Kotak

Chetan Savla is Senior Executive Director & Head of the Corporate Advisory Group at Kotak Investment Banking. Chetan is part of the leadership team with oversight responsibility for origination and execution of all IB products across sectors. He additionally spearheads a number of large client relationships.

Chetan joined the Kotak Mahindra Group in 1994 and during this time, has worked extensively on equity capital market and advisory issuances. Chetan has worked on the development of some of the most path breaking innovations in the Indian capital markets including the introduction of book building in public offers and the introduction of Qualified Institutional Placements in India. He has a wealth of capital market execution experience in managing public offers, QIPs and GDR offerings. Chetan has also worked as a sector banker for M&A transactions in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare space.

Chetan has been involved in several marquee capital market transactions for companies such as Maruti Suzuki, Hughes Software, ONGC, GMR Infrastructure, Godrej Industries, Mahindra Gesco, PTC India, Power Grid Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, Nicholas Piramal, Cadila Healthcare, HDIL and many others. All these transactions have helped place Kotak Investment Banking at the forefront of equity league tables in India. He has also worked on offshore listings of Indian corporates through GDR issues such as Cipla, LIC Housing and Apollo Hospitals.

Chetan has extensively worked on several capital market transactions by the Government of India such as Maruti, ONGC, IBP, Power Finance Corporation and Dredging Corporation. In addition, he has extensive healthcare sector experience, having worked on transactions for Zydus Cadila, Divis Laboratories, Biocon, Apollo Hospitals, Nicholas Piramal, Cipla, Fortis Healthcare and USV.

Prior to joining the Kotak Mahindra Group, Chetan worked with ICI India Ltd.

Chetan is a 1991 post graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

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