
Public relations
CSR
Industry memberships
There are around 375 “types” of documents possible in a common business depending upon the complexity &
scale. Expending many resources, time, energy, hope & going to advanced stage of deal without
communicating “key make or break information” is too common.
Contact Apohan to get this list arranged by department/function, ready it & be funding-ready.
19. APOHANTM
New M&A Transaction Deliverables by Consultants
(Critical to Deal Success & even completion)
1. Consulting proposal, agreement
2. Inception report
3. Client presentation
4. Profile of client
5. Profile of target company/investor
6. Teaser, Pitch book
7. Information memorandum
8. Data sheet
9. Business plan
10. Schedule of investment requirement
11. Financial model
12. Amendments in MOA/AOA
13. Board resolutions
14. Advertisements for online media
15. Advertisements for physical media
16. Mutual NDA
17. Investor presentation
18. Investor proposal analysis report
19. Investor’s due diligence report
20. Valuation reports – 4 types at the
minimum
21. Document list of data room
22. New documents & reports for specific
needs
23. Term-sheet
24. Business Transfer agreement
25. Corporate documents
26. Legal documents
27. Disclosure schedule
28. Due diligence agency appointments
29. Due-diligence report
30. Handholding report
You must ask the prospective consultants about their ability & experience in preparation of a huge number of
new documents & communications (deliverables) before discussing price.
The deal is not going to happen in the absence of these even if (& even if competing) investors with huge
funds are contacting you.
20. APOHANTM
Funding Transaction Timeframe
SN Milestones Work description Month
s
1 Consulting
contract
NDA, M&A advisory contract. T0
2 Inception
report
Objectives, Options,
Company profile, Target
profile
T1 = T0+
0.5
3 Shortlist of
investors
Prospecting & marketing,
teaser, presentation,
screening
T2 = T0+
1
4 Plant visit Mutual NDA, plant visit T3 = T0+
1.5
5 Study of key
document
Business plan, Financial
model, valuation.
T4 = T0+
2
6 Approvals Internal approvals on both
the sides, statutory approvals
T5 = T0+
2.5
SN Milestones Work description Months
7 Term sheet Preliminary offer, LOI, Term
sheet
T6 = T0+ 3
8 Due diligence Due diligence of seller, buyer T7 = T0+ 3.5
9 Draft
contract
Disclosure schedule, draft
M&A contract
T8 = T0+ 4
10 Final Contract Review, legal vetting,
negotiations & signing of
M&A contract
T9 = T8+ 2 to
5
11 Funds Disbursement of funds,
consideration
T10 = T9+ 0.5
12 Merger
Integration
Corporate process,
accounting/ taxation,
compliances, filing,
reporting, closure, etc.
T11 = T8+ 1
M&A process takes around 6-9months on an average & hence must be planned well
in advance.
21. APOHANTM
Providing for all transaction Costs
Major Costs:
Brokers - Save 100% of it or pay nominal finder fee.
M&A consultants – Major fees is success based
Due diligence professionals – Internal staff and buyer can take care of this
ROC fees – Depends upon face value of additional capital
Stamp duty – Varies from state to state
Nominal costs:
Company secretary – Corporate process charges
Chartered accountants, Accounting – Consolidation of statements
Chartered accountants, Taxation – Consolidation of statements
Business lawyers – Court, NCLT, Approval, contracts
Valuation expert – Value for tax & compliance purposes
Technical expert – May not be needed.
Miscellaneous Costs:
Approvals, Taxes, Contingency
Taxes, ROC fees, stamp duty, M&A Consultant’s success fees are major costs!
Transparency in information sharing & clarity of documentation decide these costs!!
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Managing Confidentiality
1. Types
1. Consultant to Consultant
2. Consultant to principal
3. Principal to Principal - Mutual
2. Impacts
1. Information & competition
2. Information & valuation
3. Employees & M&A
4. Non-circumvention
5. Pseudo-Broker risk
6. Documents
1. NDA
2. Mutual NDA
3. NCND
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Make sure that critical business information doesn’t land in the hands of competitors as many
unprofessional “professionals” not from M&A industry want to make something for themselves from
the deal.
