Industrials

Investment Banking

Avendus Capital's Industrials vertical, services manufacturing businesses in raw materials and industrial components that integrate to create India’s manufacturing behemoth. The team consists of professionals with 50+ years of combined investment banking experience in manufacturing and related industries. One of the focus areas is specialty chemicals which is witnessing strong interest, driven by India’s low-cost manufacturing ecosystem and the progressively increasing culture of R&D and innovation.

Sub-Sectors in Focus

Our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory and private equity (PE) syndication services are recognized as amongst the best in these chosen sub-sectors.

  • Specialty chemicals
  • Automobile and automotive components
  • Packaging products
  • Capital goods
  • Flow control
  • Building materials
  • Industrial Automation
  • Power ancillaries 
  • Infrastructure ancillaries
  • Renewable energy
  • Industrial consumables

Led By

Koushik Bhattacharya

Director and Head, Industrials, Avendus Capital

Koushik Bhattacharya joined Avendus in 2010 and leads the Industrials vertical of the investment banking business. He has an overall experience of 10 years in investment banking, across capital markets, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity (PE) advisory, and is based in Mumbai.

 At Avendus, he is responsible for building relationships with entrepreneurs, corporate houses and global conglomerates, and advises them on M&A and PE transactions from origination to closure. He has been involved in publishing industry reports and knowledge papers which have garnered a lot of attention from industry participants and financial sponsors. Prior to joining Avendus, Koushik worked with the investment banking division of Enam Securities (now Axis Capital) where he was a part of their deal origination team covering life sciences and infrastructure sectors.

He holds an MBA degree from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad.

Transactions

Jun 2018

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Avendus Capital advises Eternis Fine Chemicals on the acquisition of Aims Impex Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2017

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Avendus Group advises OmniActive Health Technologies on its private equity and debt fund raising.
Jan 2017

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Avendus Finance provides structured capital to promoters of MSL to buy out significant minority stakeholders.
Investment Banking
June 2019

Investing in distress – A gold mine or land mine?

We are witnessing a once in a lifetime fire-sale of assets in India and what makes it exciting is that certain strategic assets can be acquired at a deep discount to its replacement value. Assets that have limited operational issues and are only financial distressed can make for a good acquisition.

Read Time: 6 minutes
Investment Banking
January 2019

How India's services sector is a perfect springboard for automation

Voice recognition software monitors quality of interaction between humans and the external world and has the ability to escalate matters and intervene in real time. Gone are the days where supervisors walked the aisles to troubleshoot.

Read Time: 4 minutes
Investment Banking
July 2019

The value in venture capital

India is going through one of its strongest funding cycles where founders are looking for more than just capital.

Read Time: 6 minutes
Investment Banking
December 2018

How can the auto-component industry survive the new emission norms challenge?

The Indian automotive industry is quickly gearing up for a major technology transformation owing to escalating environmental issues.

Read Time: 4 minutes
Investment Banking
November 2018

The landscape for larger, big-ticket M&A transactions in India

M&A transactions in India crossed USD 100 billion in 2018, the highest in last decade. What are the factors driving the large M&A deals?

Read Time: 7 minutes
Investment Banking
January 2019

Five trends that could fuel M&A activity in India

Let us try to put a perspective on the corporate trends that have evolved in our country spanning three generations of entrepreneurs since independence. In the post-independence era, the first-generation entrepreneurs in India seized the opportunity to build, whichever way they could.

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Investment Banking
March 2019

AWS Cloud Services: Adding thunder to cloud computing industry

Technology industry is growing faster than global GDP with tech firms leading the list of most highly-valued companies in financial markets across the world. Cloud computing is one of the secular macroeconomic trends driving this USD 3.8 trillion industry.

Read Time: 4 minutes
Investment Banking
February 2019

Building a sustainable, high-growth business through effective cost management

The practice of strategic cost management has been around for several decades, but only now is it starting to percolate into India’s rapidly expanding economic startup community; which, with over 5,200 start-ups, has emerged as the third-largest start-up ecosystem in the world.

Read Time: 8 minutes

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