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SMC Capitals Limited is the Investment Banking arm of the SMC group and is a SEBI registered Merchant Banker with a strong management team, financial sponsors and partners to assist clients achieve their financial and strategic goals.

We offer a wide spectrum of services covering Public Issues Management, Capital Restructuring, Private Equity, Private Treaties, Debt Syndication, Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory, Corporate Advisory, Loans against Equity Shares, Business and ESOP Valuation Services.

As one of the premier investment banks, we serve the needs of our clients by offering a world-class platform coupled with straightforward, intelligent advice. We attribute our long-term success to our commitment of always putting our client’s interests first.

To provide our clients with global solutions we also have an association with London based ICON Capital, which is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), UK and is a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE). ICON is also an approved broker for the AIM segment of the LSE.
We aspire to be a preferred investment bank by consistently focusing on long term client needs by offering our clients independent, trusted and unbiased advice to help them achieve their financial goals while adhering to the highest standards of integrity.
 
We aspire to be a preferred investment bank by consistently focusing on long term client needs by offering our clients independent, trusted and unbiased advice to help them achieve their financial goals while adhering to the highest standards of integrity.
 
SMC Capitals endeavors to stimulate the profitable growth of every client by providing the highest quality investment banking services to create an environment that leads to long term, mutually rewarding relationships. It strives to achieve this lasting relationship by fulfilling each client’s requirement with the collaborative expertise of qualified professionals.

SMC combines in-depth research, solid analysis, knowledge of the regulatory environment and a well educated view on the sector/business under advisory to offer high quality and complete services to its clients. In addition, SMC uses its network of global and local partners to gain, and in turn offer, a well-rounded global approach to its clients to meet their aspirations.

DK Aggarwal
Managing Director
Mr. Aggarwal is a fellow member of the ICAI. He is also the Managing Director of SMC Comtrade Limited, a Member of NCDEX and MCX. He has a extensive experience of more than 15 years in securities and commodities markets. He manages, controls and supervises a substantial part of the arbitrage business of the SMC Group in the securities & commodities markets.

Shweta Aggarwal
Vice-Chairperson and Director
Shweta is an associate member of the ICAI. She also serves as a director with SMC Wealth Management Services Ltd, a joint venture with Sanlam Group of South Africa. She is responsible for the formation of, and spearheads the growth plans and business strategy of the investment banking division.

OP Agrawal
Director
Mr. Agrawal has gained rich corporate finance experience of almost 3 decades in various organizations and has a successful track record in debt restructuring with Banks & FIs, Debt Syndication, Corporate Advisory, M&A and Buyout Advisory. He is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

Vikram Sheth
Director
Vikram has worked as Head of Equity Capital Markets at ICICI Securities and at Edelweiss prior to joining SMC Capitals. His total experience of 14 years servicing Corporates includes 13 years with the ICICI group. He was responsible for bringing a lot of visibility to the Capital Markets business at Edelweiss (between 2006-07). He has worked on transactions for very large reputed groups such as Godrej, Reliance ADAG, Adanis, Sajjan Jindal etc. He has also demonstrated a problem solving approach and guided many mid-cap companies for their fund raising plans. He has a wealth of investment banking experience (especially in capital markets) across products like pre-IPOs, IPOs, FCCBs, delisting, rights issues, capital structuring etc, as also syndication of equity paper to investors.

Sonal Shah
Director
Sonal has experience of over 18 years across M&A Advisory, Equity Capital Markets, Syndication and Private Equity. Prior to joining SMC Capitals, Sonal was Head of the Industrials and Financial Services Advisory Practice at Macquarie Capital Advisors. Earlier, she held the positions of CEO of the Food & Agribusiness Private Equity Fund at Yes Bank and Director & Head- Strategic Advisory at Rabo India Finance (subsidiary of Rabobank Netherlands). She has been an active member of Industry Panels for the consumer, agribusiness and financial services sectors, at leading Indian Industry Associations. Sonal holds a PGDM from IIM Kolkata and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics (Honours) from Delhi University.

Rajeev Kalambi
Associate Director
Rajeev has over 12 years of experience in various facets of finance – consulting, research and corporate & investment banking. Prior to joining SMC Capitals, he was a corporate banker with HSBC and the Development Bank of Singapore followed by investment banking stints at Edelweiss Capital and a boutique PE & M&A firm, during which he concluded several transactions in corporate lending, structured finance, term lending (onshore and offshore) and advised companies on corporate finance strategy and capital raising. Rajeev received his master's degree from the Delhi School of Economics and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.

Tejal Mamtora
Associate Director
Tejal has over 10 years of experience on Equity Capital Markets and is a strong execution banker. She was earlier with CS Inga, IL&FS Investsmart and Axis bank’s merchant banking division. During her last assignment with CS Inga, as a group head - capital markets, she led the execution for various transactions and successfully completed various Initial Public Offers, Rights Issues, Qualified Institutional Placements, Open Offer mandates and other advisory mandates. She has completed over 40 transactions in these areas till date. Tejal is a commerce graduate and a Company Secretary by profession.