Sign an NDA before sharing critical information.
Genuine brokers increase speed of transaction, ingenuine stop it!
23. APOHANTM
Business Decision Makers Involved
Persons/Entities
1) Promoters, shareholders
2) Chairman, Managing Director, CEO
3) Executive/non-executive directors
4) Independent directors
5) Resolution professionals
6) Heads of departments, CXOs
7) Lenders & investors
8) Trustees, nominees & guarantors
9) Key contractual clients / suppliers
10) Key decision makers & equivalent people
11) Mentors & influencers
For M&A/strategic transaction, people of business
vision, loyalty, expertise, authority, experience are
required to be part of decision making & execution
process.
Compliance professionals may be finance
professional, but CXOs/promoters are better
decision makers in these matters.
Unnecessary influences affecting consulting &
M&A deals in India as businessmen treat
themselves as having poor knowledge of
transaction decision making. There is no better
decision maker than an owner!
24. APOHANTM
Counselling before M&A Consulting
Subject What it means? Why it is required?
M&A counselling Advise on objectives, key decisions, process,
preparedness
On job learning in M&A may cost heavily to
business.
Strategic Finance
Counselling
To explore several options of financing a
business
To avoid NPA, dissolution & loss of
reputation due to default
Corporate Management
Counselling
To evolve a path for control, ownership &
governance matters
To avoid complicated stakeholder disputes
& absence of harmony.
Business Strategy
Consulting
To plan business growth, to realize a
businessperson’s dream
To organize company, to tread a calculated
path
Investor Counselling We counsel investors & HNIs for investment in
private limited business.
To get better returns & control in
management
Without systematic counselling, a business would not get proper orientation of this
world. It would take around 3-4 months to take M&A transaction decision which may
be found incorrect (in-terms of original scope of work) later.
25. APOHANTM
Investors & Consultants
Risk appetite, Investor considerations, Types of investors,
Types of consultants, Importance of pre-transaction
counselling
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26. APOHANTM
Investor World: Risks & Attitudes
Investor attitudes
Defensive
Conservative
Moderate
Balanced
Growth
High growth
Aggressive
The lower returns from safe investment avenues cause huge shifts in investment preferences of the investors.
For medium & mid-size businesses, it is more about risk perception than fundamental business risk which can be
lessened by proper
Risk types
Opportunity risk – Cash
Inflation rate risk – Liquid fund
Interest rate risk – ST/LT Debt
Default risk – Unsecured debt
Exchange rate risk – FDI/FII
Country risk – FII/FDI
Regulatory risk – All
Political risk – All
Force Majeure - All
Market risk – Equity
Consulting risk – SME equity
Perception risk – SME equity
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List of Aspects
RISK OF BUSINESS
MANAGEMENT QUALITY ASPECT
LIQUIDITY ASPECT
TERM ASPECT
CONTROL ASPECT
ENTRY PROCESS
SECTOR & LOCATION ASPECT
TICKET SIZE ASPECT
POTENTIAL/VALUATION & OFFER ASPECTS
CONTRACTUAL ASPECTS
An Equity Investor: Aspects In Financing A Private Business
A business is supposed to rush after any investor. Just the way businesses are so different from each
other, so are the investors & investments.
Businessmen/CXOs run after clients (for marketing/BD/sales) all their life, not investors. They know how
to sell products/service/works, not how to sell a business (even if they are owners, shareholders, etc)!
The fundamental principle governing
investment is risk-return combination
of the opportunity vis-à-vis other
avenues.
Equity investment is made based
merit, not on inflexible rules. Investors
can’t be too vague telling only ROE or
too specific detailing all needs. For
them it is an gradual discovery of an
opportunity.
