Shishir Bhargava is a Managing Director at Ankura based in Washington, DC. He advises clients on transactions and their post-deal governance in the energy, natural resources, and technology sectors. His transaction experience includes developing deal strategies, screening investments, structuring and restructuring joint ventures, and minority equity investments. He also helps companies build transaction capabilities and negotiate better outcomes. Prior to Ankura, Shishir worked at IBM where he led JV and partnership deals and at Hero MotoCorp of India, the world’s largest motorcycle manufacturer, which was established as a joint venture with Honda Motorcycles of Japan.
View Full Profile
This article argues it is time to bring greater rigor, independence, and comparative data to measuring the state of governance in joint ventures. The Joint Venture Governance Index is an objective and powerful way to do this.
The purpose of this note is to briefly describe common gaps in how JV Directors are selected for most JV Boards, and to share what best practice looks like for JV Boards to play a proactive role in shaping their future composition.
The purpose of this note is to describe how companies go astray with the Shareholder Representative role, and to outline workable models when companies want to designate a Shareholder Representative.
The purpose of this note is to summarize our benchmarking of 45 natural resource sector JV agreements with regard to definitions of the annual operating plan and budget process, and to put forward a set of practical process improvement suggestions that can be adopted without opening the legal agreements up for re-negotiation.
