Rishi Agrawal is a Chartered Accountant with more than 18 years of professional experience and over 200 deal advisory engagements, spanning sell-side, buy-side and due diligence mandates across a range of industries in India and the Middle East.
He began his career with PwC India and spent more than ten years across PwC India and PwC Middle East. He subsequently worked with Deloitte India in deal advisory with a primary focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
During that period, he advised on buy-side and sell-side M&A processes for Fortune 1000 corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on issues arising across the deal continuum.
He has assisted growth-stage and early-stage companies in raising equity and private credit funding ranging from USD 5 million to USD 15 million from venture capital investors and family offices in sectors including insurance technology, waste management, travel, agricultural technology and consumer businesses.
At SBC, he leads the transaction advisory and corporate finance practice, serving clients from early-stage growth companies to mid-sized corporates across industries.
- Business model optimisation
- Cross-border project management
- Agriculture
- Consumer goods and services
- Financial services
- Investment management
- Tourism
- Transport
- Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
- Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
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