SRIDHAR C. NIVARTHI

Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) · ISB Executive MBA Alumnus Strategist · M&A Advisor · Business Transformation · Financial Restructuring · Board Advisor

For more than thirty-five years, Sridhar C. Nivarthi has operated in the engine rooms of Indian and international business — advising boards, restructuring balance sheets, leading cross-border M&A, and steering enterprises through their most consequential inflection points. A Fellow Chartered Accountant with an Executive MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and deep domain experience earned across Big4 firms, CFO mandates, and independent directorships, Sridhar brings a rare combination of technical rigour and boardroom wisdom to every engagement.

After three decades in practice and leadership, he founded Sthira Advisory on a single conviction: that the most complex financial and strategic challenges are best navigated by an advisor who has lived them — not observed them from the outside. He works with boards, promoters, investors, and family businesses who require not just analysis, but judgment.

Period	Role · Organisation
Since Nov 2021	Strategic Advisor · Kashvi Group, Bhubaneswar, Odisha M&A strategy, debt raising, investor relations, PE fund management and portfolio restructuring across APAC
Apr 2021 –Present	Independent Advisor & Mentor · Freelance / Sthira Advisory Corporate advisory, business restructuring, change management, M&A integration and mentoring of emerging finance leaders
Jan 2019 – Mar 2021	Director · Arthit Capital Master Fund Pte. Ltd. (under Gordian Capital Singapore) Strategic investment planning, private equity fund management, regulatory compliance, APAC M&A transactions
Aug 2017 – Mar 2021	Director / CEO · Intra-Asia Trading Pte Ltd, Singapore Financial advisory, business restructuring, process improvement, risk mitigation and structured fundraising
Jun 2012 – Jun 2017	Director – Finance & CFO · Coastal Projects Ltd, Hyderabad (EPC & Infrastructure) Led INR 5,000 Crore Corporate Debt Restructuring across 36-lender consortium; scaled working capital limits from INR 2,850 Cr to INR 4,250 Cr
Jan 2006 – Jun 2012	Senior Manager · Deloitte Haskins & Sells (Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu — UK), Hyderabad Transaction advisory, due diligence, forensic audits; large listed and unlisted Indian corporates and MNCs across manufacturing, IT, ITES, infrastructure and power
Aug 2004 – Jun 2005	Manager (Assurance) · · Lovelock & Lewes (PricewaterhouseCoopers Associate), Hyderabad Statutory audit, assurance and advisory services
Sept 2002 – Jul 2004	Audit Manager · RSM & Company (PKF International), Muscat, Oman International accounting, US-GAAP, IAS and IFRS; Indian and MNC corporates in manufacturing, IT and infrastructure
Apr 1990 – Aug 2002	Partner · Chaturvedi and Partners, Hyderabad Built and led the Hyderabad branch from inception — grew from 3 clients to 50+ over 10 years across audit, tax and advisory
Aug 1985 – Mar 1990	Manager · Chaturvedi and Partners, Chennai Foundational practice in audit, accounts and financial advisory

₹5,000 CRORE

Corporate Debt Restructuring

Coastal Projects Ltd · Hyderabad · 2012–2017

Convinced a 36-lender consortium to approve a complex restructuring package — including conversion of unsustainable debt into long-term bonds and quasi-equity — while simultaneously managing Corporate Debt Restructuring worth INR 5,000 Crores, securing additional fund-based limits of INR 140 Crores and non-fund-based limits of INR 500 Crores.

Working capital limits scaled from INR 2,850 Cr → INR 4,250 Cr

Academic Qualifications

Professional Memberships

M&A Advisory

Strategy, target screening, due diligence, transaction management, synergy planning

Financial Restructuring

Debt restructuring, CDR, NPA resolution, turnaround management

CFO & Board Advisory

Strategic financial oversight, P&L management, investor relations, governance

Business Transformation

Process reengineering, change management, technology-led finance transformation

Fundraising & Capital

Raising debt, equity and hybrid capital from domestic and international investors

Forensic & Due Diligence

Forensic accounting, fraud investigations, commercial due diligence

The Philosophy of Sthira and Vridhi Sridhar founded Sthira Advisory on the foundational principle that true, expansive growth (Vridhi) is impossible without steadfast stability (Sthira).

In today’s volatile economic landscape, companies often aggressively pursue expansion or face unexpected market distress without a solid operational and financial foundation. Sridhar’s advisory approach is rooted in providing that unshakeable foundation. Whether structuring a multi-generational succession plan for a family business or optimizing the capital structure of a distressed asset, his focus remains entirely on protecting shareholder value and ensuring corporate resilience.

Areas of Expertise:

Having lived inside that system — the boardrooms, the restructuring rooms, the lenders’ consortiums — and having watched India’s enterprise culture from the inside for three decades, Sridhar stepped back after the pandemic to do what he could no longer do from within a corporate mandate: say it plainly, advise freely, and build with conviction. He works today as a trusted advisor to boards, promoters, investors and family businesses who need not just analysis, but judgment forged through experience. “Rooted in Wisdom, Committed to Resilience.”