Sheemul Valecha

Sheemul Valecha is a Managing Director at BDO Capital Advisors. As a senior member of BDO Capital’s investment banking team, she brings over 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience advising public, private, and founder-led businesses, as well as private equity firms. She advises clients on a full spectrum of investment banking solutions, including buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate divestitures, capital raises, and other strategic advisory services. Sheemul has extensive experience across the Consumer and Retail sectors including beauty, personal care and consumer health, food and beverage, franchising, and specialty retail-and has executed transactions totaling over $7 billion. 

Prior to joining BDO, Sheemul was a Director in the Global Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group at Bank of America, where she advised companies and private equity firms on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and debt and equity financing transactions.  Earlier in her career, she spent over seven years with the investment banking practice of a Big Four firm, focused on the Consumer and Retail sector. Sheemul began her career in the Business Valuation and Modeling group, where she specialized in valuations supporting mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, tax planning, and financial reporting across multiple industries.