V Jayasankar Profile
Jayasankar is Senior Executive Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets at Kotak Investment Banking.
Jayasankar has been with the Kotak Mahindra Group for 15 years. He has worked in diverse areas within the investment bank encompassing Private Equity, Capital Markets and M&A. Jayasankar has advised a number of clients including M&M, Apollo Hospitals, HCL Technologies, Hughes Software, Patni and iflex. He has also advised several marquee private equity and buy-out funds helping them identify and invest in some of India’s leading corporates as well as advising on divestures.
Jayasankar initially worked in the Capital Markets group. Thereafter, he moved on to set up the Technology sector practice at Kotak between the years 2000 and 2005, during which period he helped to establish Kotak as the dominant player. Subsequently, Jayasankar was responsible for setting up the Financial Sponsors Group in 2006 and has since played an instrumental role in Kotak emerging as a leading player in the private equity business. In 2010, Jayasankar was appointed to lead the Equity Capital Markets team.
Jayasankar is an Engineer (IIT, Madras) and MBA (IIM, Bangalore). He has a total work experience of over 19 years in financial advisory.
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