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Innovative Investments. India's Growing Markets.
Eight Innovate Investment Trust I is a SEBI-registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund (reg. IN/AIF2/18-19/0584), registered in October 2018 and managed by Eight Innovate Investment Trust I. The fund focuses on innovative investment opportunities in India, deploying an activist and control-oriented investment strategy. The firm provides financing — high-coupon super-priority loans combined with equity — to financially distressed but viable companies, enabling balance sheet restructuring and turnaround. Investment focus is on industrial and cyclical sectors with consolidation potential. The Eight Innovate Investment Trust I investment approach requires deep domain expertise, patience for thorough analysis, and strong relationships with banks, regulators, and market participants — the firm has maintained a team of 14+ professionals in Mumbai to execute complex restructuring transactions across all phases of the credit cycle.
Eight Innovate Investment Trust I focuses on innovative investment opportunities in India, deploying an activist and control-oriented investment strategy. The firm provides financing — high-coupon super-priority loans combined with equity — to financially distressed but viable companies, enabling balance sheet restructuring and turnaround. Investment focus is on industrial and cyclical sectors with consolidation potential. The Eight Innovate Investment Trust I investment approach requires deep domain expertise, patience for thorough analysis, and strong relationships with banks, regulators, and market participants — the firm has maintained a team of 14+ professionals in Mumbai to execute complex restructuring transactions across all phases of the credit cycle.
Ravi Chachra
Co-Founder & Senior Principal
Ravi Chachra is a Co-Founder and Senior Principal of Eight Capital Group. He is a pioneer and early entrant in India's distressed debt market, having invested in public and private debt and equity-linked securities across sectors for over 15 years. He was an adviser to the authors of India's Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code and to members of the Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee. Prior to co-founding Eight Capital in 2005, he worked for over a decade as an investment analyst and portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, TCG, and J. Goldman & Company in New York and London. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Vikram Chachra
Co-Founder & Senior Principal
Vikram Chachra is a Co-Founder and Senior Principal of the Eight Capital Group, co-leading the firm's distressed and special situations investment strategy in India since 2005.
Indranil Das
Director / SEBI Contact Person
Indranil Das is the SEBI-designated contact person for Eight Distressed Investment Trust I at Eight Capital Advisory Services Private Limited, Mumbai.
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