Gaurav Gupta

Gaurav started his working career with Arthur Andersen in May 1995 in the tax division. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Nov 1996. Thereafter Gaurav moved to the Corporate Finance Division in Arthur Andersen where he was part of the team that advised clients primarily on Mergers & Acquisitions and private equity fund raising. His clients included Pharma, media and IT services company.

Gaurav joined NM Rothschild Índia Private Limited in 2000 where as a Director he was responsible for building the Pharmaceutical, Media and Consumer practice. Rothschild was a relatively new franchise Índia and Gaurav was part of the team that was instrumental in building the practice to a market leading Mergers and acquisition firm in India. During his tenure at Rothschild, he advised Indian and international clients on some marquee mergers and acquisition transactions. This included the largest cross border acquisition by an Indian Pharma company, amongst the largest cross border acquisitions in the FMCG sector and several other transactions in media, IT services and healthcare.

Gaurav joined Lehman Brothers in 2006 as an Executive Director to head the Pharma, Telecom and Financial services business. Gaurav was amongst the early hires at Lehman when they were setting up their Índia business. At Lehman, Gaurav was responsible not only for Mergers and Acquisitions but also capital markets, fixed income transactions and principal investments. Post Nomura’s acquisition of Lehman business in 2008, Gaurav became part of Nomura continuing his sector responsibilities.

Gaurav joined Macquarie in 2010 as Managing Director and Índia Head of Macquarie Capital. At age 34 he was amongst the youngest Investment Banking Heads. Macquarie Capital was a relatively new franchise in India and Gaurav was instrumental in making it the leading Infrastructure and Real Estate advisory firm. At Macquarie, Gaurav was involved in the largest acquisition in the power sector, the largest fund raise in renewables, the first investment by a pension fund in the road sector in India, setting up the largest Residential Real Estate platform in India and several other marquee transactions. Macquarie Capital was consistently ranked as leading advisor for Infrastructure and Real Estate in India.

Gaurav joined the Adani Group in 2016 with a vision to build a financial services business platform. The Adani Group is India’s leading infrastructure conglomerates. The Group has a vision of ‘nation building’ and in keeping with this vision of nation building the plan to set up the financial services was conceptualized.