Mergers and Acquisitions can happen for several reasons; two organizations can find synergies and common goals and decide it's best to team up, but in other cases, these deals can happen with hostility or in the face of daunting government regulations. Making the role of M&A experts even more complex, mergers and acquisitions happen across every industry. Learning how to successfully merge two companies in the energy industry is an entirely different battle from guiding two tech companies to becoming one organization. These examples only scratch the surface, but Darshil Shah does it all and more.
Today, he works as a senior M&A associate at Evercore Partners. In the M&A space, Darshil helps organizations merge some of the most intricate components of any business: the finances. He helps run various complex financial analysis depending on what each situation demands. When a company is merging with another company, there are various operational, financial and technical challenges that need to be countered. Consequently, there is a lot of heavy lifting required by these companies for the merger to be successful. It's intense, but Darshil Shah loves the challenge. His entire professional story was filled with challenges, and despite every obstacle, he got to exactly where he was targeting. His own professional journey and the journey he assists his clients with might be different on paper, but in terms of mindset, there are many similarities between the two.
Darshil grew up in India, but he always knew he wanted to work on Wall Street. After completing his formal education in his home country, he went on to work in investment banking at large, global firms. He supported Credit Suisse's Investment Banking Team as an analyst where he got his first taste of providing financial advice to global multinational clients. After Credit Suisse, Darshil moved on to work for Amplus, a real estate focused private equity firm. Though these experiences were in India, they helped shape Darshil into the professional he wanted to be before making on move to Wall Street.
His move to Wall Street wasn't just a job change; it was a literal move across the world, to a new country and a new work environment. For most people, it would have been too much to handle, but Darshil had been working his way toward Wall Street his entire life. While at Evercore, Darshil has helped lead the execution of the $40 billion merger of Grab and Altimeter Growth Capital, which was the largest SPAC merger and largest PIPE raise in global history, totaling $4 billion. He was also a key part of the team that advised Apollo's SPAC on its $5 billion merger with Amex Global Business Travel, creating the largest publicly listed travel management company in the world. In about a decade into his career, Darshil has made a global impact larger than he could have ever dreamed - keep watching to see what he achieves in the next decade.
