Aura Investment Partners is a US based business and financial advisory firm with an office in Mumbai, India and a global network of associates. We provide independent, specialized and high quality value added financial and business advisory services to US and Indian companies with global ambitions.
Our services include mergers & acquisitions, market entry and growth strategies through joint ventures and strategic alliances, capital raising and financial restructuring. The Aura team provides clients with innovative and customized solutions using well tried and tested tools and skills honed over 100 years at reputed financial institutions, including JP Morgan, Lazard, Ernst & Young, Jefferies & Company, ICICI Group, and industrial leaders Intel, Lockheed Martin and TATA Group. The Partners also have operational experience in reputed companies at CEO and Board levels.
We focus on companies with enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million, a market overlooked by larger investment banks but deserving of experienced and relationship driven advisory services. The AURA team has collective experience in Private Capital Raising, Project Finance, Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Securities Research, Strategy, Financial and Business Advisory for public and private companies, as well as family run businesses. The partners’ expertise has resulted in successful completion of domestic and cross-border engagements on both the buy and sell-side, with strategic and financial counter-parties.
The partners have provided Advisory Services to multilateral agencies such as the World Bank and the United Nations, and also to several Central and State Governments in India and abroad on industrial development policies, restructuring and globalization assignments. They have also served on the Boards of 21 public and private companies in India, USA and Mexico. One of the partners also has 10 years of operating experience of managing North American and Asian businesses for US based companies at the CXO level.