Danesh is a career investment banker with more than 14 years of experience, having worked with multiple global investment banks across geographies. He has worked on complex transactions and has experience across deal origination, private equity advisory, M&A execution, transaction structuring and negotiations.

Danesh started his career with Citibank’s investment banking division where he was part of the industrials sector advisory team and worked on M&A transactions valued at over $1Bn. He subsequently moved to Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) investment banking division in Mumbai as part of their diversified advisory group and was soon offered a position to work with their global team in London, UK. While at RBS, Danesh was part of the four-member team that executed the acquisition of Continental AG by Schaeffler Group, an ~EUR 13Bn leveraged buyout (LBO) transaction. The third largest LBO transaction in the auto component sector in Europe at the time.

Post his stint in UK, Danesh moved back to India and co-founded EDMA Capital Advisors which focused on lending proprietary capital to the unorganized mid-market segment. Later he went on to head the Canadian operations for IBI Advisors, a New York based boutique and advised prominent clients such as Bell Canada and Kluane Partners. Prior to joining BlackSoil Group, Danesh was heading the TMT and Healthcare verticals for AsiaCap Investment Advisors an entity started by the Ex India leadership team of Standard Chartered Bank.

Within BlackSoil, Danesh is responsible for fostering key collaborative relationships with companies, investors and intermediaries and plays a vital role in structuring as well as negotiating investment opportunities. Danesh has an MBA from Ivey Business School, Canada.

Chirag has over 10 years of experience in Investing, fund raising, business development, business restructuring, investor relations, structuring and negotiation.

At BlackSoil, he is responsible for due diligence, structuring and closure of secured credit transactions. Chirag is also responsible for ongoing portfolio monitoring and overviewing credit quality through consistent checks on business performance and continuous engagement with portfolio companies. He has assisted in the execution and management of over 20 investments amounting to INR 200 Crores and seen exits worth INR 55 Crores from 7 investments within the portfolio of the BlackSoil Group.

In addition to providing support on debt transactions, Chirag is also responsible in managing key relationships with funds, investors and intermediaries and playing a key role in fund raising activities for the Banks, NBFC & Realty fund (SEBI Registered AIF-Category II). He is handling investor relations comprising a mix of retail HNI investors, family offices and institutional investors.

He also has been involved in setting up a BlackSoil Realty Fund – I (SEBI Registered AIF-Category II) with a primary objective of investing in residential projects in Mumbai MMR, Bangalore & Hyderabad.

Outside BlackSoil Group, he has been associated with CRISIL Ltd, Systematix Capital and Negen Capital and has been involved in the investment value chain including sourcing, evaluation, negotiation and monitoring of deals across various sectors space and successfully advised & closed deals valuing ~INR 130 Crores.

Chirag has an MBA (Finance) and a bachelor’s in commerce from N.M College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai University.

Anuj has over 15 years of experience in matters relating to Accounting, Taxation and Audit.

At BlackSoil, he is responsible for Accounting, Taxation and Audit for all the BlackSoil group entities and the AIFs. Apart from above, regular reporting to management by way of MIS on matters relating to financials, taxation and managing treasury function on day to day basis. Also being in-charge of Audit committee, holds, conducts and highlights matters to the board on quarterly basis. Holding quarterly meetings with consultants/internal auditors and obtaining compliance and internal audit reports from them, respectively.

Outside BlackSoil, he has been associated with real estate developers such as Kalpataru Group and The Phoenix Mills for over 12 years collectively, primarily responsible for Accounting/Auditing functions.

Anuj is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Commerce Graduate from Mumbai University and holds a Diploma in IFRS from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Sandeep has over 7 years of experience in business evaluation / underwriting, strategy formulation and financial analysis in various sectors.

In his current role at BlackSoil, he has worked across investments of BlackSoil Realty Fund – I and Walton Street BlackSoil Real Estate Debt Fund – I and assisted the management team during deal origination, negotiation, disbursement and post investment process. He leads a team of analysts and supports the management team in all aspects of transactions from origination till execution such as commercial negotiation, due diligence, quantitative and qualitative evaluation, site visits, preparation of investment committee materials and transaction documentation. Post investment, he closely evaluates portfolio performance and articulates key findings and trends to the management team.

During his tenure at BlackSoil, he has executed more than 12 transactions amounting to ~INR 100 Crores and exited 7 transactions worth INR 60 Crores

Prior to BlackSoil he worked with U.S. based investment research and financial reporting company and assisted big Hedge Funds of U.S. and Europe, including Citadel and UBS, encompassing Banking, Insurance, Real Estate and Assets Management sectors.

