Yash Ravel
Founder & Managing Partner
Clarity Capital is a specialist investments firm with three business lines: real estate investment management, real estate advisory & principal investments.
We are an independent team owned firm which aspires to be a preferred partner for clients, known by our deeply researched, quantitative and thoughtful approach to deliver innovative ideas that create outsized returns.
Our “process” is a result of our deeply rooted values.
Our North Star, Integrity above all else. There’s nothing else quite as valuable to us as being able to go to bed each night with a clear conscience.
We are independent, free thinking thought leaders in our areas of practice. We like to defy the “normal”.
We approach each transaction with a spirit of collaboration and fairness to create win-win outcomes for all stakeholders.
We put the clients interest at the center of every decision we make. We think of relationships as “decadal”, not transactional.
We believe value is created by doing better, not doing more. We are deliberate, not impulsive.
Our team is comprised of experienced professionals who have worked in senior and leadership positions with marquee brands like Morgan Stanley, Proprium Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs. Prior transaction experience of over USD850MM across market cycles, asset classes and investment structures.
Senior real estate professional with a total experience of 52 years across all aspects of real estate including acquisition, development, fund management and advisory.
Held several senior leadership positions including Executive Director at Piramal Fund Management, Managing Director at JP Morgan’s India real estate private equity fund business and CEO of SARE Group prior to which he has also served as President at Reliance Land Limited and CEO at Lokhandwala Constructions.
Clarity Capital’s Operating Partner Network brings together experienced industry leaders with deep domain expertise, networks and relationships to collaborate with the firm to source, underwrite and execute investment opportunities in their respective sectors.
Shantanu is an experienced real estate and infrastructure development professional with over 25 years of experience delivering complex projects across India and the Middle East. Over the course of his career, he has held senior leadership roles with global contractors and institutional real estate platforms including Carillion PLC, Leighton, LOGOS, and Welspun One.
Operating Partner – Projects & Development
Shantanu is an experienced real estate and infrastructure development professional with over 25 years of experience delivering complex projects across India and the Middle East. Over the course of his career, he has held senior leadership roles with global contractors and institutional real estate platforms including Carillion PLC, Leighton, LOGOS, and Welspun One.
Shantanu’s experience spans the development and delivery of a diverse range of assets including luxury hospitality resorts and convention centres, mixed-use developments, institutional-grade logistics and industrial facilities, data centre infrastructure, and large-scale commercial and residential projects. He has deep expertise across the full development lifecycle, including land evaluation, development feasibility, concept and design strategy, construction execution, and project delivery.
As part of the Operating Partner Network at Clarity Capital, Shantanu works alongside the firm on development-intensive and value-add opportunities, providing strategic development advisory and leading project execution where required.
| Particulars | Structure | Asset Class(es) | Investment (INR Cr)* |
Investment (USD MM)* |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equity joint venture investment in ~100 acre mixed-use project in South India | Equity | Residential mixed use | 450 | 90 | Exited |
| Equity joint venture investment in hospitality project in Western India | Equity | Hotel | 54 | 12 | Exited |
| Significant minority equity investment in a pan-India owner, developer and operator of hospitality assets | Equity | Hotel | 225 | 50 | Exited |
| Senior loan to a 2MM sf residential development in Mumbai | Structured Loan | Residential | 405 | 90 | Exited |
| Significant minority equity investment in a leading Mumbai based developer | Equity | Residential, Retail, Hotel, Office | 675 | 150 | Exited |
| Significant minority equity investment in a NCR based township developer with a focus on tier II locations in North India | Equity | Residential, Plotting | 270 | 60 | Exited |
| Significant minority equity investment in a leading developer in western India | Equity | Office, Hotel, Residential, Retail | 585 | 130 | Exited |
| Significant minority equity investment in a leading developer in south India | Equity | Residential, Retail | 270 | 60 | Exited |
| 12 warehousing parks across 6 cities pan-India | Equity | Warehousing | 1,450 | 170 | Exited |
| Senior loan against a 0.3MM sf office asset in Delhi | Structured Loan | Office | 193 | 35 | Exited |
* Investments translated to USD/INR at approx. exchange rate at time of investment
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