Bio

Jayasankar is Senior Executive Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets at Kotak Investment Banking. Jayasankar has been with the Kotak Mahindra Group for close to 20 years. Over the last two decades, he has worked in diverse areV Jayasankar is Managing Director at Kotak Investment Banking. Jayasankar has been with Kotak Mahindra Group for 30+ years. He has worked in diverse areas within investment bank encompassing Capital Markets, Private Equity, and M&A. Jayasankar has advised and raised equity for several companies belonging to marquee conglomerate groups such as Reliance, Aditya Birla, Godrej, HDFC, Mahindra & Mahindra, State Bank, Tata, among others. Jayasankar is a capital markets veteran and has been instrumental in Kotak Investment Banking establishing leadership role in ECM business across IPOs, follow-ons and blocks. During CY 2022, Kotak Investment Baking helped its clients raise over Rs. 50,000 crore through Equity Capital Market transactions, representing 54% of all Equity Offerings during that year. (Source: Prime Database). As the Managing Director at Kotak Investment Banking, Jayasankar has worked on several pioneering and industry-defining transactions such as Zomato’s $1.2Bn IPO, Embassy REIT’s $700Mn IPO, record breaking IPOs of HDFC AMC and Avenue Supermarts, $1.2Bn sell-down by KKR in Max Healthcare and several other transactions that have helped strengthen Kotak Investment Banking's leadership position in the industry. In the last three years, he has advised several clients on equity fund raise via innovative routes. These include HDFC Ltd., ICICI Bank, Lodha Group, Nykaa, PB Fintech, Delhivery, Apollo Hospitals, PVR Limited, Max Healthcare, Sona BLW, Clean Science, Devyani International, CarTrade, Aditya Birla AMC, Star Heath, Bikaji Foods, Sula Vineyards, KFin Technologies, Bharti Airtel, Indian Hotels, Medanta, Fivestar Business Finance to name a few. Jayasankar has been equally involved in landmark Disinvestment / PSU deals such as Life Insurance Corporation of India, Coal India, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation and Bharat Petroleum. Jayasankar is an Engineer (IIT, Madras) and MBA (IIM, Bengaluru) with total work experience of 30 years in financial advisory services.as within the investment bank encompassing Capital Markets, Private Equity, and M&A. Jayasankar has advised a number of marquee clients such as M&M, Godrej, Tata Steel, HCL Technologies, Hughes Software, iflex and Tech Mahindra to name a few. He has been involved in landmark Disinvestment / PSU deals such as Coal India, NTPC and Oil India and has also advised several marquee private equity and buy-out funds helping them identify and invest in some of India’s leading corporates as well as advising on divestures. As the Head of Equity Capital Markets, Jayasankar has worked on several pioneering and industry-defining transactions that have helped strengthen Kotak Investment Banking’s leadership position in the industry. Jayasankar is an Engineer (IIT, Madras) and MBA (IIM, Bangalore) with total work experience of nearly 25 years in financial advisory services.