28. APOHANTM
Types Of
Financial
Investors
• Friends, relatives & family:
• Sweat equity (executive directors and key professionals):
• ESOPs (employees):
• Seed investors:
• Angle investors:
• Simple agreement for future equity (SAFE) investors:
• The unknown, unmet general citizen investor (Crowdfunding):
• Venture capital fund (VC Investors):
• Private equity fund (PE investors):
• Family offices (The rich family investors):
• High net worth individual (HNI) Investors:
• Non-resident Indian (NRI) Investors:
• Asset Management Companies (Mutual Funds):
• The various taxpayers as Investors:
• Investment trusts as Investors (REITs & InvITs):
• Investment bankers as the Investors:
• Qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) as Investors:
• NBFC core investment company (CIC) Investor:
• Hedge Fund Investors:
• Sovereign wealth fund (SWF):
• Pension Funds
• Fund of Funds:
• Alternative investment funds (AIF):
• Foreign direct investor (FDI):
Types of Investors
Strategic investors are businesses looking
to invest into other related or diversified
businesses. They objective could be a
permanent engagement & they
understand any degree of technically
complex target business. They see value in
synergies than in bargain.
Financial investors are not businesses, but
funds or entities of various types. Their
term-aspect is 3-5-10-20 yrs, have a fixed
expectation of ROE, have a contour of
preferences, high risk appetite, lower
technical knowledge, lower willingness to
manage operations. They do hard bargain
(when business doesn’t know how to)
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1. Significant say in general meetings for the same amount
2. Involves position on BOD for an investors
3. Direct control of SME management
4. Negotiable investment contract with the existing promoters
5. Synergies of technical competencies of promoters & financial competencies of investors
6. Visibility of SME operational, marketing & financial affairs, events & trends
7. Lower compliance costs & procedures
8. Lower corporate/manufacturing overhead costs
9. Effective management, transformational change is easy
10. Efficient financial performance
11. Lower valuation than equivalent listed company based on multiples
12. Higher scope of growth & expansion on a lower base
Why to Invest in an SME than a Blue-chip Company?
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The intrinsic fundamental business risk is same for a listed company & an SME.
Why is then a listed company preferred over an SME by investors? –> Perception Risk !!!
30. APOHANTM
Transactions
Goods Services
Business Services
Business Consulting
Management
Consulting
Strategic Consulting
Growth / Turnaround Financial Excellence Corporate Development
Compliance Consulting Regular Management
Operational Excellence?
Technical
consulting
Non-consulting
services
Public services
Works
Consulting World
BROKERS
The perspective of certified,
chartered, authorized, registered, etc
consultants is from with their
statutory framework which they must
comply.
The strategic consultant are optional.
They are involved with top
management of the business in the
four types of services at the bottom.
In our subjective opinion, compliance
is a secondary aspect of the strategic
vision of a company.
31. APOHANTM
Market Segments in M&A Consulting
Large strategic consulting MNCs, Big 4 Consulting companies
Target: Large “operator” companies, blue chip companies, large cap companies, government
Investment banks & merchant banks (Boutique firms)
Target: Investors, large cap companies, large ticket size, high complexity, etc
Integrated M&A professional advisory companies
Target: Compliances of transactions
Large firms (firm or individuals certified) with very high specialization in a domain
Target: Sub-consulting from above on legal, tax, etc matters, compliances
Companies (non-compliance, not registered with SEBI/RBI/IBBI etc)
Target: “Parts” of technical, marketing, strategic, transaction advisory
Local compliance firms
Target: “Success fees” in small deals, finder fees in large deals
India has a very large number of a very high quality M&A professionals to meets all the needs.
But there are no players who remain longer for SME/Mid size deals due to relative attractiveness
in terms of efforts & (success &) margins.
There is total absence of end-to-end custom services at the bottom of the pyramid.
32. APOHANTM
M&A Consulting: Business Side Checks
Broker are logically hired by M&A advisors, not businesses. First carry out this check with
approaching parties.
Sign NDA before sharing documents
Get elaborate scope of work & exclusions in a written proposal from the consultants
Add the cost of work excluded in comparison
See the terms & conditions of consulting proposal.
