OUR PEOPLE

Abhijeet Shah

Founder & Structuring Specialist

Abhijeet Shah is the Founder of Coortus and is a Structuring specialist. Abhijeet continues to work very closely with Promoters, Business families and large to mid-sized businesses/ companies on complex structurings, deals, negotiations.
Abhijeet has over 15 years of core experience in Structurings and has worked on multiple large & complex structurings, M&As – from term sheet negotiations to closure of transactions. Abhijeet has also worked with multiple business families on ownership structures – domestic and cross-border, family settlement situations and succession plannings. Abhijeet has successfully implemented more 25 family ownership structures involving size of wealth, regulatory and cross border complexities.
Abhijeet also possess strong expertise on global M&A and Structuring related laws.

Practice Head – Deals

Amit Dodani is transaction advisory professional with deep knowledge in buy-side & sell-side advisory, value negotiation, financial and accounting due diligence,
valuations, financial modelling and other management consulting services.
Amit has assisted clients on matters relating to transactions; be it buying/ selling of companies, determining the value of a business, doing due diligence, assisting clients prior to/ during due diligence by setting up data rooms, raising private equity finance and research
requirements related to M&A transactions.
Prior to Coortus, Amit worked with BDO International and Woodbridge International.

Practice Head – Deals

Amit Dodani is transaction advisory professional with deep knowledge in buy-side & sell-side advisory, value negotiation, financial and accounting due diligence,
valuations, financial modelling and other management consulting services.
Amit has assisted clients on matters relating to transactions; be it buying/ selling of companies, determining the value of a business, doing due diligence, assisting clients prior to/ during due diligence by setting up data rooms, raising private equity finance and research
requirements related to M&A transactions.
Prior to Coortus, Amit worked with BDO International and Woodbridge International.

Practice Head – Valuations & Business
Modelling

Pruthvi Mota leads the valuation practice in Coortus. He has more than 8 years of experience in the valuation field. Prior to Coortus, he was associated with BDO India in the valuation practice. He has gained immense experience in valuation of businesses, intangible assets, financial instruments with complex options and valuation for regulatory purposes including
IND-AS, Income Tax, Foreign Exchange regulations and Capital Market Regulations.
In addition, he has worked on detailed business models for start up / new ventures.

Managing Director, Coortus Advisors GmbH Germany

Per Hornung Pedersen anchors our German/ European Practice as we believe strongly on the Indo-German Business Corridor. He brings 30+ years of international experience working as an executive and for the past decade as a professional Board member. His focus for the past 20 years has been the renewable sector with focus on strategy, business development and M&A.
Per has been in the renewable energy sector since 2000 working in executive positions with leading global wind OEMs. Until mid 2004 as CFO with NEG Micon/Vestas, thereafter building the international organization for Suzlon, responsible for the world outside of India as CEO. From end 2007 to mid 2011 CEO of Repower in Hamburg Germany.
Since mid 2011 working as independent director /non-executive director and advisor to various companies as: Senior Advisor to McKinsey, Senior Advisor Atrium Partners , Copenhagen. Senior Advisor MCF Corporate Finance Hamburg .

Chartered Accountant

Rohan is a rank holding Chartered Accountant and also holds a Masters in Economics. He has over 18 years of consulting experience spread across a Big4 consulting firm and a boutique transactions advisory firm.
Rohan’s experience and key strengths include transaction structuring, international tax, corporate tax, tax due diligences, inbound and outbound investment structuring and FEMA.
He has extensively advised clients on complex tax and regulatory issues
He also has vast experience in tax litigations, assessments and appeals
He works extensively with foreign and domestic multinationals across sectors such as Real Estate, Automotive, Technology, Pharma etc.
He writes and speaks regularly at various forums on tax and regulatory issues