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

Value : Undisclosed

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
November 2018

Digital lending – the next frontier for growth

In the financial year 2017-18, for the first time in history, personal loans constituted the highest share of bank loans. In fact, personal loans comprised about 96% of all new bank loans during FY18, with INR 2.34 trillion worth of disbursements in just the first 10 ½ months.

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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?

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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.

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Investment Banking
June 2018

India’s e-tail revolution to propel packaging industry

India’s e-tail revolution to propel packaging industry: As the e-retail market in India moves towards becoming the new reality, packaging manufacturers will increasingly need to tailor products for on and off the shelf.

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Investment Banking
October 2018

Search for the next Indicorn

The stars seemed all aligned for the birth of digital unicorns from India. Let’s call them the Indicorns.

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Investment Banking
June 2018

Indian flavours, fragrances and nutraceutical ingredient players to outgrow global peers

India’s specialty chemicals industry is currently valued at nearly USD 25 billion and expected to grow at 11% per annum to reach USD 39 billion by 2021.

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Investment Banking
May 2018

A taste of India’s renewable power: the storage slip between the cup and the lip

The renewable energy sector is poised for epochal changes, both in policy and implementation in the years to come.

Read Time: 4 minutes
Investment Banking
May 2018

Shifting winds – small towns are the next big frontier for apparel brands

There is a large, significant opportunity in tier 2 and tier 3 cities which no large retailer can afford to ignore.

Read Time: 3 minutes

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