Ayush Gupta is a Senior Analyst with around two years of experience in investment research, credit analysis, and M&A due diligence, working across debt funds, private equity, and early-stage investing clients.
He currently leads research and analysis for a US-based CLO debt fund client and supports private equity deal sourcing, owning the full workflow from brief to client delivery.
At Leading Financial Services, he challenged a $1.8B acquisition valuation by rebuilding revenue assumptions from actual retention data, helping his client close at $1.2B.
He also mapped misallocated debt spend at a distressed company to an operational gap, enabling a restructuring investment that the client has since turned around. He has built AI-driven automation workflows using Shortcut AI and ModelML, cutting research turnaround time by around 50% for his primary client.
