Sahiba Agarwal

Sahiba has worked across several sectors from traditional financial institutions to fin-tech; retail and tech platforms. She has been involved in mandating governance frameworks for investee companies on behalf of funds.

Some of the notable cases she has worked on include: 

• Led a financial fraud investigation basis a whistleblower complaint for an e-commerce conglomerate valued at ~$1Bn. with presence in over 20 countries 
• She was instrumental in defining an in-depth governance framework (defining board composition, committees, risk management guidelines among others) for a fund which had over 350+ portfolio companies located across India and APAC markets
• Undertook an in-depth review on behalf a newly licensed financial institution (public sector bank in India) to identify and define the risks associated with various customer groups and outline the risk mitigation strategy 
• Led a buy side diligence on behalf of 2 large funds for a round size of over $100Mn. for an India focused fin-tech platform which has over $3Bn. asset under advisory 
• Conducted a pre-IPO diligence on one of India’s leading insure-tech platform which got listed at a valuation of $3Bn.
• Created a robust compliance framework - including pre and post investment strategies - to be adopted by a global fund in India which involved detailing out nature of diligences to be conducted basis investment stage; need for continuous monitoring measures and categorizing investments on the basis of industry risks. 

She is a Chartered Accountant from the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and holds an MBA in finance from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.