Vora Corporate Finance
Investment Bank and Financial Advisors
Mergers & Acquisitions
We are leading Investment Bank in Gujarat providing buy side and sell side M&A advisory and having extensive alliances across geographies.
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Private Equity
Private Equity, Venture Capital and IPO advisory for Companies, entrepreneurs and investors. We have excellent relationships with number of Indian and global funds.
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Debt Syndication
We help Raise Debt from PSU and private Banks, NBFCs, financial institutions and private Investors. We have expertise in structured transactions.
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Registered Valuers
Mr. Vora is a Registered Valuer (SFA) under IBBI. He does business valuations in transactions such as M&A, fund raising and preferential allotments.
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PE: Zomato raises fresh equity and prepares for IPO
Transaction: Zomato has raised $660 million in an investment round at the valuation of $3.9 billion. Tiger Global Management, Baillie Gifford, Luxor Capital, Kora Capital, Steadview, D1 Capital and Mirae Asset were the investors who participated in this round. On top...
Stock Markets Update December 2020
BSE Sensex went up by 8.46% in December 2020 to close at 47,751. Nifty 50 closed at 13,982, higher by 7.81% from 12,969 in November closing. Expectation of quick arrival of Covid-19 vaccines, slowing of Covid19 infections, abundant liquidity and expectation of...
Economic Update November 2020
Indian Economy is pulling out of Covid-19’s impact and recovering at a pace that beats most predictions as per RBI Report. Estimated GDP growth in Q3 is likely to be positive 0.1%. The manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) at 56.3 and 53.7...
IPO: Gland Pharma IPO subscribed 2.05 times
Hyderabad based Gland Pharma Ltd. is an injectable-focused company with a footprint in 60 countries. Company mainly operates in complex injectable under B2B model. The issue price of the stock was kept Rs. 1490 to Rs. 1500 per share at P/E of around 30. IPO was...
IPO: Equitas Small Finance Bank IPO listed at discount
Equitas Small Finance Bank is a small finance bank founded in 2007 as a microfinance lender, with headquarters in Chennai, India. It began banking in September 2016 after receiving RBI approval. The Issue price of IPO was Rs.33 at P/E ratio of around 13.5. Stock was...
Stock Markets Update November 2020
BSE Sensex went up by 11.45% in November 2020 to close at 44,150. Nifty 50 closed at 12,969 in November, higher by 11.40% from 39,614 in October closing. Expectation of quick arrival of Covid-19 vaccines, slowing of Covid19 infections, abundant liquidity, economic...
PE: Reliance Retail raises funds by diluting 10%
Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) completes fund raise Rs. 47,265 Crore for 10.09% stake in the company. RRVL replicated the speed with which it raised funds for JIO platform earlier in the year. Reliance Retail Ventures Limited is a subsidiary of Reliance...
PE: Biocon Biologics raises Rs.1125 Crore from Goldman Sachs
Biocon Ltd., a bio-pharmaceutical company, announced that the Board of its subsidiary Biocon Biologics Ltd (Biocon Biologics) has approved a Rs.1,125 Crore (approx. USD 150 million) fund raise from Goldman Sachs. As per the proposed terms, Goldman Sachs will be issued...
M&A: Manipal Hospitals to acquire Columbia Asia Hospitals in India
Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. announced that it will buy the Indian assets of Columbia Asia Hospital Group for around Rs.1800 Crore. Manipal will also absorb the debt of Columbia Asia of Rs.300 Crore. Manipal Hospitals is a multi-specialty healthcare providers...
M&A: Merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank with DBS
RBI announced a draft scheme for amalgamation of Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) and DBS India Ltd (DBIL), wholly owned subsidiary of DBS Singapore in November. DBS will infuse Rs. 2500 Crore into DBIL as and when the scheme is approved. DBS is a major Singapore based bank....
M&A and PE Key Deals November 2020
Read about Merger and Acquisition deals of Infosys acquiring Blue Acorn iCi and Flipkart buying stake in Aditya Birla Fashion as well as Private Equity deal of Razorpay Software raising funds to enter unicorn club. Razorpay Software Pvt. Ltd. enters unicorn club: ...
M&A and PE Key Deals October 2020
Read about Merger and Acquisition and Private Equity Key Deals of Byju’s raising funds and Softbank’s investment in Unacademy. Also read about Reliance Retail acquiring business from Future Group. Byju’s raises funds from Silver Lake and others: Private Equity fund...
Growth of Indian Capital Markets – ACAE Journal
I was invited by the ACAE Kolkata (Association of Corporate Advisers and Executives) to write about changing dynamics of Indian Capital Markets. The article is about brief understanding of Indian capital markets, recent developments and the way forward. Click here to...
Capital Market Update October 2020
Happy Diwali everyone! In this update, read about expectations of revival of the Indian economy and green shoots, IPOs of Route Mobile & Happiest Mind, fund raising by education startups Byju’s & Unacademy and Reliance Retail’s acquisitions from Future Group....
Capital Market Update September 2020
Read about fund raising by private banks through Qualified Institutional Placements (QIP), contraction in GDP and continued gains of stock markets in Capital Market updates published in September 2020 in Ahmedabad C.A. Journal. In Mergers & Acquisitions and...
