“Providing Customised Corporate Finance Solutions’’
Aarayaa is a non-fund based investment bank focusing in the niche area of assisting companies in their investments in and out of India. We help Indian players in their effort to globalize their operation and foreign companies to enter into India. We provide a wide range of services ranging from finding acquisition targets to setting up operations in target jurisdiction, from fund raising to restructuring, valuation to tax planning of cross border investments.
Aarayaa has been ranked as one of the leading advisor’s in India in several league tables and has won several awards and recognition for the same.
Aarayaa is the exclusive Indian member of Corporate Financial International Network, a group of leading boutique investment banks specializing in cross-border acquisition, divestiture, capital raising, and related services. Comprising a select group of independent investment banks with established cross-border capabilities, Corporate Finance international focuses exclusively on middle market transaction with an average deal size approximately (€10 M to €200 M).The Client base of group affiliates includes family and entrepreneurially owned companies. The CFI was founded in 2006 to deliver best-in-class cross border M&A services to the middle market, CFI delivers more than a decade of international collaboration among its members, including the successful delivery of over 300 cross-border deals with an aggregate €19 billion of deal value since 2000.
Founder, Director
Raj Shroff
Founder, Director
Raj Shroff is the Founder and Director of Aarayaa Advisory Services. He has more than 2 decades of professional experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, joint ventures, international tax, merchant banking and valuations with being associated with closure of more than 100 deals. He is also Partner, Managing Director of The Corporate Finance International Group – India. He is also associated with V. B. Desai Financial Services Limited – a Category I merchant banker which has handled more than 100 public offerings. He is also registered under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) asRegistered Valuer (Securities or Financial Assets).
Prior to the founding Aarayaa, Raj was heading the globalisation practise at one of the leading law firms in India – Nishith Desai Associates.
He is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Certified Public Accountant from California, USA.
Raj is a visiting faculty at Government Law College. Raj has written numerous articles and is also a frequent speaker at various professional and trade association.
Advisor
Hoshi Deboo
Advisor
Hoshi Deboo is Founder and Managing Partner of Ahura Global Partners based in Singapore.
He has been a senior executive with over 35 years of US & Asia Pacific experience in growth and turnarounds across wide industry segments and with publicly listed and private companies. He advises and provides investment life cycle advisory services to middle market investors and companies and also co-invests. He assists companies and investors with deal screening, restructuring, reinvent business and M&A advisory to leverage over 3 decades of operating and funding experience in several industry segments.
Hoshi holds a B.TECH (HONS) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and a Master of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Director
Hemendra Shroff
Director
Hemendra has founded VBD Capital Advisors Pvt. Ltd. – specializing in debt syndication and distribution of insurance products.
Hemendra has been in financial services since 1994 working in organizations like Aarayaa Finstock Pvt. Ltd., V. B. Desai Financial Services Ltd. and Religare Capital Markets Ltd. He has significant experience in business development with strong client relationship and accessibility to various institutional investors. He leads in negotiating strategic alliances and debt structuring of transactions.