The stars of India’s financial markets
India’s Mr finance
Uday Kotak: a visionary leader
Behind India’s financial rainmakers sits a tag-team of rising stars. Most are still young and hungry for success, and each has a firm chosen institution.
Take Vallabh Bhansali, the chairman of Enam Financial Consultants. Bhansali has been cutting deals since co-founding his company 23 years ago, but 2007 has been a breakthrough year for the Mumbai-based firm. Like Hemendra Kothari at DSP Merrill Lynch, Bhansali and Enam focus on large and mid-sized initial public offerings. In July alone, the company co-arranged three Mumbai IPOs worth a total of $760 million, for Housing Development and Infrastructure, IVR-Prime Urban Developers and Central Bank of India. This pushed it up to fifth in Dealogic’s ECM rankings for 2007 year-to-date. Enam ranked ninth in...