Sandeep is a CFA Charter holder since 2011 with Masters in Financial Analysis from IUT complemented by an honours degree in Commerce from University of Kalyani, specializing in Accounting and Business Finance

Rishap has over 7 years in the field of Retail/Corporate credit, corporate finance, real estate investment management, investment banking, strategic business planning and growth advisory.

In his current role he is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, underwriting new investment opportunities negotiating, conducting due diligence and structuring the transaction including review of documentation. He also regularly does monthly monitoring of business performance via regular interaction with the portfolio companies and also facilitates in smooth exit process for the portfolio company.

He has executed over 15 deals in the amounting to over INR 350 Crores and exited over 10 deals amounting to INR 280 Crores. Rishap plays a pivotal role in introducing and firm wide implementation of new IT initiatives in the BlackSoil Group to improve productivity and efficiency within departments.

He is a qualified Bachelor of Engineering from University of Mumbai in 2010 and MBA (Finance) from the IMT Nagpur in 2014.

Nitesh has over 10 years of experience in Investing, Investment Banking, Due Diligence, Business Development and Financial Consulting roles.

At BlackSoil, he over sees end-to-end transaction execution including preliminary screening of the prospective borrowers, due diligence and development of investment notes. He undertakes negotiation and closure of deal documentation and portfolio monitoring during the deal lifecycle as well as development of internal processes & credit underwriting tool and scorecard for screening and evaluation of companies and maintain the deals databases. Ha has transaction experience in SaaS, Education & Healthcare at BlackSoil.

Prior to joining BlackSoil, Nitesh has worked at L&T Infrastructure, AsiaCap Investment Advisors, Choice Capital Advisors, Ernst and Young and Deloitte in various departments such as investment banking, structured finance, financial DD etc.

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant by profession.

Surabhi is a thorough finance professional with diverse experience of over 8 years in venture debt, structured finance, distressed assets, and technology.

At BlackSoil, she monitors the venture debt and structured portfolio worth ~INR 300 Cr. She undertakes periodic business reviews, risk management and identification/conversion of add-on debt opportunities. She has also developed and installed a risk framework for mitigation of deal specific risk and better reporting.

Surabhi also works on deal documentation incl. definitive agreements in conjunction with legal counsel, with a focus on business and commercial terms such as rate, term, covenants, warrants and default mitigation measures. Her strategic assignments include formulating and drafting company’s risk policy as per RBI guidelines as well as developing the wireframe for internal data management and portfolio monitoring tech products.

Prior to joining BlackSoil, Surabhi has worked at Indostar Capital, Caspian Impact Investment Advisors, Arcil & Accenture.

She is an MBA holder.

Ronak is a knowledgeable Investment professional with experience of over 7 years in Investing, Business Development & Restructuring, Negotiation, Investment Banking and Portfolio Management.

At BlackSoil, Ronak has facilitated more than ~INR 80 Crs of secured credit investments across 10 transactions across sectors like Consumer, IoT, SaaS & InsureTech. During his tenure, he has successfully overseen complete exits for 3 transactions amounting to ~INR 22 Crs across different sectors.

Ronak handles the complete life cycle of transactions including, underwriting & overseeing the exit for secured credit transactions. He is also responsible for ongoing portfolio monitoring & overviewing credit quality through consistent checks on business performance & continuous engagement with portfolio companies.

Prior to joining BlackSoil, he has worked at Lightbox India Advisors & Innergize Solutions covering investment banking, consulting & venture capital.

Ronak is a CFA Charter holder.

Ms. Krittika Sampat has over 4 years of experience in the field of Investment Management, handling legal and secretarial compliances for transactions of the Alternative Investment Funds (AIF’s).

She looks after compliance with SEBI, Sponsors and Trustees of the Fund for various quarterly and yearly reporting. She prepares and provides for regulatory/statutory reporting, investor reports and other ad-hoc report to the relevant authorities, directors and clients. She has been recently appointed as the Company Secretary of BlackSoil Capital Private Limited earlier this year.

During her tenure with BlackSoil team, she has worked upon multiple secretarial and regulatory compliances for BlackSoil Group with respect to the Companies Act, 2013, SEBI, RBI including maintenance of secretarial records such Notice, Agenda, Minutes of the Investment Committee Meetings, Board Meetings, AGM’s, EGM’s.

She is a qualified Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) with Bachelor of Commerce from University of Mumbai (B.Com) and Bachelor of Law (L.L.B.) from the University of Mumbai.