StanChart launches Indian corporate advisory

Standard Chartered will offer corporate advisory in India after drafting in a series of hires to spearhead the new team. The group will advise on mergers and acquisitions and capital structures. The advisory team will be headed by V Anantharaman who joins from Deutsche Bank, where he headed the bank's Indian corporate finance group and prior to that co-headed the Asian technology investment banking group in Singapore. "The creation of a corporate advsory team in India is part of our…