Manisha Girotra, 

Girotra says her bank doesn't place too much value on league tables, but that claim has hardly kept her away from deal street this past year. Girotra's boutique bank kept ticking with deals worth almost $4 billion, including UltraTech’s buyout of Jaypee's cement plant worth $1.4 billion, GMR’s sale of 30% in Tenaga for $300 million, and Intas Pharmaceuticals buying Teva’s assets. With the focus shifting to mid-sized transactions in the domestic space, Moelis had to build expertise for some sectors. “For domestic transactions, companies prefer to work with domestic banks. In that sense, it was a bit of a challenge to be part of these big deals. We hired and also trained the existing team,” says Girotra.