See the solution (initial deal structure) proposed
Appoint a committee of dedicated senior people to look into engagement.
Multiply = Probability of getting expected deal * ability of consultants.
Compute total cost of transaction to the existing shareholders/owners.
The implications of transactions are much higher than the transaction cost, hence
financial quote should take second seat.
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1. Market, growth, marketing infrastructure, client network and marketing vision – Go/NoGo
2. Technical, technological and operational merit, visibility of profits, USPs – 80% weight
3. Clarity of equity funding objectives, management maturity, reasonability
4. Past financial performance ( potential for stressed funding) – Justifiable claims
5. Financial integrity, passion of the promoters/directors – Extremely Crucial
6. Financial viability of business & identification/communication of all risks & mistakes
7. Existence of all internal documentation to support the claims, merits, appeals
8. Readiness of quality transaction documentation by M&A professionals
9. Readiness to (& knowledge about) undergo the rigorous M&A process
10. Practical expectation of the M&A time-frame (3 to 9 months)
11. Provision for the total M&A transaction costs
12. Focus on value addition (growth & turnaround) in future over fight for present valuation
13. Rationality and reasonability of the valuation/contract terms to the investor
14. Proper representation, communication, follow-up & stakeholder management
15. Experienced, capable & widely networked M&A consultants
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Equity Funding Success Factors
The last aspect (network) is worked on first in SMEs & mid-size companies making it a drain
on corporate resources, time, money, consultants, etc.
Consultants are supposed to represent the businessman’s / CXO’s confidence of being an
attractive investment opportunity is expected to be represented to the investors.
34. APOHANTM
About Apohan
Service Portfolio, Digital Platform, Consulting approach, USPs, Typical scope,
Exclusions, Payment terms, Experience & credentials, Sectors of service &
Director Profile/Management, General & legal information
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35. APOHANTM
Apohan Service Portfolio
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• Equity funding, M&A, Slump sale, Share transactions, Sell-side /Buy-side
advisory, Growth funding, Business turnaround, Financial restructuring, FDI,
ODI
Transaction Advisory
• Business model, Project model, Bid model, Capital structure, Dividend policy,
Financial policies, Debt contracts, Strategic financial contracts, financial
performance improvement, Strategic finance training for directors
Financial Advisory
• Group structure, Formative & constitutional matters, Ownership & control
related matters, Performance appraisal of directors, Corporate transactions,
Corporate policies, Business alliance, Succession planning,
Corporate
Management Advisory
• General business strategy, Business restructuring, New project strategy, Bid
advisory for PPP/EPC/PMC/AMC or Supply tenders, Risk advisory, Strategic
contracts, JVs, India entry strategy, Franchisees, Leases, etc
Business Strategy
Advisory
Counselling services:
1. For businesses on strategy/options to avail equity finance &
2. For investors on how to make safe, documented & remunerative investment in a Pvt. Ltd. company.
36. APOHANTM
Services: Strategic Transactions
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Business Transactions
Strategic transactions Capex Transactions
Operational
Transactions
1. Sale/purchase of strategic assets (or slump sale)
2. Sale of shares or securities
3. Transactions with existing stakeholders (buyback,
Rights issue, Bonus issue, capital withdrawal)
