IPO Readiness
Assess listing eligibility, governance, disclosures, cap table structure, and financial preparedness. This service helps management teams identify gaps early and build a cleaner path toward filing.
Work with S45 for structured IPO advisory in Ahmedabad, from readiness and DRHP preparation to pricing, distribution, and post-listing support. For promoter-led businesses across Ahmedabad and wider Gujarat, we bring AI-led analysis, SEBI-aware execution, and a disciplined process designed to reduce delays, surface gaps early, and help management teams approach Main Board or SME listing with greater clarity.

End-to-end IPO advisory for Ahmedabad companies preparing for Main Board or SME listing in India's public markets.
Assess listing eligibility, governance, disclosures, cap table structure, and financial preparedness. This service helps management teams identify gaps early and build a cleaner path toward filing.
Prepare and coordinate DRHP and RHP documentation, data room workflows, SEBI query handling, demat setup, and filing support with tighter version control and accountability.
Support valuation framing, investor demand mapping, anchor strategy, roadshow planning, and category-wise bookbuilding across QIB, NII, HNI, and retail participation.
Guide eligible companies through NSE and BSE Main Board listing requirements, institutional positioning, regulatory preparation, and execution planning from mandate to listing.
Advise growth-stage SMEs on NSE Emerge or BSE SME pathways, including market maker coordination, lot size modeling, liquidity planning, and migration readiness.
Extend support beyond listing with investor relations planning, liquidity monitoring, institutional outreach, and SME-to-Main Board migration strategy where relevant.
S45 helps Ahmedabad companies prepare for public markets with a disciplined, end-to-end approach that combines readiness diagnostics, regulatory coordination, pricing support, and investor mapping. Whether you are evaluating an SME issue or a Main Board route, our process is built to catch disclosure and governance gaps early, reduce workflow chaos, and give founders, CFOs, and boards clearer visibility from first assessment through post-listing investor relations.

See how disciplined IPO execution helps issuers move faster and approach the market with confidence.
S45 combines investment banking discipline with AI-led workflows built for modern IPO execution.
Mandates typically move from first call to signed engagement in seven days.
Live workflows reduce document chaos and give Ahmedabad management teams clearer execution control.
Mapped access to 50,000+ investors supports stronger demand planning across issue categories.
Built around SEBI-aware processes, cleaner drafting, and evidence-linked disclosure preparation.
Founder-led bankers with operator experience.

Founder
Deepank Bhandari is a Co-Founder of S45, India's first AI-native investment bank dedicated to transforming IPO execution in India's public markets. Drawing from his background as an IIT Delhi engineer who raised venture capital on campus and scaled operations to $25 million, Deepank brings firsthand knowledge of how the best Bay Area teams operate and applies those principles to India's capital markets. At S45, he channels his engineering mindset and entrepreneurial experience into building proprietary analytics and AI-driven workflows that eliminate chaos from the IPO process. Deepank is committed to delivering faster, cleaner, and more disciplined execution for founders and investors alike, ensuring every mandate is handled with precision, transparency, and institutional rigour.

Founder
Pankaj Harlalka is a Co-Founder of S45, bringing over 22 years of experience in India's capital markets to the firm. Throughout his career, Pankaj witnessed firsthand how good companies stumbled through broken workflows, lost documentation, and unclear pricing during their IPO journeys. Driven by a conviction that the process needed fundamental reinvention, he co-founded S45 to pair deep sector expertise with proprietary AI-powered analytics. Pankaj oversees institutional relationships and ensures that every engagement reflects S45's core values of transparency, regulatory respect, and disciplined pricing. His extensive market knowledge across 12 industries and his commitment to keeping founders and investors free from unnecessary noise define his approach to investment banking.

Founder
Aman Singh is a Co-Founder of S45, an operator-turned-banker who brings rare, ground-level perspective to the IPO advisory process. Having personally navigated the experience of scaling an SME to $60 million and attempting to list it, Aman encountered the brutal realities of disorganised disclosures, lost communications, and opaque pricing that plague traditional IPO execution. That experience became the founding conviction behind S45. At the firm, Aman leads with an operational mindset, ensuring that every client engagement moves from first call to signed mandate with speed and structure. His dedication to building clean, disciplined books and delivering predictable outcomes makes him a trusted partner for founders preparing for India's public markets.
An IPO consultant helps your company prepare for listing by assessing readiness, identifying governance and disclosure gaps, coordinating DRHP drafting, supporting pricing and investor strategy, and managing execution through filing and listing. For Ahmedabad businesses, this is especially useful when deciding between SME and Main Board routes, aligning internal teams, and preparing for SEBI-facing documentation with fewer last-minute disruptions.
Speak with our team about readiness, filing, and listing strategy.
Works with Category-I merchant banker partner.
Technology-led workflows for cleaner execution.
Backed by institutional investors publicly displayed.
Share your company stage, listing goals, and timeline. Our team will review your requirements and help you understand the next practical steps toward IPO readiness.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +91 95879 52454.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at +91 95879 52454.