Hardik Mehta is an Investment Banking Analyst at Proficio Advisors in Mumbai, with roughly a year of hands-on experience across M&A execution, equity research, and deal origination. He completed an 18-month finance training program at Pinnacle Institute, one of eleven out of 250 who passed, covering CFA-aligned curriculum and practical exposure across public markets, private markets, and investment banking.

At Proficio, he owns the full deal cycle: sourcing acquisition targets, building financial models and pitch decks, managing buyer-seller communication, and drafting mandates and MOUs through to close.

He closed a facility management acquisition at an eight-times EBITDA multiple within roughly three months, handling everything from target screening to the memorandum of understanding.

On the research side, he built a detailed equity research report on the QSR sector, covering Jubilant FoodWorks, Westlife, RBA, and Devyani International across five years of earnings calls, KPI tracking, and valuation analysis. The report reached over five thousand impressions on LinkedIn.

He has also covered the healthcare and hospital sector, defense stocks, and new-age consumer brands.