4. Private placement, Preferential allotments
5. Issue of instrument, bonds, debentures
6. External Commercial Borrowing (ECB)
7. IPO, SME exchange
8. FDI
9. ADR, GDR
10. Liquidation, recovery
11. Mergers and acquisitions, demergers
12. Business restructuring, financial restructuring
13. Joint ventures
14. Succession planning
15. Management outsourcing
16. Financial & operating leasing
17. License, royalty, , franchise, sub-contracting
18. Project bidding, PPP, EPC, PMC, AMC, etc.
37. APOHANTM
Allied Services: Business Strategy:
Choose a Potent Business Path
◦ Formulation of business philosophy, vision, missions, etc
◦ Formulation of the short-term, mid-term & long-term objectives of the company
◦ Formulation of central strategic management department, its constitution & mandate
◦ Preparation of strategic business plan with surveys, DPR, costing
◦ Certifications, registrations, memberships, associations
◦ Business alliances & JVs
◦ Preparation of contract structure between stakeholders
◦ Preparation of flexible, custom financial model with sensitivities & scenarios
◦ Preparation of top level strategy for each department boundaries of roles of departments
◦ KRAs and performance incentive sharing mechanism between departments
◦ Preparation of corporate policies
◦ Preparation of organization chart, departmental SOPs
All of this needn’t be done at cost of operations, but someone somewhere must be
spending time on these matters to avoid long-run repentance!
39. APOHANTM
Allied Services: Corporate Management:
Provide Robust Corporate Structure
◦ Constitutional
◦ Group structure, timely change of legal form
◦ Objectives, MOA, AOA
◦ Promoters, shareholders, investors, lenders
◦ Shareholding agreements
◦ Entry, exit, dilution philosophy
◦ Proper allocation of rights, assignments
◦ Organization structure
◦ Watch on control & ownership
◦ Board of directors
◦ Performance oriented selection
◦ Rights, duties, incentives, penalties
◦ Mechanism for performance evaluation
◦ Training for performance management
Existence & quality of proper legal form, associations, internal stakeholder contracts
leads to harmony & effectiveness of the leadership.
◦ Corporate governance
◦ Regular consultation with experienced CS
◦ Professional conduct of directors
◦ Induction of independent directors
◦ MOC, SEBI, compliances
◦ Investor relations & communications
◦ Corporate policies
◦ Disclosures, filings, reporting, mechanisms
◦ Assessment of M&A need
◦ Watch on capital structure
◦ CSR
◦ Registrations, Memberships
◦ Company/product/process certifications
◦ Compliance of industry standards
◦ Memberships of industry associations
40. APOHANTM
Our approach in SME/ Mid-size Transaction Advisory
1) Spread the awareness among promoters on equity funding in all
business forums
2) Approach the business or receive inward communication
3) Understand the problem or aspiration of business in layman’s
language
4) Remove all the misconceptions of the business at business
development stage
5) Preparation of a rough investment requirement schedule
6) Educate the business of the consulting process
7) Educate the business on M&A transaction structure & process
8) Remove doubts & satisfy queries through counselling sessions
9) Inform the current gaps in the success of the transaction
10) Represent their interests in the investor world in their language
Our approach (T1, B1, T2, B2) is specifically tailor made for highly efficient & cost-effective
screening of quality businesses that lack only money (or something that is only due to lack
of money).
T1 B1 T2 B2 Approach
T1 - Technical interaction 1:
Discussion on overall investibility of the
business w/o regard to consulting interests
B1 – Business Development 1:
Discussion on Apohan consulting process
T2 – Technical interaction 2:
Discussion of screened business on the
reasonability of terms of transaction
B2 – Business development 2:
Consulting proposal & contract
41. APOHANTM
Apohan: Services USPs & Differentiators
Engagement with Apohan means a businessperson has got
Additional legs, hands, hearts, minds, brains & souls!
SN Feature Typical Industry Practice Our Practice
1 Custom Solutions Buy what we have to offer We offer what the business exactly needs rather
than what we have
2 Implementation Report is the end Recommendations that are implemented
3 Flexible scope of work Fixed, rigid scope of work Dynamic, objective oriented scope
4 End-to-end solution Multiple conflicting agencies All agencies are taken care of centrally
5 Handholding No relationship after last milestone Handholding for understanding new system
6 Long-term
engagement
Assignment specific engagement Multiple engagements to realize all potential
7 Counselling No personal touch Special care of individual needs, company culture
8 Risk sharing No relation with results Risk sharing by substantial revenues linked to
results
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Typical Scope of Work For Apohan
1. Understanding the objectives of business
2. Identification of areas of interests
3. Screening of target investors
4. Selection of the target investor
5. Structuring of association with target
6. Financial models and contracts
7. Negotiations & Conclusions of deals
8. Assistance in due-diligence & documentation
9. Handholding
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Apohan shall carry out end-to-end customized work right from strategy formulation to target
identification to acquisition (or any other strategic transaction) to post-transaction assistance.
