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Partnership. Performance. Purpose.
Three Pins Capital is a boutique financial services firm incorporated in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), United Arab Emirates. We believe in performance- and purpose-led partnerships with our clients, delivering differentiated services through our extensive network and deep industry expertise.
As a prudential category 3C firm regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), we are licensed to provide the following financial services:
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Managing collective investment funds
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Advising on financial products
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Arranging deals in investments
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Arranging credit and advising on credit
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Our Goal
Our Goals
Provide differentiated services focused on Fund Management and Advisory, leveraging our network of relationships and proven experience in growing and managing successful businesses in the financial services sector.
Sponsor and manage a suite of funds as a trusted investment product provider for our investor clients - consistently delivering on their investment objectives while navigating market cycles and minimizing adverse risk outcomes.
Advise, partner and collaborate with select individuals, corporates and institutional clients throughout their lifecycle in relation to investments, corporate finance, fundraising and treasury/risk management challenges.
Our Offerings
Our Offering
Fund Management
Drawing on our experience in portfolio management, structuring and trading across asset classes, we sponsor, develop and manage investment funds in regulated jurisdictions across multiple asset classes and diverse investment strategies.
Our Fund offerings are directed exclusively at investors designated as Professional Clients or Market Counterparties, as defined under DFSA Rules, including Institutional Investors. We are not authorized to deal with Retail Clients.
For more information on our Funds click here. Please note that by clicking here you confirm that you qualify to be a Professional Client or Market Counterparty, as defined under DFSA Rules.
Advisory Services
We integrate our expertise across financial markets, private and public loan, bond and equity markets, and mergers and acquisitions to meet clients’ corporate finance, fundraising and risk management needs in select industry sectors and geographies on both the buy- and sell- sides.
We advise, market and distribute select third-party funds and authorized financial products to our clients in select jurisdictions.
Our Advisory Services are offered exclusively to Professional Clients and Market Counterparties, as defined under DFSA Rules.
Our Leadership
Our Leadership
Rajat Kumar
Managing Director, Senior Executive Officer
Rajat is a financial markets professional with over 30 years of experience in Banking.
He started his career with ANZ Grindlay’s Bank in Mumbai and then continued with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) post the Grindlays acquisition in 2000. Rajat was instrumental in building the securities trading business in India and was a Director on the Board of the Primary Dealership joint venture with UTI Securities (Standard Chartered UTI Securities India Pvt. Ltd). He was also responsible for managing Standard Chartered Bank’s fixed income business relating to origination, sales and trading in local currency bonds and loans in India.
Post his move to Dubai in 2006, Rajat set up a new business for SCB - the Rates business and in particular the local currency derivatives business in Africa. He also played a key role in deepening the FX and Rates markets in the Africa region and helped build the Bank into a dominant liquidity provider for both onshore and offshore clients. He then transitioned to an AME (Africa & Middle East) regional role as the Head of Macro Trading between October 2015 and July 2018 when he took on additional responsibility as the Head of Financial Markets, AME Region – a position he held till he left the Bank in December 2021. Under his leadership, SCB made significant progress in building a reputable position in Financial Markets in Africa and the Middle East.
Rajat is a B Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT, Bombay and an MBA from IIM, Bangalore.
Virinchi Narayan
Managing Director, Head of Advisory
Virinchi is a corporate advisory and financial markets professional with over 25 years of experience spanning general industry and investment banking across projects, commercial, corporate advisory, capital markets, principal investments and financial markets.
Virinchi has delivered numerous impactful M&A, fundraising and advisory engagements across diverse industry sectors and client segments in Asia and Africa. In his most recent role, Virinchi helped build and lead structured credit, structured rates & FX and corporate equity derivatives businesses for Standard Chartered Bank in Asia and Africa.
Prior to SCB, Virinchi served as Executive Director responsible for origination and structuring of investments in India with the Morgan Stanley's Strategic Finance Group; Executive Director responsible for investment banking and mergers and acquisitions with Merrill Lynch and Associate Vice President responsible for mergers and acquisitions at Lazard.
Prior to his banking career, Virinchi worked at Unilever India (Commercial Function and M&A/ Investor Relations) and ABB India (Engineer, Industrial Automation and Drives).​
Virinchi is a B Tech (Electrical Engineering) from IIT, Bombay and an MBA (Finance and Marketing) from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
Ram Mohan Nataraja
Managing Director, Head - Fund Management
Ram Mohan is a senior finance professional with over 20 years of experience across public and private markets, global fixed income portfolio management, private credit and private equity investments, special situations and distressed asset investments, C-suite management, financial restructuring advisory and transaction advisory.
Ram Mohan began his career in 2001 with ICICI Bank Treasury and his last engagement was in the Proprietary Trading Group. In 2006, he moved to Dubai and joined Standard Chartered Bank, where he was instrumental in setting up the Middle East and Pakistan fixed income trading desk.
He followed this up with a 7-year stint at Invest AD - Abu Dhabi Investment Company (a Sovereign Wealth Fund), where he was a Portfolio Manager and managed the fixed income trading and investment books of the firm. In addition, he was also responsible for managing multiple discretionary portfolio management mandates originated from marquee Abu Dhabi institutions.
Transitioning into Corporate Finance, Ram Mohan worked with a boutique transaction advisory firm in Dubai handling all aspects of transactions including business development, due diligence, deal documentation, deal negotiation and legal documentation. He also served as the Group Chief Financial Officer of Manappat Group, a 40-year-old diversified local group with business interests in construction and contracting, food distribution, general trading, automotive R&D, SaaS and visual merchandising across UAE, Oman, Qatar, India and UK.
Prior to joining Three Pins Capital, Ram Mohan was Chief Operating Officer at Sirius Capital, a Dubai based boutique firm focusing on principal investments in special situations and distressed assets, corporate restructuring advisory and NPA portfolio management. As part of Sirius Capital, Ram was a General Partner in Sirius Special Situations Fund, a closed-ended investment company organized under DFSA/DIFC laws.
Ram Mohan is a CFA charter holder, holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Trichy.
Our Guiding Principles
Purpose
We engage with and serve clients focused on long-term value creation and impact - both economic and environmental - on their served communities and stakeholders.
Collaboration
Our client engagements are founded on the core principle of Collaboration. We draw on our expertise and extensive resource base – our network of relationships with experts, industries and geographies - to ensure positive outcomes for our clients.
Independent Advice
Our approach to client engagements is premised on independence and absence of conflict, with laser focus on delivering client objectives. We believe that each client and each engagement is unique and deserves independent focus, exceptional execution and customized solutions.
Long-Term Focus
We think of our clients as long term partners. We are committed to delivering lasting positive outcomes and growing with our clients over different stages in their lifecycle.
Guiding Principles
Contact Us
Contact Us
Unit OT #02-44, Level 2
Central Park Towers
Dubai International Financial Centre
PO Box 454 201
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
+971 4 549 9700
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