Rishav Das
CFA Charterholder, financial advisor and business development professional with 6.5 years of experience across Restructuring, Investment Banking, and Energy industry. Proven expertise in areas of Insolvency & Bankruptcy, M&A, and large scale EPC projects across 7 different industries. Adept in managing cross functional teams and driving projects to completion.
Work Experience:
5.7 Years
Industry:
Banking Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) | Consulting | Government & PSUs
Function:
Business Development | Consulting & Strategy
EY India (Advising on deals, strategy, and transformation) | Mumbai
- Senior Associate - Debt & Special Situations
- Spearheaded the resolution of an INR 1,200 Cr debt-laden auto firm by running a sell-side investor outreach program, engaging with strategic and financial investors, and running a competitive bid, resulting in a strategic sale at INR 138 Cr.
- Led the turnaround of an INR 5,600 Cr debt-laden low-cost carrier by preparing a lender-aligned Information Memorandum, stress-case financial model, and phased revival roadmap, resulting in approval of an interim funding of INR 450 Cr.
- Optimized treasury operations for an Indian airline under insolvency by identifying payment inefficiencies and restructuring cash flows, enabling INR 104 Cr of corporate insolvency costs being reimbursed by lenders.
- Associate - Debt & Special Situations
- Led tariff and financial modeling for ~$1.2bn utility assets within a $5.0bn integrated energy project for a Middle Eastern client, enabling commercially viable pricing and investment approval.
- Strengthened project bankability for an Energy Producer by structuring long-term Utilities Sale, Power Purchase, and Gas Supply Agreements, and shaping negotiation strategy through formulation of commercially viable principles.
Citigroup (Global bulge bracket Investment Bank) | Mumbai
- Business Analyst - M&A
- Led precedent transaction analysis across $1.0bn+ in M&A deal structures, assessing valuation trends, deal feasibility, and close timelines to benchmark deal terms and support strategic decision-making.
- Led detailed analysis of M&A deal premiums relative to pre-rumour pricing and integrated findings into Comparable Transactions analysis to refine valuation assessments and benchmark deal premiums across various M&A structures.
- Authored Citi’s M&A market summary with insights on deal trends and macroeconomic drivers, featured by CNBC, Reuters, Euromoney, and Financial Times, enhancing client engagement and firm visibility.
- Published daily intel newsletter based on publicly available situations for potential M&A deals exceeding $500bn in EV.
Larsen & Toubro Energy - Hydrocarbon (Leaders in hydrocarbon EPC and project delivery)
- Executive - Business Development
- Led end-to-end structuring and negotiation of two INR 350 Cr asset management contracts with a leading Indian O&G firm by defining scope feasibility, designing risk allocation frameworks, and finalizing pricing and commercial terms.
- Developed and delivered cost-plus pricing models and comprehensive NPV/IRR evaluations for integrated EPC and O&M projects, aligning multi-stakeholder inputs and securing executive sign-off for competitive bids.
- Led the development of the first integrated cash flow model and sensitivity analysis incorporating proportionally allocated risk scores, which became the standard framework for evaluating and bidding for subsequent projects.
- Graduate Engineer Trainee
- Core team member responsible for valuing and bidding for O&G mega EPC project of a leading Middle Eastern Oil producer, worth $1.0bn
- Developed high-quality pitch materials highlighting project risks and costs to senior leadership, leading to project approval
- Fast Track Promotion - Promoted to Senior Associate within 8 months of joining EY India, Mumbai office.
- Led L&T Energy’s first-ever bid for an integrated Asset Management project for Cairn Oil & Gas.
- Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) - Jadavpur University | India
- CFA Charterholder - Chartered Financial Analyst Institute | USA
- Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA), Corporate Finance Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Python Programming, Indian School of Ethical Hacking, India
- Vertical Head for PEVC/BFSI and selected member (19/157) of the Placement Committee of IIMA MBA - PGPX 2025-26 batch
- Selected for two consecutive years from Howrah District of West Bengal to play in the 83rd and 84th West Bengal State Table Tennis Championships, 2017-18 and 2018-19, organized by the Bengal Table Tennis Association.