Ajay Mavinkurve
Managing Partner, London
Corporate Finance, M&A, IPO, IB
Email Ajay MavinkurveInternational corporate advisory
Small enough to care. Big enough to get you there.
We specialise in providing junior and mid-tier growth firms with the widest reach to cross-border financing and transactions.
- Private equity
- Venture capital
- Sovereign wealth
- Family offices
- Lenders
- M&A
- Growth capital
- Alliances & JVs
- Exits
Capital
Adan
Mid-market firms
Who we are
Adan Corporate is an international corporate advisory firm with global reach through an expansive network of multi-disciplinary corporate professionals, mostly former C-suite executives of listed companies.
Success often means being able to navigate through a complex set of challenges, issues, opportunities and risks with the right partners at the right time.
Our team has provided a wide range of bespoke advisory services to small and medium-sized firms at every step of the value creation journey — from seed funding to IPOs.
32corporate professionals, each listed here by name
25+years of experience, the figure most partners state in their own bio
13countries across 3 continents, 14 listed addresses
$1bnlargest single transaction the firm discloses
What we do
The spectrum of our relationships with key decision makers helps us assist clients with innovative forms of financing.
Capital sources
- Endowment funds
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Pension funds
- Family offices
- Institutional investors
- Funds of funds
- HNIs — high-net-worth individuals
- Insurance companies
- Government funds
Investmentsdirect from capital sourcesFund placementLenders
Small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Growth stage
Primary raisesPrivate equity & venture capital
Funds
- M&A
- Go to market
- Growth
- Alliances & JVs
- Debt
- Working capital
to firms at both stagesSmall & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
Exit stage
Secondary exitsback to the fundsWe work on a long-term relationship basis with banks, PE/VC funds, promoters and investors, built on trust, transparency and results.
AI and automation in risk and diligence
This is a description of method, not a claim about past work.
Diligence has always involved reading a great deal quickly: contracts, ledgers, policies, board minutes. We use automated tooling to widen what gets read and to flag anomalies for a person to examine — inconsistent terms across a contract set, gaps in a control narrative, figures that do not reconcile between documents.
What it does not do is form the judgement. Every flag is reviewed by a partner, every conclusion is one a named individual will defend, and nothing reaches a client that has not been checked by someone accountable for it.
Where we use these tools on an engagement, we say so in the engagement letter, and we explain what was automated and what was not.
Our breadth and depth of services
The spectrum of our expertise and network of decision makers helps us assist clients with innovative solutions.
Sector agnostic
We work in a range of areas — from conventional industries such as mining to high-tech such as AR/VR.
Location agnostic
Our partners are based in the offices listed below, across three continents, and our networks span the globe.
Deal-value agnostic
Our deal value ranges between $1m and $500m and our focus is the mid-market segment.
Deal-type agnostic
We provide a wide range of bespoke services to SMEs and funds at every step of the value creation journey.
How do we do it?
We use our extensive global network.
Funds
- Private equity funds
- Venture capital funds
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Hedge funds
- Pension funds
Financial firms
- Global banks
- NBFCs
- Trade finance firms
- Regional banks
Specialised funds
- Impact funds
- Long-only investors
- Infrastructure funds
- Green funds
- Renewable energy funds
Government funds
- Regional development banks
- Development agencies
- Export credit agencies
Sophisticated investors
- Single family offices
- Multi family offices
- High net worth networks
Power networks
- Strategic investors
- Top-tier business schools
- Personal networks
- Strategic partners
Our people
Senior multi-disciplinary corporate and finance professionals with diverse geographic, sector and transaction focuses. Every engagement is led by a named partner.
Chennakeshav (Keshav) Adya
Managing Partner, Dubai & London
Corporate Finance, M&A, Growth
Email Chennakeshav (Keshav) Adya
Sabapaty (Saba) Suryanarayanan
Managing Partner, Mumbai, India
Commercial and Finance
Email Sabapaty (Saba) SuryanarayananVinayak Hattangadi
Partner, Mumbai, India
Executive Director & Interim CTO
Email Vinayak Hattangadi
Thomas Peutz
Partner, Amsterdam
Sustainable Energy
Email Thomas Peutz
Roland Giebitz
Partner, Hamburg, Germany
Corporate Finance
Email Roland GiebitzLatest insights from our team
Writing and recorded conversations from the partners. Each piece was published to its author’s own account; the link goes there.
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ABCN (Anybody can negotiate)
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Purpose in life, or… Ikigai
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