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Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Lead the development of analytical tools allowing to determine the profitability of EIB's mandate activities.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Restructuring of senior and mezzanine debt and equity positionsSkills: (i) develop and coordinate cash flow, contractual, and technical analyses to assess risks and opportunities so as to devise optimal value preservation and recovery strategies, (ii) negotiate internally with legal, technical and credit departments negotiation mandates, (iii) implement target negotiation strategy with external partiesAsset classes: project finance debt, corporate finance debt, mezzanine debt, equity Industries: transportation, mining equipment manufacturing, food production, electronic payment systems.Geographic focus: Southern Europe, Morocco, Egypt, and Mauritania

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Origination and structuring of senior project finance loans Skills: (i) developed a network of contacts at industrial levels, within commercial banks and sister development financing institutions, and governmental/ministerial levels, and EU Delegations in Nigeria, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, (ii) developed and coordinated cash flow, contractual, and technical analyses to assess investment opportunities and identify necessary risk mitigants, (ii) negotiated internally with legal, technical and credit departments target term sheets, (iii) negotiated target term sheets with external parties.Asset class: project finance loans, corporate loans and technical assistanceIndustries: energy, telecommunication, civil aviation/aerospaceGeographic focus: Sub-Saharan Africa.

Paris, France

Skills: (i) developed and coordinated cash flow, contractual, and technical analyses to assess investment opportunities and identify necessary risk mitigants, (ii) negotiated internally with legal, technical and credit departments target term sheets, (iii) negotiated target term sheets with external parties. Asset class: senior structured corporate loans to State Owned EnterprisesGeographic focus: Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Skills: (i) elaborated transaction structures/financing solutions, (ii) performed cash flow modeling to test debt service coverage ratios, sensitivities to certain risk variables, and assess different debt amortization schedules, (iii) tested proposed products with rating agencies and relevant legal/tax/accounting internal or external adviser, (iv) marketed such ABS or structured securities products: prepared terms sheets and client proposals, (v) negotiated structural and financial transaction terms: positive and negative covenants, performance obligations, limitations on future investments and business activities, priorities of distribution in the cash waterfall, cash reserve accounts, events of default and early events of default triggers, (vi) conducted due diligence efforts, (vii) prepared offering documents and underlying legal documentation and performed the implementation and execution of transactions in conjunction with legal counsel: loan agreements, guarantees and pledges, servicing and trustee agreements, offering memorandum, (viii) worked with distribution teams to determine the most efficient/attractive markets for placement.Asset classes: asset backed securitiesIndustries: commercial real estate, gaming, municipal finance, whole business, aerospace.Geographic focus: USA, Latin America, and EuropeContexts: Acquisition finance, LBOs, first time asset financing and refinancing solutionsTarget markets: national and international private placements.

Washington, Dc

Assessed debt, equity, and structured finance investments in banks in emerging markets, and wrote pre-appraisal decision memos:• Analyzed profitability (e.g., ROE, ROA, net interest income, operating efficiency), liquidity (e.g., capital adequacy and current ratios) and credit risk (e.g., non-performing loans levels and coverage ratios) and identified areas to monitor and/or clarify with the client during the appraisal.• Identified strengths (e.g., leadership position, new market entry), weaknesses and threats (competition, currency depreciation, social unrests, political uncertainties) • Evaluated existing shareholders’ value added (know-how transfer, technical assistance, management guidance), behavior (passive or active), and most recent P/B ratios.

Paris, France And Boston, Ma

Identified and assessed M&A, LBO, and angel investment targets. Project highlights include:Assisted a leading financial services company in selecting M&A targets• Identified new lines of products and services to offer to existing customers, and identified new markets for existing products and services.• Sized the markets in question and estimated the market shares the client could win in each of them.• Evaluated the skills, technology and distribution networks needed to reach the targeted market shares and defined the ideal M&A targets’ profiles.• Searched M&A candidates and analyzed their business models, competitive positions, management, and historic financial performance.

New York, New York

Credit Analyst, Syndicated Loans Division • Prepared credit proposals for US companies operating in France or French companies operating in the US: wrote financial performance reviews, developed incomes statement balance sheet and cash flow models, valued companies through the Discounted Cash Flow and Multiples methods; gathered information at companies’ financial analyst conferences or at meetings with client companies’ CFOs.• Monitored existing loans: reviewed quarterly financial results and checked that loan covenants were met.• Portfolio risk management: updated information in risk management software (KMV) for all the client companies in the division’s portfolio.

New York, New York

• Assisted four traders in determining prices for foreign currencies in Latin America, Africa, the Middle-East, South and East Asia, and Eastern Europe.• Managed customer relationships in the midst of the Asian crisis.

Master Of Law And Diplomacy, International Business Law And Economic Development

Master Of Management Science

Mba, Finance