Ganeshan MurugaiyanManaging Director & Head of Corporate Coverage and Advisory, BNP Paribas India
Ganeshan is currently the Head of Corporate Coverage & Advisory in India at BNP Paribas. A 28-year old veteran in investment banking, Ganeshan has served as Head of Investment Banking and has spearheaded several marquee deals for leading companies across Debt and Equity Capital Market, M&A and Leveraged finance products in on shore and off shore markets. Ganeshan has strong relationships with most of the large corporates and private institutions in India.
He has worked on several landmark transactions with corporates such as Reliance, Tata, Bharti, AV Birla, JSW, Motherson, M&M, Sun Pharma, Renew, Greenko etc. He has also played a key role in building the private equity franchise with relationships across large global clients like Bain capital, Advent, Carlyle, KKR, Warburg Pincus, CPPIB etc.
Some of the landmark transactions include:
- USD 7.5 billion Loan for Reliance Industries and Reliance Jio
- USD 1 billion Round the clock project financing for ReNew
- Financing aircrafts for Vistara and Air India
- 3 IPO's in 2023 - DOMS, Fedfina and TVS Supply Chain
In his current role, as the Head of Corporate Coverage & Advisory, Ganeshan is responsible for coverage of Indian corporates through a full suite of solutions likelending, transaction banking, global markets, capital markets, debt markets and advisory products.
Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Ganeshan was head of Investment Banking at UBS Securities India where his key responsibilities included M&A and capital markets. He began his career at DSP Merrill Lynch where he worked for 10 years under various roles.
Ganeshan holds a PGDM degree from IIM-Kolkata and BTech from IIT Varanasi.
