Shri. Vishnukumar Bansal

Biography

Shri. Vishnukumar Bansal, is one of India’s most experienced investment bankers with around 40 years of overall work experience. Shri. Vishnukumar Bansal currently serves as the Chairman of Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division in Mumbai, India. Under his Chairmanship, Morgan Stanley is one of the top ranked Investment Banks both in Advisory and Equity Capital market transactions in India. On a day-to-day basis, Shri. Bansal brings forth his experience and in-depth understanding of Indian institutional finance and provides strategic advice to corporations on structuring their capital requirements and M&A strategy. He has helped raise substantial amount of equity and debt capital for Indian clients from domestic and global investors. He works with global clients in framing their inbound interest into India in core growth sectors like infrastructure, power, banking, technology and healthcare, etc. He also works with Indian clients to help expand into other global markets by acquiring mineral assets such as coal, oil & gas, cement, chemicals and general industrials. Shri. Vishnukumar Bansal helps raise growth capital for Indian Corporates from financial sponsors/ sovereign wealth funds. Also, works closely with financial sponsors in helping identify high growth investment opportunities across various sectors while developing appropriate exit strategies for them. He has contributed significantly in bringing out new regulations like InvIT/ REIT recently announced by SEBI for the development of infrastructure /real estate sector which will also help in churning out debt exposures of the Indian banking system. Shri. Vishnukumar Bansal joined the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley in 2007. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was the Managing Director at JM Morgan Stanley (Morgan Stanley’s erstwhile joint venture) since 1999. Earlier, he was the President of JM Financial since 1994. Prior to JM Financial, Shri. Bansal worked with Indian Oil Corporation (sole canalizing agent for India’s oil needs) for 18 years, most recently as the Chief of International Finance where he handled India’s oil imports worth over US$ 10 billion a year and worked with global banks for financing the same. He was the Chairman of the Association of Merchant Bankers of India and assisted in drafting key financial and capital markets policies. He has been the Co-Chairman of the Capital Markets Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce. He was also one of the longest serving members of the SEBI Primary Markets Advisory Committee and a member of the SEBI Corporate Governance committee. Currently, he is co-chairman of National Capital Market Committee of Assocham. He has closely worked with Government of India on its multi-billion dollar disinvestment programs.

Research Interest

Economics Business Banking Accounting