Private Equity Workshop at IIM Lucknow

With India’s Private Equity sector moving into the big league and fund sizes increasing dramatically, management graduates across the country have started showing keen interest in the subject. Keeping this in mind, IIM Lucknow organized one day workshop on Private Equity which helped the students gain insights into the nuances of Private Equity.

The workshop was conducted by Mr. Carlton Pereira, MD of Tano Capital Advisors, a PE Firm and Mr. Chittaranjan Kaul, MD of Executive Coaching Firm Sanvaad. Mr. Kaul, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, has previously worked with Bank of America for 16 years as an International Executive.

Mr. Kaul provided an overview of the Private Equity sector in India and made the students understand the motivation to study Private Equity as a course in a classroom. He also engaged the students in an interaction on the personal, societal, technical and organizational issues pertaining to Private equity.

Mr. Pereira provided a brief history of Private Equity sector and highlighted the important events over the last few decades which have provided the impetus for the PE sector to emerge. Mr. Pereira elaborated on the different types of Private Equity and the entire investment process in a Private Equity firm.

He also emphasized that with the strong global interest in the Indian market, the challenge is no longer about raising private equity funds, but how to extract value from the portfolio investments, turning the focus from financial capital to human capital.

Mr. Pereira discussed two live case studies and used them as examples to explain various Private Equity concepts to the students.

The talk was highly interactive in nature and more than 100 students attended the workshop. Due to their keen interest in the subject, IIM Lucknow has decided to conduct an academic course on Private Equity. The guest speakers Mr. Pereira and Mr. Kaul have agreed to organize this credit course in the Lucknow campus for the second year PGP students from this year.