As the audience rose in unison and the applause swelled into a sustained, standing ovation, Aditya Puri \u2014 usually implacable and restrained \u2014 allowed himself a rare smile, and raised his arm in quiet acknowledgement of a room full of peers paying tribute to a remarkable career.<\/p>\n
Aditya Puri, former MD, HDFC Bank, accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n
It was the closing moment of day two at the ninth edition of the Mint India Investment Summit. On a balmy Friday evening in Mumbai, after two days of sharp, often fractious debates spanning the economy, global volatility, dealmaking, and artificial intelligence, the mood shifted. The conversations gave way to celebration \u2014 of institutions and leaders who had defined the year\u2019s deal landscape.<\/p>\n
Puri, former managing director of HDFC Bank, received the evening\u2019s highest honour: the Lifetime Achievement Award. It marked a career that saw him build a banking startup into India\u2019s most valuable financial institution by the time he stepped down in 2020.<\/p>\n
Soumen Ray, Group CFO, Bharti Airtel, accepting the Company of the Year award for Bharti Airtel.<\/p>\n
Among the other standout winners was Bharti Airtel, named Company of the Year \u2014 a new category \u2014 for its sustained financial performance and shareholder value creation over the past three years. The award was accepted on stage by group CFO Soumen Ray.<\/p>\n
The ceremony also recognised standout corporate transactions, fund performance, and business leadership across the past year.<\/p>\n
Kaushal Shah, managing director and head, Equity Capital Markets; Viren Jairath, MD, Equity Capital Markets; Jayasankar Venkataraman, MD; and Abhijit Vaidya, MD and co-head, Equity Corporate Finance, Kotak Mahindra Capital Co, accepting the Dealmaker of the year award for Kotak Mahindra Capital Co.Deal winners<\/p>\n
In the specific transaction categories, MUFG Group\u2019s acquisition of a minority stake in Shriram Finance worth $4.4 billion secured the M&A Deal of the Year.<\/p>\n
Shashank Joshi, deputy CEO, MUFG India, accepting the M&A deal of the year award for MUFG Group’s acquisition of a minority stake in Shriram Finance.<\/p>\n
Within the private equity (PE) categories, KKR\u2019s $1.4 billion exit from JB Pharma was awarded PE Exit of the Year, while TPG\u2019s $1 billion investment in TCS Hypervault was named PE Investment of the Year.<\/p>\n
Mayank Mishra, director-Private Equity, KKR accepting the PE exit of the year award for KKR’s exit from JB Pharma.\u00a0Miteshwar Singh, vice president, TPG, and Mayank Bajpai, partner, TPG Growth and Rise, accepting the PE Investment of the Year award for TPG’s investment in TCS Hypervault.<\/p>\n
In the venture capital segment, Peak XV\u2019s partial exit through the initial public offering of Groww, where it clocked a 75x return worth $790 million, was recognized as the VC Exit of the Year. Westbridge\u2019s $200 million investment in mobility firm Rapido won the VC Investment of the Year.<\/p>\n
Prateek Batra, director at Peak XV, accepting the VC exit of the year award for Peak XV’s part exit through Groww’s IPO.Anshuman Khosla, principal, Westbridge Capital, accepting the VC investment of the year award for Westbridge’s investment in Rapido.<\/p>\n
The awards were presented to the winners by M. Damodaran, chairperson, Excellence Enablers Pvt.<\/p>\n
Selection methodology<\/p>\n
The final winners were selected by a five-member jury panel comprising Keki Mistry, former vice-chairman and chief executive officer of HDFC Ltd; A. Velumani, founder of Thyrocare and managing director of AVM Labs; Manisha Girotra, managing director and head India at Moelis; Ankur Thadani, India head of TPG Growth and Rise; and Prashant Prakash, managing partner at Accel.<\/p>\n
The evaluation process followed a defined methodology. For the investment awards, transaction data was sourced directly from Tracxn. The largest deals executed during the past year were taken into consideration and subsequently split into different assessment categories.<\/p>\n
For the Company of the Year award, the evaluation was done for promoter-led listed companies that feature in the BSE100 index. These companies were assessed on the basis of shareholder value creation, operating performance and growth, capital allocation effectiveness, balance sheet and risk architecture, and corporate governance and transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the audience rose in unison and the applause swelled into a sustained, standing ovation, Aditya Puri \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[167120,22108,72,176,27234,61,167128,60,167125,137507,167122,167121,167123,167130,174,175,167124,167127,167126,167129,167131],"class_list":{"0":"post-372571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aditya-puri","9":"tag-bharti-airtel","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-hdfc-bank","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-india-venture-capital-awards","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-jb-pharma","17":"tag-kkr","18":"tag-kotak-mahindra-capital","19":"tag-mint-india-investment-awards-2026","20":"tag-mufg-group","21":"tag-peak-xv-groww-ipo-return","22":"tag-personal-finance","23":"tag-personalfinance","24":"tag-shriram-finance","25":"tag-tcs-hypervault","26":"tag-tpg","27":"tag-vc-exit-of-the-year-india","28":"tag-westbridge-rapido-investment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}