Nimesh Kampani

Nimesh Kampani (born 30 September 1946) is an Indian billionaire investment banker and financier. He is the chairman of the JM Financial group of companies. His personal wealth was valued at US$1.1 billion as of June 2025 making him the 83rd richest in India, at that time. The Kampani family's combined direct and indirect equity ownership of JM Financial Ltd is between 60% and 65%. Livemint called him along with Hemendra Kothari and Uday Kotak the "Three K's" of India's leaders in investment banking.

In 2014, the court named him as the mediator in the inheritance dispute between Shardul and Cyril Shroff over the law firm Amarchand Mangaldas, which at the time was India's largest.

Early life and education Kampani is a commerce graduate from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and is a Chartered Accountant CA from ICAI.

Career Kampani co-founded and led JM Financial, an investment bank founded in 1973, which in the course of his career he made into one of India's largest. Kampani co-founded JM Financial with his cousin, Mahendra Kampani. Kampani also advised Mukesh Ambani on the demerger of Reliance Industries following the split with his brother Anil Ambani, and later negotiated the deal between Diageo and Vijay Mallya. In April 2009, the Supreme Court of India granted a stay on Kampani's arrest on the charges of allegedly defrauding depositors of Nagarjuna Finance. Kampani returned to India in October 2009.

Personal life Kampani has two children.