Our Team
SR Capital Advisory is promoted by Rajendar. We adopt associate model to execute our assignments. The team of associates include AT Krishnakumar, Rags Raghavan, S Narayanaswamy, Umesh Biyani, CA Jothilingam & Gautham Rajendar. The TEAM's combined experience in investment and commercial banking is over 100 man-years.
Rajendra Rasu
- Rajendra Rasu, the founder and CEO of SR Capital Advisory, has been advising top business houses across India for nearly 3 decades. He has been synonymous with high value transactions and is often sought after for special-situation advisory, asset reconstruction and structured fund raising.
- Under his guidance SR has expanded their bouquet of services from project financing, equity placement, special situation funding to mergers and acquisitions to international clients, tax credit investments and new sunrise business sector identification and investments across the globe.
- Over the past two decades SR has acquired capabilities to represent clients’ interest and meet their requirements in any part of the world across acquisitions of companies, assets, international listing, fund raising from overseas markets and project promotions.
Rags Raghavan
Rags Raghavan, an economics honours graduate from the University of Madras and a Management Postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta has had a long and wide spanning career with ANZ Grindlays Bank, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch International Bank.
He is the founder/Director of Spatikha Pte Ltd (SPL). SPL is incorporated in Singapore and is engaged in the provision of various financial advisory services. SPL is an active partner of SRFC and is convinced that this joint approach can provide significant customer benefits in the future.
- Merrill Lynch International Bank, Singapore, Executive Director of Investments June 2010 – Feb 2012
- Deutsche Bank AG, Thailand Chief Country Officer and Head of Global Markets Oct 1997 - Feb 2009
- Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore Regional Treasurer May 1993 - September 1997
- Deutsche Bank (Asia Pacific) Training Centre Pte Ltd. , Singapore 1990 – 1993
- ANZ Grindlays Bank, Bombay, India 1980 – 1990
Had the overall responsibility for the activities of the Bank in Thailand. Managed all the trading and sales activities of the bank and was responsible for all the relationships with the Ministry of Finance, Bank of Thailand and the Securities Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Concurrently, was assigned the responsibility of setting up and staffing the Global Markets operation in Shanghai. Had extensive dealings with the Chinese authorities and senior banking and corporate clients.
Responsible for balance sheet, liquidity and risk management for all of the Bank’s branches in Asia including South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Hongkong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. The total balance sheet at that stage was approx DEM 20 bio.
DB’s Treasury successfully weathered several crises during the period and was able to manage interest rate and liquidity risks extremely well across the whole of Asia.
Was responsible for training activities in the areas of Treasury and Corporate Finance. Participants included Deutsche Bank regional staff as well as external financial institutions and corporates.
Controlled the Bank’s lending relationship with a portfolio of about 25 companies whose total exposure amounted to USD 175 Mio.
A.T. Krishnakumar
- Has had a long stint with M/s ICICI Premier Financial Institution of the country, in the Projects & Operations Department and has represented several Governmental & Consultative Committees.
- Enjoys a good rapport with the economic, political & industrial forums of the country.
- Recipient of the award for "Outstanding Contribution To Development Economics" from Dr.Manmohan Singh, Honourable Prime Minister, India.
- An MBA from the Bajaj University - Bombay.
Umesh Biyani
Umesh is our network partner based out of Mumbai and is the founder of Delta Advisors Private Limited, a full fledged firm engaged in providing corporate advisory and fund raising services and legal compliance services to corporate.
Umesh has over 20 years' experience in advising and assisting corporate in raising funds and on financial and operational restructuring aiding their growth. He has led and undertaken financial restructuring for several companies involving aggregate debt of over Rs. 12,000 crore and has raised funds for their successful turnaround. Amongst others, Umesh has assisted two asset reconstruction companies in raising equity, and has arranged/ placed large quantum of debt papers for corporates.
Umesh as part of the team at asset reconstruction company, has invested in stress assets and designed and implemented resolution strategies for successful exit. He has managed investments of over Rs. 1,200 crore across diverse sectors, such as power, steel, cement, etc. As part of the process, he has also taken possession of and managed day-to-day operations of various assisted companies for successful resolution.
In past, Umesh has worked with organizations such as Arcil, International Asset Reconstruction Company Private Limited, Avendus Capital, Deloitte India, BDO India, SREI and others.
CA Jothilingam
- He has also been involved in the audit of major nationalized banks and a foreign bank. He has an in-depth knowledge of the trends and practices in the Banking Industry. He further has an extensive exposure to the Indian Accounting and Auditing Standards.
- He has a good exposure to business valuations and has handled share valuation assignments for MNCs. He has also been involved in preparation of project reports for various small and medium size enterprises and has assisted them in getting their projects financed from nationalised banks.
CA Jothilingam, an auditor by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since Nov 2006. He has been involved in the audit of major corporate and non-corporate clients in industries such as textiles, engineering, publishing, paper, travel, software, healthcare etc.
Gautham Rajendar
- Economics Graduate from Leeds Business School, UK
- Got good networking with the top professionals in Stressed Asset Resolution and Asset Reconstruction space
- Good experience in Asset Reconstruction space.
Clients facing difficult and unique situations have found SR meeting their needs always with innovative solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of financial advice do you provide?
We provide advisory services on project promotion, term loan and working capital funding, equity funding, special situation funding and non performing asset resolution. We also provide NCLT &IBC advisory. In addition, we advise on acquisition of companies, assets, international collaborations, listing and project promotion.
We have received notice under IBC. Could you assist us to resolve it?
Yes. We could offer our advisory services to your company.
We are a company with profitable operation. We wish to sell our business. Could you find a buyer?
We are experienced in this domain. If your company’s operation and financials are attractive enough, we could do that.
Our company is looking for a strategic partner. Could you identify one?
Both strategic investment and partnership are possible. We could work with you in executing the strategic tie-up.
What is your international listing service?
If your company wish to establish itself at Singapore or London and get listed in the stock exchanges there, we could provide the required advisory services.
