The firm · Founded 2011
Ownership
Kaveri & Rao is an LLP owned by its partners. We take no commissions from banks, funds or recruiters, so the advice we give a family has only one client in it.
Partners
Founding partner · Succession & governance · Mumbai
Anjali spent fourteen years in corporate law, the last six advising promoter families on shareholder disputes, before co-founding the firm in 2011. She has drafted family constitutions for more than thirty families and sits as an independent director on two listed boards. She writes about succession and the slow work of getting cousins to agree.
Founding partner · PE & IPO readiness · Mumbai
Vikram was a chartered accountant for nine years and an investment director at a mid-market private equity fund for twelve. He has sat on both sides of more than forty transactions and knows which questions sink a deal in its second week. He writes about capital, listings and what investors actually read.
Partner · Operations & margin · Chennai
Meera ran plants for an auto-components group in Hosur and a consumer-goods company in Puducherry before joining in 2016. She measures her work in cash released and has little patience for slides that cannot show it. She writes about working capital and the operating habits of family firms.
Partner · Growth strategy · Mumbai
Farhan spent a decade in sales and distribution at a large FMCG company, working his way up from a depot in Nagpur to running western and central India. He joined in 2017 to lead growth work for regional brands. He writes about categories, channels and the distributor’s view of a market.
Partner · GCC set-up · Chennai
Lakshmi set up and ran the Chennai engineering centre of a Swedish industrial company for eleven years, growing it to 1,900 people. She leads our work for foreign firms entering India and works in English, Tamil and German. She writes about cities, talent and the first hundred hires.
Partner · Growth strategy · Mumbai
Siddharth trained as an economist at the Delhi School of Economics and built consumer research teams in Kochi and Mumbai before joining in 2019. He runs the firm’s fieldwork, including the 2025 survey of 212 family businesses. He writes about demand outside the metros.
Offices
A converted mill building in Lower Parel. Succession, capital and growth teams, and the room where most family councils meet.
An old bungalow off Khader Nawaz Khan Road. Operations and GCC teams, and our fieldwork desk for southern India.
Most of our consultants have worked inside a company before joining: in a plant, a finance team, a family office. We value that more than a particular degree. You will spend a lot of time in Tiruppur, Indore and Chakan, and very little time making slides.
We publish openings in January and July. Outside those months, send a note with one piece of your writing to a partner of your choice. Every note gets a reply.
Current opening: Consultant, Operations & margin, Chennai. ₹24–32 lakh a year, depending on experience.
Contact
Tell us the situation in a few lines. A partner replies within two working days. Every first conversation is under NDA and costs nothing.
Or call the Mumbai office on +91 22 4970 2100, Monday to Friday, 9:30 am to 6:30 pm.