Arun Kumar

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Twenty-five years in M&A and capital raising across the UK, Europe, India and the US, on both the sell-side and the buy-side. I came to finance from engineering, through IIT Kanpur, an MS at Cornell and an MSc in Finance at London Business School. My core strength is origination. For three years running in mid-market advisory, I billed over £1m in fees, almost all of it on mandates I brought in myself rather than inherited. The two deals I am most proud of are the US$485m sale of Allworld Exhibitions to UBM, later named International M&A Deal of the Year, and Tata Steel's £6.2bn acquisition of Corus, where I led the UK deal team. The work spans technology, data, business services, industrials, energy and healthcare, from founder exits to large cross-border deals. More recently, I have run buy-side programmes for technology and AI businesses, and built capital raising and investor coverage across venture capital, growth equity, private equity and family offices. Outside the deals, I have volunteered with the Chelsea Pensioners at the Royal Hospital Chelsea since 2014, and I am a Dementia Friend with the Alzheimer's Society. Alongside my investment banking work, I have developed a gr

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