Umakanta Panigrahi

Managing Director

Valuation Services

Umakanta Panigrahi +91 22 6623 1002 Umakanta.Panigrahi@duffandphelps.com

AT A GLANCE

Umakanta Panigrahi is a Managing Director in the Valuation Advisory Services practice, based in Mumbai. Umakanta leads Kroll’s Financial Valuation practice in West India.

Umakanta leverages over 20 years of experience in Financial Advisory Services including Valuation, Fairness Opinion, Disputes, Restructuring, Equity Research, Credit Research and other advisory services. He specializes in valuation of complex financial instruments such as complex convertible instruments, earn-out and contingent payments, cross-currency interest rate swaps, options and other hedging instruments.

Umakanta has managed a range of mandates including business valuation, intellectual property valuation, complex capital structure valuation. He has also advised several clients on swap ratio determination, corporate finance, business plan development and review, exit strategies and shareholders’ disputes. He has managed and executed a range of financial advisory engagements for energy, utilities, infrastructure, private equity, insurance and financial services healthcare, telecom, media and entertainment, retail and IT and ITES industries for mergers & acquisitions, accounting and tax reporting, transfer pricing, litigation, dispute resolution and strategic purposes. He has also advised several companies on distress debt transactions, earn-out structuring and ESOP structuring.

He has also advised several companies on distress debt transactions, earn-out structuring and ESOP structuring.

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Umakanta joined Kroll through the firm’s acquisition of American Appraisal Associates. Prior to joining Kroll, Umakanta worked with the Financial Advisory Services practice of Deloitte and Investment Research & Valuation team of Evalueserve.

Umakanta holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Utkal University, India. He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) under Valuation of Business and Intangible Assets pathway and holds the Certified in Entity and Intangible Valuations™ (CEIV™) credential from the American Society of Appraisers.

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