India focused private equity fund with a distinguished track record
Sabre Partners is an India focused private equity fund with a distinguished track record of having delivered stellar returns for its investors, both commercial and development impact. Founded by professionals from the financial services industry, the team has decades of experience of investing, managing and operating businesses in Asia and India. It has invested over INR 1,300 cr in the past 15 years in India, in sectors including financial services, fintech, healthcare and healthtech, and has distributed over INR 6,800 cr, including from Centurion Bank of Punjab, one of Asia's most successful financial services private equity exits of all time.
Nitish Shah
Fund managerInvestment Manager
Chartered Accountant; B.Com, University of Mumbai
Nitish has over 3 years of experience across private equity advisory, mergers & acquisitions, and capital markets. Previously, he worked at JM Financial as an Investment Banking Associate, with experience across Healthcare, Financial Services, Industrials, and Consumer sectors. Earlier, he was part of KPMG's Statutory Audit team in the financial services sector during his Chartered Accountancy articleship. Nitish is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai.
Himanshu Bansal
Fund managerInvestment Manager
MBA (Finance & Strategy), Faculty of Management Studies Delhi; B.E. Electronics and Communication, Punjab University
Himanshu has three years of experience in application security and management consulting services. He began his career with Deloitte where he worked on SAP security for a fortune 100 client. Subsequently, he joined ZS Associates, a pharmaceutical consulting firm, where he utilized various quantitative methods to analyse and optimize marketing budgets. Additionally, he was as a Summer Associate at Kearney, focusing on analytics-driven plant optimization for the leading private power company in India. Himanshu holds an MBA (Major in Finance & Strategy) from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Jayanthi Krishnamoorthy
Fund managerPortfolio Manager
M.A. Economics (with Distinction), University of Madras
Jayanthi serves as a Portfolio Manager of Sabre Partners. She joined Sabre Partners in 2003 and over the years has managed multiple internal and external projects including leadership development, talent management of portfolio companies, strategy implementation, and leading operational deal execution. Jayanthi has delivered on multiple projects focused on the future of work, continuous process improvement and implementation of systems. At Sabre, she designed and implemented a successful female mentorship programme across the organisation. Jayanthi is Master of Arts with Distinction from University of Madras, specializing in Economics.
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Rajiv Maliwal
Founder & Managing Partner
MBA, IIM Bangalore; B.E. (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, BITS Pilani
Rajiv Maliwal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sabre Partners. He is best known for having pioneered and successfully implemented a unique private sector solution for ailing and stressed financial institutions in India (e.g. Centurion Bank, Lord Krishna Bank etc.) and more recently, in spearheading growth of healthcare and Fintech in India by providing equity capital and structuring financing innovatively. Sabre Partners has raised three mid - market private equity funds and is now raising its fourth fund. Prior to founding Sabre Partners in 2002, Rajiv was at Standard Chartered PLC as Global Head of Private Equity. He raised a $300m fund, built a global team and invested internationally with a focus on financial services and technology. Between 1993 and 1998, he was with Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong and JP Morgan, Singapore and was responsible for setting up and growing the investment banking and securities firms in India with domestic partners (Goldman Sachs/Kotak Mahindra JV and JP Morgan/ICICI JV), led many M&A, Equity and Debt underwriting and originated several private equity investments. Prior to 1993, Rajiv was with Citibank, where he was responsible for corporate and investment banking in Western India. Rajiv sits on the board of several companies in India and globally. He is a member of the Board of Governors of IIM, Bangalore and was a member of Stanford Parents Advisory Board for 4 years. He is a frequent speaker at a number of educational institutions and forums internationally on entrepreneurship and financial services industry amongst other areas and regularly mentors start-ups. He is also closely associated with two not-for-profit healthcare initiatives in India in the fields of mental health and eye-care. Rajiv graduated with an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 1985 and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani. He was awarded the IIM Bangalore, Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012.