Transaction Deliverables
1. Inception report
2. Profile sheet of desired target
3. Advertising communication
4. Technology event reports
5. Report on shortlisted targets
6. Deal structure & due diligence
7. Business valuation (Model)
8. Investment contract
9. Merger integration report
43. APOHANTM
Excluded Services
◦ Company secretarial work: Incorporations, filing, reporting, statutory payments, etc.
◦ Chartered accounting work: Accounting, taxation, reporting, filings, compliances, etc.
◦ Legal work: Filing cases, representation to NCLT/courts, etc.
◦ Cost accounting: Compliance
◦ Marketing advisory: Surveys, strategy, market growth, profit sharing, etc
◦ Technical work: Feasibility, technical DPR, technical appraisal
◦ Approvals: Getting approvals, permits, licenses, etc from government bodies
◦ Certifications: Private or public certifications such as IEC, GSTN, ISO, CMM
◦ Non-strategic HR, administration, IT, etc advisory
◦ Business services not related to M&A, strategic financing, business strategy, corporate
We don’t (directly or indirectly) provide statutory, certified, regulated,
chartered, compliance, etc services in the transaction process or otherwise.
44. APOHANTM
About Payments & Consulting Contract
Price Proposals – short-term engagement
• Mobilization fees: These will a fixed fees. They
shall be without an advance payment BG.
• Milestone based fees: These fees shall be based
on delivery key milestones in the course of the
assignment in place of fixed monthly payments.
• Success fees: M&A advisory in basically loss-
making looking at the heavy cost structure. Upon
closure of the deal contract, a major fraction of
the total fees is paid in the form success fees.
• Time incentive: The client pays an agreed sum for
closing the deal before the agreed latest time.
• Value incentive: The client pays for more than
expected realization of value for having found a
partner who sees more synergies, etc.
Key Contractual Terms
• Exclusivity: The mandates becomes exclusive after
the client signs NDA with an investor of his/her
choice.
• No guarantee of success: Despite several merits
of the business or the promoters, despite M&A
advisory abilities of Apohan, a deal may not go
through in negotiations. Both the buy side & sell
side expectations of value & terms are beyond
control of an M&A consultant.
• No statutory role: Apohan does not carry out
statutory roles of CS, CA, lawyers, valuers, etc
• Documentation & decision support
Apohan is not a mere consulting company but also it believes in its recommendations & action plans.
Hence success fees & profit sharing would be the key elements in the long-term engagements.
45. APOHANTM
Apohan Experience / Assignments
SN Current assignments Rev. Cr Amt
1 Strategic sale/dilution of a Pune
based solar & industrial inverter
company
20 12
2 Financial turnaround of a state
if the art food processing
company
440 70
3 Financial turnaround of metal
forging company.
70 16
4 Advisory for corporate
management for a leading
cutting tool company
8 NA
SN Apohan upcoming assignments
2 Equity funding of a 1200 cr Goa based world-class
tourism project on PPP
4 Sell-side advisory to a specialty scientific mobile app
platform start-up for 70 cr funding
5 Equity funding for a natural gas compression system start-
up
6 Buy side advisory for Pune’s largest metal company to
acquire a casting company.
7 Buy side advisory for Mumbai based investor to acquire a
biodiesel company.
Apohan has interacted with 900 SMEs in India for their funding & strategic aspirations & problems.
Currently we have funnel of 139 companies despite COVID pandemic’s severe effect on our own start-up.
