OUR PEOPLE
Abhijeet Shah
Founder & Structuring Specialist
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Abhijeet Shah is the Founder of Coortus and is a Structuring specialist. Abhijeet continues to work very closely with Promoters, Business families and large to mid-sized businesses/ companies on complex structurings, deals, negotiations.
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Abhijeet has over 15 years of core experience in Structurings and has worked on multiple large & complex structurings, M&As – from term sheet negotiations to closure of transactions. Abhijeet has also worked with multiple business families on ownership structures – domestic and cross-border, family settlement situations and succession plannings. Abhijeet has successfully implemented more 25 family ownership structures involving size of wealth, regulatory and cross border complexities.
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Abhijeet also possess strong expertise on global M&A and Structuring related laws.
Amit Dodani
Practice Head – Deals
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Amit Dodani is transaction advisory professional with deep knowledge in buy-side & sell-side advisory, value negotiation, financial and accounting due diligence,
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Amit has assisted clients on matters relating to transactions; be it buying/ selling of companies, determining the value of a business, doing due diligence, assisting clients prior to/ during due diligence by setting up data rooms, raising private equity finance and research
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Prior to Coortus, Amit worked with BDO International and Woodbridge International.
Amit Dodani
Partner – Deals
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Amit Dodani is transaction advisory professional with deep knowledge in buy-side & sell-side advisory, value negotiation, financial and accounting due diligence,
valuations, financial modelling and other management consulting services. -
Amit has assisted clients on matters relating to transactions; be it buying/ selling of companies, determining the value of a business, doing due diligence, assisting clients prior to/ during due diligence by setting up data rooms, raising private equity finance and research
requirements related to M&A transactions. -
Prior to Coortus, Amit worked with BDO International and Woodbridge International.
Pruthvi Mota
Partner – Valuations & Business Modelling
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Pruthvi Mota leads the valuation practice in Coortus Advisors. He is a Chartered Accountant (India) & Chartered Financial Analyst (USA) with more than a decade of core experience in the valuations field.
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His gamut of expertise covers deal valuations, portfolio valuations for funds, merger/demerger, litigation/ disputes valuations, intangible assets, ESOPs, financial instruments with complex options and valuation for regulatory purposes including IND-AS, Income Tax, FEMA, and Capital Market Regulations. He possesses in-depth knowledge of IFRS, US GAAP and IND AS reporting standards for valuations.
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He has been pivotal in advising the clients on value discovery of their businesses and corporations.
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He is an active speaker in leading forums on Valuation topics.
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Prior to Coortus, he was associated with BDO India for 8 years.
Per Hornung Pedersen
Managing Director, Coortus Advisors GmbH Germany
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Per Hornung Pedersen anchors our German/ European Practice as we believe strongly on the Indo-German Business Corridor. He brings 30+ years of international experience working as an executive and for the past decade as a professional Board member. His focus for the past 20 years has been the renewable sector with focus on strategy, business development and M&A.
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Per has been in the renewable energy sector since 2000 working in executive positions with leading global wind OEMs. Until mid 2004 as CFO with NEG Micon/Vestas, thereafter building the international organization for Suzlon, responsible for the world outside of India as CEO. From end 2007 to mid 2011 CEO of Repower in Hamburg Germany.
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Since mid 2011 working as independent director /non-executive director and advisor to various companies as: Senior Advisor to McKinsey, Senior Advisor Atrium Partners , Copenhagen. Senior Advisor MCF Corporate Finance Hamburg .
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Abdul Barrister
Partner -Structuring
• Abdul Barrister is a rank holding Chartered Accountant and bring over 13 years of expertise in M&A consulting, with a strong focus on Transaction Advisory, FEMA Advisory, group restructurings, and internal reorganisation's.
• He provides comprehensive support
throughout the restructuring process,
including stamp duty and real estate law
matters.
• Abdul has a broad client base, working
with both foreign and domestic clients
across a range of industries, including Real Estate, Pharmaceuticals, Automotive, Renewables, and IT/ITeS.
• His experience allows him to deliver end - to- end solutions tailored to each client's needs.
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Anirudha Jain
Partner -Structuring
• Anirudha Jain is a Chartered Accountant & Chartered Financial Analyst, USA with over 11 years of specialized experience in Mergers & Acquisitions. He brings expertise in executing concept - to - completion engagements across a wide range of strategic and financial transactions.
• His work spans transaction structuring, business and asset valuations, engagement with family offices and succession planning, negotiation
support and drafting of complex structuring
documents.
• Anirudha also has experience in handling
insolvency and bankruptcy advisory, guiding stakeholders through resolution processes under IBC and executing voluntary liquidations