Vishal Karnani
Partner
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Tanushree Agarwal
Partner
MBA in finance, Faculty of Management Studies Delhi; CFA (all three levels cleared); B.E. Computer Engineering
Tanushree is an investment professional with 14 years of experience in private equity and project finance over diverse sectors such as real estate, infrastructure, and allied sectors. At Sabre, she is responsible for deal sourcing, evaluation of potential investment opportunities and managing investments in financial services, healthcare, and climate change sectors. Prior to Sabre, Tanushree has spent the past 8 years working with the commercial and residential funds of Edelweiss Alternate Asset Advisors and Milestone Capital Advisors. Apart from managing the entire deal life cycle, she was also involved in fund-raising by way of conceptualizing the fund strategy and formulating the marketing and fund documents She has managed over INR 7.5 billion assets across six different funds being involved in end-to-end fund lifecycle. Prior to this she was a part of the Infrastructure Banking/Project Finance team at Yes Bank for 4 years. Tanushree holds an MBA in finance from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, and has also cleared all three levels of CFA (USA). She is a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Sardar Patel College of Engineering (Mumbai University).
Atul Deodhar
Partner & CFO
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Sukesh Khandelwal
Partner / India AIF Contact
Sukesh Khandelwal is associated with Sabre Partners’ India AIF platform and serves as the SEBI-registered contact person for the fund.
Rahul G Kurup
Partner
MBA in finance, Mumbai University
Rahul is a finance professional with over 20 years of experience across private equity investing, corporate advisory and investment banking. Immediately prior to Sabre, Rahul had spent the past 10 years working with private equity funds such as BanyanTree and Neev Funds, with cumulative AUM of ~INR 30 billion across various funds - where he has worked on sectors such as consumer, manufacturing, retail, climate and sustainability sectors and across the entire investment life cycle, including exits via various modes. He was also involved in preparation of fund strategies and fund documentation. At Sabre, he is responsible for developing and implementing investment strategies aligned with the firm's goals and objectives - including fundraising, deal sourcing, execution, portfolio management, and investor relationships. Rahul holds an MBA in finance from Mumbai University.
Bhavik Mehta
Finance Manager
Commerce graduate
Bhavik Mehta is a Commerce graduate with 9 years of rich experience in Finance, Taxation, Operations, MIS, & Accounting.. He has been with Sabre for around 8 years and was previously associated with a Chartered Accountant firm.
Gazala Azim
Fund Administration Manager
Commerce graduate, University of Mumbai
Gazala Azim is responsible for Investor Relations and Fund Administration for various Sabre Funds. She has been with Sabre for over 12 years. She was earlier with DCB Bank Ltd, a private sector scheduled commercial Bank in India. Gazala is a Commerce Graduate from the University of Mumbai.
Berjis Desai
AdvisorChairman, Investment Committee
LL.B., University of Bombay; LL.M., University of Cambridge; Solicitor
Berjis Desai has over 37 years of experience in the practice of law. He was the Managing Partner of J. Sagar Associates, Advocates & Solicitors, a leading Indian law firm, since 2003 before starting his own practice in 2017. Berjis is an expert in Corporate Mercantile laws and specializes in M&A, derivatives, corporate and financial laws, international business laws and international commercial arbitration and has extensive experience as an arbitrator and counsel. He is an Arbitrator for the London Court of International Arbitrator and Indian Chamber of Commerce. He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Indian Council of Arbitration and the London Court of International Arbitration. Berjis is an Associate Member of the American Arbitration association and is a Member of ICC-India and is a Columnist for various Indian newspapers. Berjis is also the chairperson of the Investment Committee of Sabre Partners and is on the board of several Indian companies. He is an LL.B. (First Class First) from University of Bombay, LL.B. (now LL.M.) (First Class First, Starred First) from University of Cambridge, UK and Solicitor (First Class First) from Bombay.
Dr. Anupam Sachdeva
AdvisorMember, Investment Committee
M.D., Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana; MBBS, Amritsar Medical College
Dr. Anupam Sachdeva is a distinguished Pediatric Hematologist and Chairman Department of Pediatrics as well as Director, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at Sir Gangaram Hospital. He was a research fellow at University College London in WHO Collaborative Laboratories for Hemoglobinopathies. He has won numerous awards including the James Flett Endowment Award for best research in Social Paediatrics in India (1990), Nestle Nutritional Fellowship (1990), best paper award in Infectious Diseases in Paediatrics (PEDICON 1997), the prestigious Dr. BC Roy Award for development of medical specialties (2005), the Silver Jubilee Research Award Category I by President of India (2006) and the Dr KC Mahajan Award for the best academician (2006). Dr. Sachdeva is a Fellow of the University College Hospital, London and Royal Marsden Hospital, London and completed his M.D from Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab and his MBBS from Amritsar Medical College, Amritsar, Punjab.
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