Secondary Market Update Sep 2020
Read about fund raising by private banks through QIP, contraction in GDP and continued gains of stock markets in the secondary market update being published in Ahmedabad C.A. Journal. Click to Download PDF File
M&A and PE Key deals Sept 2020
Read on about a short M&A case study on how open offer of ABB power was triggered by the indirect acquisition and issue concerning the open offer and the conclusion of the same. Also read about the Reliance Retail acquiring stake in Netmeds and e-pharmacy market...
Capital Market Update August 2020
Read on about continued gains of stock market, rally in IT stocks, all time high Gold prices and improving investors sentiments in our capital market update. Key M&A and PE deals of August including that of Google's investment in RIL JIO, fund raising by Flipkart...
Capital Market Update July 2020
Read on about recent stock market rally and liquidity impact, post covid economic recovery and rational of RIL JIO and FB deal in our capital market update published in CA Association Journal. Click here to download the full article in PDF File.
Primary & Secondary Market Update Aug 2020
Economic Update: Monetary Policy committee of RBI met in 1st week of August and decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 4% and continue with the accommodative stance of the monetary policy while ensuring that the inflation remains within target of 4% in...
M&A and PE Key Deals August 2020
Private Equity key deals: Flipkart raised $1.2 billion from Wallmart led investor group: Flipkart group raised $1.2 billion from Wallmart led existing Investors in July valuing the company at $24.9 billion post money. Amount will be funded in two tranches in the...
Valuation Compliance in Indian Law
Valuation certificates for compliance are required under Companies Act 2013, Income Tax Act, SEBI Regulations and FEMA regulations in India. While earlier the Valuation service was primarily provided by the Chartered Accountants (CA) and Merchant Bankers (MB)....
Impact of Coronavirus on Capital markets and Economy
Summary: With a third of world under lockdown, the Coronavirus pandemic has now started to affect economy. We examine its impact on capital market activities like IPO, PE, M&A and global and Indian stock markets. IMF along with other think tanks expect that world...
Capital Markets Update February 2020
The first advance estimates (FAE) released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on January 7, 2020 placed India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for 2019-20 at 5.0 per cent. In its January 31 release, the NSO revised real GDP growth for 2018-19 to 6.1...
Capital Markets Update January 2020
2019 saw India’s GDP growth slowed down in light of IL&FS crisis and subdued global economy. Reserve Bank of India revised GDP growth to 5% for 2019-20 in its December policy from 6.1% in its October policy. The impact on capital markets was mixed as while the IPO...
Capital Markets Update December 2019
Indian Economic activity remained subdued in the month of November 2019. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth moderated to 4.5 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in Q2:2019-20, extending a sequential deceleration to the sixth consecutive quarter. Real GDP growth was weighed...
Capital Markets Update November 2019
RBI’s monetary policy committee maintained the accommodative stance and slashed the repo rate by 25 bps to 5.15% from 5.40% on 4th October 2019. The rate was earlier reduced by 35 basis points from 5.75% to 5.40% in August 2019. This is 5th consecutive rate cut by RBI...
Capital Market Update October 2019
This article was published by Journal of Chartered Accountants Association in the issue of October 2019. Link to Journal of Chartered Accountants Association, Ahmedabad: https://www.caa-ahm.org/JournalDetail.php Link to published...
Hostile takeovers and case of L&T Infotech and Mindtree
Summary L&T Infotech’s takeover of Mindtree Ltd. can be considered one of the first hostile takeover in Indian History. L&T acquired 21% stake in Mindtree from an investor and eventually took complete control over the software company’s board and management by...
Capital Markets Update July 2019
In wake of IL&FS and banking sector crisis the Indian economy is slowing down its pace primarily due to liquidity crunch. The estimated growth rate of economy has also been revised to 7% from 7.2% in April by RBI. The Indian economy has grown by 6.8 per cent in...
Fund Raising Strategies for Companies
This article was published by Journal of Chartered Accountants Association in the issue of July 19 and included in the list of useful articles by The Chartered Accountant, Journal of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in Dec 19. Link to Journal of...
Case Study Short Term Bank Loan ₹60 Crore
Summary An EPC company won a big project for installations of renewable power plant to be completed in 6 months’ time. Company had to raise funds immediately for successful completion but was constrained by weak financials. Our advisory helped the company raise...
Capital Market Update January 2021
The optimism around vaccines has led to gains in stock markets. Economic activity index (EAI) estimates real GDP growth of Q3: 2020-21 at 0.1 per cent. IPOs of Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited and Burger King India Limited came in the month of...
Capital Market Update December 2020
Indian economy is pulling out of Covid-19 impact. The stock markets have registered strong gains of over 10% in November due to hopes of quick vaccine, economic revival and abundant liquidity. IPOs of Equitas Small Finance Bank and Gland Pharma Limited came in...
Capital Market Update November 2020
Indian Economy performed above market expectations in Q3 at GDP growth rate of 0.1%. Optimism in markets have also continued in light of Covid vaccines. IPOs of Mrs. Bectors Food Specialities Limited and Burger King India Limited came in the month of December and were...