Chetan Khandhadia
Leader Transaction Services
Background
- Chetan Khandhadia is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a ranker in CA Intermediate. He is a key member of the BSC Family heading its Transaction Services (TS).
- He comes with 32 years of experience with deep understanding of the companies, and M&A and PE transactions. He is an ex-PwC and ex-Grant Thornton partner and has held leadership roles for 19 years. Brief summary of his professional journey:
- Capital Market magazine and Hinduja Finance in equity research for 3 years
- PwC and Grant Thornton for 20 years and 4 years.
- RBSA Advisors for 5 years.
Skills
Chetan’s core expertise is due diligence with focus on the financial aspects, for inbound and outbound M&A, PE and IBC transactions.
- Buy side due diligence, Closing due diligence
- Review of VDD report from buyer’s perspective
- Vendor due diligence, Vendor assistance
- Advise on transaction documents – SPA, BTA, resolution plan
- Assistance in deal negotiation
- Assistance in setting up dataroom
Professional experience
- Chetan’s core expertise is financial due diligence - buy side and vendor side, inbound and outbound transactions. He brings in value-added aspects related to financial, business, commercial, tax and valuation and aspects on transaction closing and transaction agreements / resolution plans which are very essential and critical in any transaction. These aspects and solutions are transaction and sector specific and differ for each company.
- Chetan has worked on many marquee transactions and complex business carved out transactions, across various sectors. He holds sector-agnostic experience and over the years, has developed a good commercial understanding on any transaction and the sector.
- Chetan was a core TS team member of PwC India, which was formed in 1998 after merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand (C&L). He came from C&L. His strong execution skills along with his business acumen to source work helped him grow as a TS Partner in PwC in 2007. He further grew as office managing partner of PwC Ahmedabad in 2013 where his key role was markets / business development of the firm’s service offerings.
- Chetan strengthened the due diligence practice of Grant Thornton on practice development and execution of marque transactions. He started and headed the Transaction Services of RBSA Advisors, where he developed a good team and created a niche and recognition for the firm in due diligence.
- Chetan has been a speaker last 2-3 years on M&A conference conducted by WIRC in Mumbai.
- Chetan is a yoga teacher and has done his MA in yoga shastra. He conducts yoga sessions within his society complex, corporates and friends and leads yoga camps for the international yoga day celebrations.