Siddharth Chawla

Backpacked for a total of 15 months around the world covering countries in North America, South America, Asia and Europe Gained Advanced Divers Certification Attended a coffee course at Espresso Academy, Florence to gain technical insight into the various forms of coffee extraction Personal coffee project in India in conjunction with an established Food Services company to gauge the market for speciality coffee in India Currently pursuing German language skills

Retained strategic adviser to numerous UK public limited companies and a German global industrial company Preparation of bid letters, leak strategy, press releases and regulatory communication Management of accounting, legal, tax and technical advisers in a due diligence process Team staffer Transaction experience: Technicolor's acquisition of The Mill from Equistone Partners Europe Consortium comprising of CVC, QIA and Brookfield on their attempted acquisition of Sainsbury’s

Prepared valuation analyses, merger and LBO models, credit ratings analyses and numerous client presentations Corporate broker to Tesco, Easyjet and Stagecoach Transaction experience: - Coca Cola Sabco’s merger with SABMiller’s non-alcoholic bottling interests in Africa - KKR's acquisition of South Staffordshire Water from Alinda Capital Partners - Sumitomo Corporation's acquisition of Sutton and East Surrey Water from Aqueduct Capital Limited