Investment Banks

Japan's Mizuho Group to acquire over 60% stake in Avendus Capital from KKR

Mizuho Financial Group will buy a controlling stake in Avendus Capital via its securities arm, marking its latest push to expand investment banking and corporate finance operations in India

Mizuho Financial to buy KKR-backed Avendus Capital for expansion in India

Japan's third-largest bank got agreement from a major shareholder to purchase 61.6 per cent of the Mumbai-based firm

Goldman Sachs profit jumps 37% as bankers cash in on strong deal activity

Goldman announced last month it will take a stake worth as much as $1 billion in T Rowe Price, as part of a partnership to tap the asset manager's retirement money for alternative assets

Wall Street banks may lean on Indian GCCs, boost hiring after H-1B shakeup

Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee can push Wall Street banks to hire more Indian engineers and rely heavily on GCCs in India, according to a report by Bloomberg

Savy Infra sets SME IPO price band at ₹114-120/share, issue to open Jul 21

Gandhinagar-based EPC player Savy Infra & Logistics on Sunday said it has fixed the price band at Rs 114-120 per equity share for its Rs 70 crore initial public offer, which will open for public subscription on July 21. The initial public offering (IPO) will conclude on July 23, and the company's shares will be listed on the NSE Emerge, Savy Infra & Logistics said in a statement. The IPO is entirely a fresh issue of up to 58.32 lakh equity shares. The net proceeds from the public issue worth Rs 49 crore will be utilised for funding working capital requirements and a balance for general corporate purposes. "The capital raised will support our working capital needs and enable us to scale both the EPC and logistics divisions efficiently," Savy Infra & Logistics Chairman and MD Tilak Mundhra said. Savy Infra and Logistics is engaged in the business of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) and logistics, with a focus on infrastructure projects. The company also ...

We want to be a people-first organisation: Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti

Engineers need to think about the problem first and not the solution, says Argenti

Top Indian dealmakers earn 37% more than Singapore, Hong Kong peers

India is seeing a boost from a rebound in investments even as global trade uncertainties weigh on the country's broader outlook

JPMorgan bars incoming analysts from job-hopping in first 18 months

The move comes as Wall Street banks push back against private equity firms poaching junior talent through accelerated hiring cycles

Dhanacharya Advisors LLP: Raising Capital with Conviction, Building Businesses with Belief - The Rise of India's Boutique Investment Banking Powerhouse

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HSBC plans to unveil $1.5 billion of annual cost savings on February 19

HSBC said that it plans to wind down its M&A and some equities businesses in Europe and the Americas, accelerating a shift towards Asia in its biggest retrenchment from investment banking

Pernod Ricard considers sale of GH Mumm to focus on premium labels

The company has been selective in who it sells assets to and a sale may not happen, the person cautioned

JPMorgan names Nitin Maheshwari, Ravi Shankar as co-heads of India bank

Newly-appointed co-heads of investment banking for India will report to Paul Uren, head of investment banking for Asia Pacific, and to Kaustubh Kulkarni, senior country officer for JPMorgan in India

Goldman Sachs profit surges as investment banking, trading fuel Q4 growth

Profit rose to $4.11 billion, or $11.95 per diluted share, for the three months ended Dec. 31, compared with $2.01 billion, or $5.48 per diluted share, a year ago

India's investment banking fees reach $1.3 bn in 2024, Kotak Mahindra leads

Kotak Mahindra Bank took the top position for overall investment banking fee ranking in India with a total of US$92.8 million, accounting for 7.2% wallet share of India's investment banking fee pool

Investment bank DAM Capital Advisors gets Sebi's nod to launch IPO

Investment bank DAM Capital Advisors has received Sebi's go ahead to float an initial public offering (IPO), an update with the markets regulator showed on Tuesday. The proposed IPO is solely an offer-for-sale (OFS) of 3.2 crore equity shares, with no fresh issue component, according to the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP). Those selling shares in the OFS are promoter Dharmesh Anil Mehta, investors Multiples Alternate Asset Management, RBL Bank, Easyaccess Financial Services and Narotam Satyanarayan Sekhsaria. Since the entire issue is an OFS, all the proceeds from the IPO will go directly to the selling shareholder, rather than the company. DAM Capital Advisors, which filed preliminary papers with Sebi in September, obtained the regulator's observations on December 4, the update showed. In Sebi's parlance, obtaining the observations means its go ahead to launch the public issue. In its draft papers, the company stated that it plans to go public in a bid to achieve the benefit

Barclays profit jumps 18%, British bank reports pre-tax profit in Q3

The British bank's pretax profit for the July-September period was 2.2 billion pounds ($2.85 billion), up from 1.9 billion a year ago and higher than the average of analysts' forecasts of 2 billion

Morgan Stanley's Q3 profit beats estimates on investment banking windfall

Its investment banking revenue jumped 56% in the third quarter. Competitors Goldman Sachs had posted a 20% surge in fees, while JPMorgan Chase saw a 31% gain

BofA Q3 profit beats expectation on investment banking, trading strength

BofA's investment banking fees jumped 18 per cent to $1.4 billion, compared with a year earlier, bolstered by a rebound in activity in recent months

Sebi probes six local investment banks over handling of small IPOs

The investigations follow efforts by Sebi to warn investors about the dangers of investing in some small businesses as well as plans for tighter rules for such IPOS

Real estate firm Arkade Developers set to open Rs 410 cr IPO on Sep 16

Real estate developer Arkade Developers Ltd is set to float its Rs 410-crore initial public offering (IPO) on September 16. The initial share sale will conclude on September 19, and the bidding for anchor investors will open for a day on September 13, according to the red herring prospectus (RHP). The maiden public issue is entirely through a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 410 crore with no offer-for-sale (OFS) component. The company has already raised Rs 20 crore through a pre-IPO placement round. Proceeds from the issue will be used for the development of the company's ongoing as well as upcoming projects and funding the acquisition of future real estate projects and general corporate purposes. Arkade Developers is a fast-growing real estate development company with a significant presence in Mumbai. As of July 31, 2023, it has developed 1.80 million square feet of residential property, including through partnership entities in which Arkade holds the majority stake. Betwe