46. APOHANTM
Web portal, Mobile App, Software enabled with AI
End-to-end responsibility of funding/transaction delivery
Integration of a large number of businesses, investors & professionals
Investibility assessment in detail to screen quality of inquiries, risks
Automatic generation of deal structure inputs
Cloud for client document uploading & classification
SW interface to use standard base template documents
Web meetings of stakeholders
Confidentiality, security & access management
Online M&A event, M&A professionals, organizations, resources databases
Social media linking to spread contents
Knowledge resources, videos for education & removal of misconceptions
Technology training to staff for to use bespoke SW, plaform, company IT infrastructure
Training modules for internal & external low-cost resources for M&A delivery
Apohan Fintech Platform (Under Launch)
Existing fintech platforms are only for connecting without any delivery responsible.
Apohan aspires to be the Uber of SMEs/Mid-size companies for around 3000 strategic time-based & success based
types of services but with an essential own fleet.
Strategic requirements can’t be standardized to the extent transport or any business service can be!
47. APOHANTM
Sectors: Whom We Serve
Infrastructure
Construction
Real estate
Roads & highways
Ports
Airports
Inland waterways
Water
Waste
Mining
Energy
Power
Telecom
Environment
Social Infrastructure
Education
Hospitality
Tourism
Health
Commodities
Steel
Metals & alloys
Chemicals
Cement
Coal
Petroleum
Natural gas
Engineering
Civil
Mechanical
Electrical
Electronics
Instruments
Chemicals
Manufacturing
Automotive
Ship building
Air craft
Media & Entertainment
Publication
Film
Music
Event Management
Art industry
Information Technology
HW & networking
Software design
Web & app design
ERP
Call centres
BPO
Digital media
Social Media
Internet
Trade
Home Trade
Import
Export
Entrepot
Business Services
Communication
Banking
Insurance
Transport
Logistics
Distribution channel
R&D
Equity research
Surveys
Data analysis
Agricultural
Agriculture
Fishing
Dairy
Poultry
Horticulture
Wood
Tobacco
Paper
Other
Pharmaceuticals
Defence
Municipal services
Diversified
EPC
PPP
Other
Our services are not intended for a specific sector or industry, a specific product or service!
New Age Technologies
Blockchain
Artificial intelligence
Robotics
Automation
Drones
Big Data
Cloud
3D Printing
Immersive reality
Holography
Nanotechnology
Advanced materials
Electric vehicles
Hydrogen cells
Internet of Things
Renewables
Waste to power
Biomass to power
Genetics
FinTech EduTech
Collaborative Tech
Quantum computing
Smart cities
New age screens
LBS
Connectivity
48. APOHANTM
Business Structures: Whom We Serve
Legal types
• Proprietorships
• Partnerships
• Private limited companies
• Public limited companies
• Listed companies
• Societies
• Cooperative societies
• Trusts
• NGOs
• Government
• Multilateral agencies
Buy Side Advisory
• Angel investors
• PE funds
• VC funds
• Lenders
• Banks
• NBFCs
• FDI
• FII
• HNIs
• Indian international businesses
• Foreign MNCs
• Home traders
• International traders
Place in value chain
• Project companies
• Manufacturers
• Traders
• Wholesalers
• Franchisees
• Retailers
• Any other business model
Our services are not intended for a specific type of legal entity or business structure.
The revenue (potential) should be more than 25 Cr per annum
49. APOHANTM
Screening & Filtering Criteria – Prospective Clients
Desired Average Business Size
1. Revenue*: Rs.50 cr.
2. Equity investment requirement:
Rs. 25 cr.
Bottom threshold size
1. Revenue of Rs.25 cr.
2. Equity investment requirement:
Rs. 10 cr.
The M&A process is rigorous, hectic & lengthy. It involves role of many types consultants.
It is very documentation heavy. Small organizations, typically, as per observations, don’t
have appetite for these transactions.
*Acceptable Parameters
1. Current revenue
2. Recent Peak revenue
3. Target revenue in next 2-3 years
4. Capital block
5. Net worth
We don’t do end-to-end debt finance advisory; we provide strategic advisory on debt contracts & all the
strategic financial management related consultancy.
50. APOHANTM
Profile: 22 years of work experience in the M&A, financial,
corporate, strategic role with the most prestigious companies of
India.
