Capitolium is a boutique investment bank formed with a focus on the mid-markets space in their capital raising journey. We are a team of seasoned finance professionals bringing in together an experience of 50+ years in raising debt, structured/distressed assets finance and private equity. Capitolium leverages its teams’ diverse professional qualifications (IIT B.Tech, M.B.A., CA, LL.B.) and experience across reputed companies like State Bank of India, YES Bank, Infosys, ICRA etc.
Company rests on its strong and professional leadership that has an in-depth understanding of key business drivers. Our team and management excels in domain knowledge and proven transaction execution capabilities. We have an well established network with leading private equity funds, banks and financial institutions.
Experienced professionals with 50+ years of cumulative experience in advising and serving clients in debt syndication and structured finance space.
Expertise in structuring and arranging debt capital at competitive rates.
Comprehensive understanding of the debt syndication process.
Clear understanding of the need of lenders across the spectrum from Banks to the high- yield AIFs.
Comprehensive knowledge of the lending norms and applicable regulations.
To be the catalyst of financial empowerment, guiding small and medium businesses toward success in a dynamic global economy.
Our debt syndication practice covers wide range of products to meet your short term as well as long term financing requirements. Our lender coverage includes PSUs/SFBs/Private Sector Banks, NBFCs in addition to Credit Opportunity AIFs. We work in close co-ordination by understanding and focusing on lenders' perspective/credit comfort and align the same with the borrowers requirements to stitch together a successful transaction. Our product coverage includes wide range of products: Corporate Finance including project finance, loan against property, general corporate finance backed by working capital and fixed assets. Working Capital Finance through CC / OD facility, working capital finance. Apart from normal banking products, we also help clients secure working capital term loans from NBFCs Trade Finance through supply chain finance, bill discounting, non-fund based facilities, finance against LC / BG
As part of our Private equity advisory practice, we offer a range of services like raising Growth Capital, Buy-out Funding, Mezzanine Financing, Pre-IPO financing, Bridge funding, etc. A timely, well-structured and customized fundraising can help companies in tapping compelling business opportunities, achieve growth potential and ensure business continuity. We assist our clients on capital raising at all stages of their business cycle and business needs. With our wide coverage of the Investor universe (Private Equity, Mezzanine, Buyout, Structured, Special Situation, Distress Funds, Family Offices, and HNIs) and exact knowledge of their investment preference and criteria, we are ideally positioned to assist our clients in their fundraising efforts.
Our distressed assets advisory practice covers client engagements right from drafting of resolution plan, NCLT filing and co-ordination at various levels. We also eng -age with clients for the bidding process, valuation exercise, co-ordination with various stakeholders throughout the NCLT process. Through our extensive lender network across PSU Banks and NBFCs, we help achieve clients the requisite financial closure as well as guide them through the recovery process.
This practice is focussed on startups who have raised Series A funding and are looking to extend cash flow runway or reach critical milestones before their next round of funding Our Venture debt fund raising advisory covers prominent Venture Debt funds as well as replicating terms with other lenders on a case to case basis with / without warrant rights. Through our extensive lender network across PSU Banks and NBFCs, we help achieve clients the requisite financial closure as well as guide them through the recovery process.
This practice has coverage of NBFCs across MFIs, secured/unsecured MSMEs, Gold finance, 2W/CV finance and Consumer financing segments and help these entities raise funding through Term loans, ICDs, PTCs and Direct Assignments (DA). We also structure and negotiate Co-lending partnerships for NBFCs with Banks/NBFCs for optimum utilisation of their operating infrastructure.
Mr. Bhutiani is an experienced professional with 17+ years of diverse experience across the Banking and financial services and IT consulting sectors. In his last professional assignment, Mr. Bhutiani held a leadership position with Acuite Ratings & Research Ltd. (A SIDBI & Dun & Bradstreet company). He has worked with reputed companies like YES Bank, ICRA (A Moody’s Investor Service company), and Cognizant. His expertise lies in managing robust relationships across Banks, NBFCs, AIFs, and VC/PEs, and a detailed product knowledge/execution experience of capital raising deals in the B2B space. Mr. Bhutiani is a qualified lawyer and holds an LL.B. degree from Government Law College (GLC), Mumbai. He also holds an engineering degree and an MBA (Finance) degree from NMIMS, Mumbai.
Mr. Saket Kumar has over 15 years of extensive experience spanning across diverse businesses; and his expertise includes credit rating, advisory and delivering quality engineering consultancy services to organisations of national repute. Mr. Kumar is a B.Tech Electrical (Energy) graduate from IIT Kharagpur, PGDM from SPJIMR Mumbai, and has been awarded CFA credential from CFA Institute, U.S.A.
Mr. Pradeep Jain is a seasoned public-sector banker and a highly accomplished professional with a career spanning over 30 years in Banking and Corporate finance. He started his career with the State Bank of Indore (now State Bank of India) as a probationary officer and worked with the bank for about 21 years. Subsequently, he has held senior finance positions with private sector companies and he has cumulatively managed a credit portfolio of INR 2000+ Crores. In one of his recent professional stints, Mr. Jain has worked as a Rating Committee member of Acuite Ratings & Research Ltd. (which is a leading credit rating agency in India). Mr. Jain is a qualified CAIIB and holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the University of Allahabad.
Mrs. Rupa is an experienced Chartered Accountant with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. She is skilled in Debt Syndication, Corporate Finance, Banking, Project Finance, Financial Reporting, and Audit Engagement. With over 12 years of experience in dealing with various lenders for raising funds for various products, she has developed an extensive relationship with several Banks & NBFCs for raising debt finance across several corporate & retail finance products.
Ms. Sapna is a qualified chartered accountant with a diverse experience of 10+ years in Big 4 consulting firms like Deloitte, Nangia Andersen, BDO India LLP, catering to companies like TCS, Future Group, Apollo Hospitals, HUL, etc. as a Management Consultant and Auditor. In her last professional endeavor, Ms.Sapna was a Co-Founder with Antennae Ventures – a startup accelerator wherein she rasied funds for startups along with providng the advisory on GTM strategies, partnerships, pricing, buinsess models to various tech startups through her year long journey. Her expertise lies in fund-raising through private equity. Identifying, analysing and assessing the right target investee companies for VC/ PE and family office investors.
Mr. Chhabra is a scientist and a veteran in the financial services industry. He has global experience of 35+ years across space technology, cleantech, and semiconductor tech management sectors. He started his career with ISRO, which is a premier Indian organization in the space sector and gained a considerable amount of Venture Capital management experience at ICICI Bank group. He brings with him years of valuable experience in capital raising and business strategy for corporates across multiple sectors. Mr. Chhabra is a Chemical engineer Panjab University and holds an MBA (Finance) from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has also completed Executive programs from IIM Ahmedabad and Brunel Management School, London (Technology Management).
