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Anuj Bahal is a senior managing director in the Transaction Advisory Services group of FTI�s Corporate Finance practice and is based in New York. Mr. Bahal�s professional experience encompasses a diverse spectrum of global and domestic private equity and corporate firms in both the public and private arena.
Mr. Bahal has advised clients in connection with, mergers and acquisitions including leveraged buyouts, public mezzanine and equity fund portfolio investments, emerging high yielding securities such as Income Deposit Securities, joint ventures, financing, corporate reorganizations and workouts as well as strategic business issues.
Industry sectors in which Mr. Bahal has significant experience include automotive, consumer products, healthcare, industrial products, media and publishing, real estate, shipping, technology and telecommunications.
Mr. Bahal�s experience covers all aspects of financial and operating transaction support including business enterprise valuation and financial modeling, identifying value drivers and risk breakers critical to the investment decision, structuring considerations, analysis of the quality of cash flows and earnings, financial opinions, supporting negotiating banking covenants, advice on sale and purchase agreements, post acquisition integration matters and exit considerations. He has led or co-led transaction advisory efforts on over fifty transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $45 billion.
Prior to joining FTI, Mr. Bahal provided M&A transaction advisory services as a managing director at Standard & Poor�s Corporate Value Consulting and as a partner at Arthur Andersen LLP. He was a founding member of Arthur Andersen�s Global Private Equity Council and a member of Standard & Poor�s Core Earnings Committee where he specialized in advising on complex and emerging financial accounting, business valuation and capital structure issues. He also has deep cross-border transaction expertise and skills to navigate through different country business practices as a result of working in Andersen�s lead European TAS practice in London, before moving to the firm�s lead U.S. TAS practice in New York in 1999.
Mr. Bahal�s clients include Allied Capital, Asbury Automotive, Accenture, Cerberus Capital, Credit Suisse First Boston, Fortress Capital Finance, GE Capital, GE/NBC, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Securities, Lehman Brothers, Silver Point Capital, Standard & Poor�s, Fox Paine & Co., Flatiron Partners, GSC Partners, JPMorgan Partners, JH Whitney & Co, Ripplewood Holdings Inc., Saugatuck Capital and The Jordan Company. His European clients have included Apax Partners, BC Partners, Cinven, Commerzbank, CVC Capital Partners, Gontard & Metallbank AG, Legal & General, Nordic Capital, Dunlop Slazenger, General Healthcare Group, Merial Limited (a joint venture between Merck and Rhone Poulenc), Manpower Inc., Exide Electronics, Wella AG, WPP Group and Zodiac Maritime Agencies (Ofer Brothers).
Mr. Bahal holds an M.B.A. from Manchester Business School, United Kingdom and a BSc (Hons) in economics and accounting from Southampton University, United Kingdom. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. |
