Arun Joshi

Arun Joshi is the CMD of Apohan Corporate Consultants Private Limited, Pune. He has 22 years’ work experience in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A), financial strategy, corporate management and business strategy. 

Arun has been involved in around 240 transactions of various kinds such as M&A, equity funding, financial turnaround, overseas direct investment, acquisition through share transfer, acquisition of control through infusion of additional equity, buyouts or partial acquisitions, slump sale, greenfield project funding, financing of acquisitions, joint ventures, public private partnership (PPP) projects, etc. The approximate nominal value of all these transactions would run into USD 2-3 billion.

Arun has an experience in wide variety of sectors for the M&A assignments such as construction (EPC, PPP, PMC, AMC), core sectors (steel & cement), infrastructure (water, wastewater, reuse of wastewater, roads, highways, ports, airports, railways, urban transport, automobile, shipping, aviation, metro, city bus transport) energy (oil & natural gas, power – generation, transmission, distribution, renewables), mechanical & electrical engineering projects, information technology projects, ITeS projects, new age technology projects, LBS, GPS, food, chemical & other process industries, social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, stadium), real estate.

Past employers:

• PWC

• CRISIL

• Reliance Industries

• GAIL

• DIMTS

Education:

• MBA in international business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi 

• BE Mech College of Engineering, Pune