Niranjan Kasi

Niranjan is a Director in Accordion’s Transaction Execution practice with experience across transaction advisory, corporate strategy and planning, and financial risk management. He supports sponsors and management teams on complex transactions, including sell‑side readiness, diligence support, and merger integration for private equity‑backed platforms in technology, business services, and retail marketing. ​

At Accordion, Niranjan leads and supports workstreams focused on financial analysis, equity story development, preparation of transaction materials, and transaction execution planning. He serves as a lead on sell‑side readiness and diligence efforts, coordinating inputs across finance, operations, and sponsor teams. In these roles, he helps clients translate strategic objectives into structured workplans, transaction narratives, and clear, decision‑ready outputs for boards and investment committees. ​

Before joining Accordion, he spent four years at Houlihan Lokey valuing complex businesses and securities, analyzing transactions, advising on alternatives, and rendering fairness and solvency opinions across spin‑offs, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, ESOPs, joint ventures, and board and special committee engagements. Earlier in his career, he worked as a market risk analyst at Barclays on the traded credit desk and in corporate strategy and planning at Edelweiss, where he led market analysis and risk valuation to support expansion of its bullion and agricultural commodities businesses.

Niranjan holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California, a B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Mumbai, and the Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) designation.