Grant Thornton Bharat led the lately concluded sale of Cians Analytics to Equistone-backed Acuity Awareness Associates. The company was the exceptional transaction advisor to the shareholders of Cians Analytics.
Launched in 2009, Cians Analytics presents high-good quality, price tag-successful exploration and analytical assistance for world financial commitment banking companies, personal fairness money, companies, and portfolio firms allowing for them to noticeably reduce operating charges. Its’ varied pool of talent, such as economical scientists, builders, and data experts will allow the in-dwelling teams of Cians’ consumers to far better focus on strategic initiatives and raise output.
Aditya Khanna, Associate, Direct Advisory at Grant Thornton Bharat, who led the transaction claimed, “With synergistic company/product or service offerings and market place concentrate, this acquisition significantly expands Acuity Information Partners’ consumer base and appreciably bolsters the benefit proposition the business delivers to both of those consumers and workers.”
Siddhartha Nigam, Nationwide Handling Spouse, Growth Advisory at Grant Thornton said, “The transaction strongly validates increasing traction for the outsourcing sector on the back of financial uncertainty and rising emphasis within just organisations of concentrating on their main price propositions. With successive offers across the technology / Outsourcing stack in the previous 12 months, this further reinforces Grant Thornton’s position as the advisor of selection for unlocking value in this sector.“
“The blend of the two firms not only increases the capabilities to supply our put together client established but also allows our workers and prospects to have a really world engagement workforce and encounter,” claimed Cians Analytics Co-founder and Co-CEO, Anmol Bhandari. “We usually noticed every other in engagements and in the market, it finally manufactured feeling to mix offerings, consumers and to give the consumers and workers the ideal equally firms can supply.”
“This is a earn-acquire scenario for our most essential stakeholders, our consumers and our workforce,” claimed Cians Analytics Co-founder and Co-CEO, Aman Chowdhury. “Equally firms have a historical past of delivering high-high quality expert services to a discerning and advanced client set, spread across the globe. Though both of those firms work with identical kinds of clients, our services and concentration parts are typically complementary. This sets the put together agency up as the pre-eminent agency in our field, heading ahead.”
Grant Thornton Bharat was lately conferred with two world M&A awards: ‘M&A Company of the Calendar year Award (mid-sector category)‘ and ‘Cross Border Deal of the Yr‘ at the current M&A Atlas Awards 2021. As one particular of India’s top transaction advisors, this recognition has further more strengthened the efforts of the business towards shaping a lively India and creating gold requirements in consulting and advisory.
About Cians Analytics
Cians Analytics was founded in 2009 by Anmol Bhandari and Aman Chowdhury, to supply substantial-good quality, expense-effective research and analytical guidance for international financial commitment banking companies, personal equity cash, organizations, and portfolio companies letting them to do far more with their time and appreciably reduce operating charges. Cians supports economical consumers across the whole transaction spectrum from first investment decision screening, business and financial thanks diligence, and industry entry/market place sizing to publish- closing portfolio organization/sector update servicing perform. The Cians Analytics workforce – known for its industry-primary personnel retention amount – is composed of individuals who produce the greatest calibre know-how in expenditure banking and investigation, fairness investigate, and general small business investigation and analytics. Cians’ value proposition lies in the adaptability of its engagement design, allowing for clients to have overall management, adding capacity and functioning potential while in the long run decreasing expenses.
About Acuity Awareness Associates
Acuity Knowledge Companions is a major study, analytics, and organization intelligence specialist to the economic companies sector. The firm’s community of analysts and sector authorities, merged with highly developed data and technological know-how, supports in excess of 420 economic institutions and consulting companies all over the world to work extra effectively, and unlock their human money, driving revenues greater and reworking operations. It specializes in investment decision banking, investment decision research, personal fairness & consulting and professional lending. Acuity is headquartered in London and operates from nine places all over the world. In 2019, the enterprise was established as a independent business from Moody’s Corporation by its acquisition by Equistone Associates.
About Equistone Partners Europe
Equistone is an unbiased expenditure firm wholly owned and managed by its executives. The corporation is 1 of Europe’s top investors in mid-marketplace buyouts with a strong, steady track report spanning about 40 several years, with much more than 400 transactions finished in this period of time. Equistone has a potent target on the change of possession specials and aims to invest amongst €25m and €200m+ of equity in many firms. The organization has a crew of around 40 financial commitment experts running across France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Uk, investing as a strategic spouse along with management groups. Equistone is presently investing its sixth buyout fund, which held a final closing at its €2.8bn really hard cap in March 2018, and has lately launched the Equistone Reinvestment Fund, with a mandate to make minority re-investments along with new sponsors pursuing a portfolio corporation exit from a single of its principal buyout resources. Equistone is authorised and controlled by the Economic Conduct Authority.
About Grant Thornton Bharat
Grant Thornton Bharat is a member of Grant Thornton Worldwide Ltd. The company is at the forefront of encouraging reshape the values in our profession. We are serving to form different sector ecosystems as a result of our perform throughout assurance, tax, danger, transactions, technology and consulting, and are going past to condition a extra lively Bharat.