About
Professional Summary
Piyush is responsible for developing Capital Markets Business in India.
Piyush is leading the Client acquisition, developing institutional relationships with Indian and Global Funds, Sovereign Funds, Banks, NBFCs, AIFs for Capital Markets Business
With close to 19 years of experience, Piyush is an industry veteran with proven expertise in real estate investments, asset management and exit strategy, deployment and business development. With experience of investing of US$ 2 billion, Piyush is leading Colliers’ Capital Markets business in India and strengthen the market position of the organization with a clear focus on servicing our clients across the spectrum.
Accomplishments
Piyush joined Colliers from Piramal Capital in February 2020 where he was managing the Debt and Equity portfolios across various Real Estate asset classes. Having executed over US$ 2 billion deals in his vast and illustrious career, Piyush has witnessed the entire cycle of investments from deal origination to exit. At Piramal, he was handling large portfolios across the residential & commercial assets including large corporates and SMEs.
Education
Piyush, a first attempt Chartered Accountant and a rank holder Cost Accountant by qualification, has managed all aspects of deal making including origination, execution, closure and exits. He has handled large high performing Investment teams across various asset classes. He has been involved in set up of a Sovereign Fund platform.
He has strong relationships with Large Real Estate Players, large institutions along with strong market knowledge and understand granular requirements and underwriting which helps in forging partnerships, joint ventures, Equity participation.
Memberships & Involvements
- Avid runner - ran several full and half marathons
- Playing music (Keyboard) and listening to classical (Indian and Western)
- Like to travel mainly unexplored locations by road trips
- Like to Meditate/ Spirituality
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Expert in transactions, managing corporate clients, asset management, finance negotiations, etc. I have been in Real estate industry over 27 years in real estate; out of which 18 years have been focused on Capital Markets services, and been part of organisations like C&W, BNP Paribas, Equis Corporation and the likes.
Have ~15 years work experience having worked with FIs like Piramal, SBI and Axis Bank.
Have gained expertise in real estate investments, syndication, sourcing, structuring and exits.
Have strong relationship management skills having given end to end solutions to the customers.
With over 13 years of real estate experience, Vilas is a seasoned real estate & investment banking professional with a varied experience across the real estate and finance sector. In his current role with the Colliers International, his key responsibilities are:
- Land advisory (Disposition, JV’s, JDA, DM etc.)
- Capital raising (Construction Finance, Structured Debt / Equity, LRD)
- Investment Sales (Income Yielding assets)
- Data Center Advisory
His client base includes large corporates, Institutional investors, private equity funds, insurance companies, real estate developers and family offices/HNI’s.
Vilas has started is his real estate career with JLL in Mumbai in 2008, where he was part of Occupier Solution Business during his tenure of around 8.5 Years, he has sucessfully concluded transaction upword of 1 Mn SF.
Prior to leading business for Capital Markets & Investment Services for Colliers International in Pune, Vilas has been associated with Cushman & Wakefiled for 4 years. In his role he has service various developers / corporates for disposition of land and real estate assets on Outright / JV / JDA & DM Basis also assisted various developers for raising the captial.
His Core competencies are;
- Corporate Finance
- Investment Advisory
- Asset divestments
- Commercial real estate