Companies: Worked in RIL, GAIL, CRISIL,
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Isolux Corsan, Delhi Integrated
Multi-Modal Transit (DIMTS), Bluestream Infrastructure
Sectors: Engineering, chemical & other process, construction,
energy, transport, information technology, social infrastructure
Domains & functions: Expert in M&A, corporate management,
financial models, business contracts, business strategy,
transaction advisory, business alliance management, contracts,
finance, banking, greenfield projects, CEO training, etc.
Graduation: BE (Mechanical) from College of Engineering,
Pune (COEP), 1998 Batch
PG: MBA (International Business) from Indian Institute of
Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi, 2003 Batch
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunjoshiapohan
Arun Joshi
An M&A advisor with
professional experience of
22 years across industries,
sectors, projects,
geographies in the reputed
companies in India.
Profile: MD & Director, Delivery
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Apohan has a team of MBAs, CAs, company secretaries, engineers, technocrats, business lawyers,
and a huge network of freelancers, experts, sub-consultants and certified professionals to provide
integrated M&A services.
Our largest asset is our network of investors & our approach in taking a proposal to them!
51. APOHANTM
Profile: Developed and implemented strategies to drive profitability
and sales. Led teams for businesses and revenues; marketing and
growth strategies. Led a team of up-to 200+ members. International
experience of leading assignments and business in Australia, Africa &
UAE.
Companies: Worked with Onicra Credit Rating Agency, AVTEG Pvt Ltd,
Hope Technologies Ltd, Supertech Solutions Ltd, Fifth Quadrant
Designs etc.
Sectors: MSME, information technology, Social Impact & Livelihood,
Banking, Credit Rating, Infrastructure and Facility Management,
Education and Training
Domains & functions: Sales & marketing, business management,
business strategy, Network advisory, business alliance management,
Cross Cultural engagements, Project Management, Go To Market,
Opportunity Identification, Start up, etc.
Graduation: BSc (Electronics) and PGD (Industrial Instrumentation
and Information Technology) from Center for Electronics Design and
Technology of India, GOI (CEDTI), 1996 Batch
PG: MBA (Marketing and Financial Management) 1998 Batch
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaileshkw
Shailesh Waghmare
20 years of experience of impacting
organizations through strategic
decisions across M&A / equity
funding, Financial Services,
Consulting Services, MSME
advisory, IT & ITes, Education
Management, social impact &
livelihood and Marketing &
Management Consulting.
Profile: Director, Strategy & BD
Represented Organisations on various forums as a speaker, member of panel discussion, faculty at
workshops organised by CII, IIA, FICCI, NSIC, ACMA, NSDC, AIMA, UNDP, etc.
52. APOHANTM
Apohan: General Information
Description Details
Name ApohanTM Corporate Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
Legal form Private limited company (ROC Pune)
Nature of business M&A, Strategic Financing, Corporate Management, Business Strategy advisory
Incorporation year 2018
Corporate office
Office no. 11, 1st floor, Shriram Complex, Model Colony Rd., Shivajinagar, Pune, Maharashtra,
India – 411016 ; Landmark: Fergusson College
Registered Office C-302, Omega Heritage, DSK Vishwa Road, Dhayari, Pune, Maharashtra, India -411041
Website https://www.apohanconsultants.com
Link of HQ location: https://goo.gl/maps/v6r82ax14Uy
Membership Maratha Chamber of Commerce, Pune
Bank details
Apohan Corporate Consultants Private Limited |IDFC First Bank, Kalyani Nagar Branch, Pune|
|Account Number: 10032009434| IFSC Code: IDFB0041358| MICR: 411751009
CIN U74999PN2018PTC180122
PAN/TAB/GSTN AARCA5583G / PNEA29043A / 27AARCA5583G1Z7
Start-up Certificate No.: DIPP46253
Udyog Aadhar MH26D0228386
Ongoing /planned… ISO, SEBI Registration for Investment Advisor