Deal Intelligence & Advisory

Intelligence that survives the investment committee.

Deal research, transaction support, and carbon diligence for private equity and M&A teams, built by operators who have sat on your side of the table.

13+ years across investment banking, private equity and financial services Mandates across M&A, carbon markets and market research Research live on SSRN Delhi NCR, working cross-border
AKIVA STRATIQ
FINANCIAL ADVISORY · CARBON MARKETS · GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
CARBON MARKETS RESEARCH
The Flight to Quality
The Emergence of High-Integrity Frameworks in Global Carbon Markets
Sahana KCarbon Markets Fellow, Akiva StratIQ · June 2026
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The Flight to Quality

How the voluntary carbon market repriced integrity, and what it means for buyers and developers.


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Capabilities

Three practices. One standard.

Deal & Transaction Advisory

Screening, research, modelling, and transaction materials for live mandates.

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Carbon Markets & Energy Transition

Deal people who understand carbon. Diligence-grade analysis of carbon revenue and credit quality.

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Market & Portfolio Intelligence

Sector monitoring, regulatory intelligence, and AI-enabled research workflows.

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Why Akiva

Built for scrutiny.

Buy-side and sell-side DNA.

Founded by an operator with over a decade across investment banking and private equity, who ran PE and VC delivery at institutional scale before building Akiva. We build what we once signed off on: work that holds in the investment committee, not just in the deck.

Senior hands on every mandate.

No leverage pyramid, no hand-offs. The people who scope the work do the work.

Defensible by default.

Every figure sourced, every assumption stress-tested, every deliverable built to be interrogated. If it cannot be defended, it does not ship.

We publish under our own name.

Our research goes out signed, on SSRN and in the market. Vendors hide behind NDAs; advisors take positions.

The Akiva 3D Model

Discover. Design. Deliver.

Discover

Deep market, sector and operational analysis

Design

AI-augmented solutions tailored to IB / PE workflows

Deliver

Agile, high-impact execution

Selected Work

Proof, without the names.

Sell-side M&A · Southeast Asian technology groupCarve-out structuring support across three business units. 178-name buyer universe across five markets. IC-grade financial summaries in dual currency.
Carbon markets research · GlobalThe Flight to Quality: institutional analysis of high-integrity carbon frameworks. Published June 2026, live on SSRN.

Mandate details are published only to the level confidentiality permits.

The Akiva Intelligence Engine

Our finance-native AI workspace compresses the research cycle, with senior review setting the standard. No third-party AI on confidential data: your governance, our execution.

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