Gaurav Davda
Vice President
Gaurav has over 6 years of experience in Investment Banking and Corporate Advisory & has worked across the entire spectrum of Investment Banking products such as M&A, ECM, PE Advisory etc. He has been involved in transactions upwards of US$1.2 bn. Previously, Gaurav worked with the Corporate Strategy team at TCS Ltd and also played a key role at Prime Securities Ltd. He has a marquee network among Funds, Corporates and Advisors alike. Gaurav holds an MBA from SPJIMR and also a degree in Securities Law from Government Law College, Mumbai. He is currently pursuing his CAIA as well.

Satish Mangutkar
Vice President
Satish has a rich experience of over 9 years in Merchant Banking services. Prior to joining SMC he worked with Keynote Corporate Services Ltd. As part of the corporate and investment banking group, he has worked with a number of clients for various merchant banking services. He has strong liaisoning capabilities with regulators such as SEBI and Stock Exchanges. He possesses in-depth knowledge of processes involved in public issues, rights issues, substantial acquisition & takeovers and buyback of equity shares.

Himanshu Anand
Associate Vice President
Himanshu has over 8.5 years of experience spanning IT Services, Manufacturing and Investment Banking. He has worked extensively on cross-border M&A advisory and growth capital raising. Prior to joining SMC Capitals, he was working with Meghraj Capital Advisors, where he was heading the Technology vertical. His prior stints include working with Henkel India and Infosys Technologies on various assignments in India and abroad. He is a Chemical Engineer from Thapar Institute and an MBA (Finance and Strategy) from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Amol Mane
Associate Vice President
Amol has over 5 years of experience in Private equity, M&A and consulting. Prior to joining SMC Capitals, he was with M&A team of Bennett, Coleman and Co. where he worked on various transactions for capital raising, acquisitions, JVs etc in the media space for the group. Amol also has led various private equity deals in the B2C space and has good understanding of the media and consumer sectors. Prior to this, he has worked with companies like Inductis and Deloitte in the consulting roles. Amol is a graduate from IIT Bombay and MBA from IIM Bangalore.
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SMC Capitals
  1. Ranked 8th in “Domestic Private Bankers” Category (Source: Prime Database)
  2. Ranked 12th in “All Investment Bankers” Category for the QE June’2008 (Source: Prime Database)
SMC Capitals’s business is expanding around the world, as global markets become ever more tightly linked by technology, by the breaking down of regulatory barriers, and by the increasingly global needs of our clients.  

SMC Capitals Limited has an association with London based Sapien Capital(formerly known as Icon Capital). Sapien Capital Ltd. is an India-centric investment company which was incubated within Credo Capital Plc since 2002. Incorporated in December 2005, the company received FSA authorisation in January 2007. In March 2007, the Company was admitted as a member of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
Sapien Capital is a well-established business house that has a dedicated, multi-lingual and well-experienced team,that utilizes its expertise in stockbroking and corporate financial activities
Address: Sapien Capital Ltd: 2nd Floor, 83, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ES.
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7004 0960 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7004 0979
For more information log on to: http://www.sapiencap.com
 
“It has been a wonderful experience of working along with SMC Capital from the last 3 years or so. Over the period of time, SMC team has rendered services of the highest standards. The extended collaboration and support particularly in crunch time, has helped Newgen in achieving its desired goals within the definite time frame. We wish and hope for a long lasting relationship with SMC Capitals.”  
Kashif Shamim
Company Secretary
Newgen Software Technologies Ltd.


“ We have occasion to take services of company twice for tax purpose in particular market rate of share for fringe benefit purpose. Executives of the company are well trained, prompt in response and with quality services”
Mukesh Shah
Director Finance
Pfizer Limited


“SMC Capitals Ltd performed exceptionally high quality work under very tight deadlines. They were willing to meet all our requests for changing timelines. Additionally, SMC Capitals worked with us at every step of the way to ensure top quality results. Thanks for the great work."
Rk Sharma
Chief Financial Officer
Givo Ltd


“Straight People, Straight Service. SMC is very transparent, prompt and Customer friendly in their dealings, always taking care of investors interest.”
Rahul Jain
Director
Uniche Consultants P Ltd


"We found SMC Capitals very responsive to our needs and easy to work with. Definitely would recommend."
Dr. Ashish Varshney
Director Production
Triveni Glass Ltd


SMC Group, founded in 1990, is India’s best Equity Broking House and the Largest Distribution Network (source: BSE-D&B Equity Broking Awards 2010) providing a wide range of financial services and investment solutions.

Over the years, SMC has expanded its operations domestically as well as internationally. Existing network includes regional offices at Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Cochin, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Bangalore plus a growing network of 2500+ offices spread across 460+ cities/towns in India. We offer a diverse range of financial services which includes institutional and retail brokerage of equity, currency, commodities, derivatives, online trading, depository services, fixed Deposits, IPOs and mutual funds distribution, dedicated desk for NRI and institutional clients, insurance broking, clearing services, margin funding, investment banking, portfolio management, wealth advisory & research. We have a highly efficient workforce of over 4000 employees and over 7500 financial advisors serving the financial needs of more than 7,00,000 satisfied investors.

We are also amongst the first financial firms in India to expand operations in the lucrative gulf market, by acquiring license for broking and clearing member with Dubai Gold and Commodities exchange (DGCX).
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