Faisal Tahir Bhatti Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

HQ M&A at Masdar

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Leading Tabreed's regional business development ambitions, exporting the proven business model to MENA, Asia Pacific and beyond• Preparing go-to market strategies for new markets including a re-engineering of the establish business model to fit new markets • Built up a pipeline of over $500m of capital deployments opportunities in MENA• Built up an ecosystem of consultants, suppliers and OEMs to support Tabreed’s regional ambitions• Secured long term investment partnerships for market entry in 2 target countries

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Key member of Tabreed's business development team focused on sourcing, negotiating, financing and executing greenfield projects and M&A deals• Lead/develop research and analytical reports on potential market opportunities for organic growth or growth by partnership including analysis of competitive environment and market trends to support informed decision-making• Responsible for sourcing new projects, identifying M&A targets, in existing and new markets• Responsible for all aspects of transactions including due diligence, modelling, presentation and Management buy-in• Presented a market entry strategy for Egypt for the Management and Board of Tabreed• Sourced and added over $500m+ of projects to the development pipeline• Led and closed a $100m+ M&A deal to acquire an operational asset in Abu Dhabi• Led and closed lucrative “tie-in” opportunities with a large real estate developer in Dubai• Led a consortium team consisting of ENGIE and Orascom to successful submission to a district cooling tender in Egypt, offering the lowest tariff

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Responsible for leading and delivering ad-hoc projects related to business and strategic initiatives as part of the long-term plan of the Company• Developing business and development models designed to provide market intelligence to determine the effect of changing factors on organisation’s business over a given period of time• Project lead and worked directly with C-suite for a landmark $750m+ transaction leading to acquisition of 40% stake in Tabreed by French energy giant, ENGIE at a 40% premium to market price • Led the marketing, valuation, due diligence and deal close work streams for the above project engaging with multiple large institutional investors and their financial, technical and legal advisors• Led and closed a $400m refinancing unlocking over $140m of new debt capacity from existing assets, won the GFC Local Currency Deal of the Year award• Integral team member and led valuation work on a $560m contract negotiation with a customer in 2015• Integral team member on a $850m refinancing of corporate bank debt in 2014• Integral team member and led the valuation work on a AED 1bn mandatory convertible bond repurchase in 2015• Led the asset impairment analysis, involving valuing installed asset portfolio, including external review from 2014 to 2016 • Team player working with various functions across the organisation to identify value addition opportunities• Internal IFRS expert and delivered solutions to highly technical accounting issues related to leases, refinancing, hedges etc• Integral team member in review and overhaul of Tabreed’s long term budgeting and planning process and designed a financial model and related reports to assist in strategic decision making and control• Developed financial models and led valuation work on various other projects of over $1 bn in aggregate

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Established an investor relations work function in the Company from scratch, building investor data base, marketing the firm and managing investor relationships• Worked directly with the Communications and CFO and engaged regularly with the C-suite on IR matters• Developed an effective IR strategy covering aims, desired shareholding structure and shareholding mix, outreach initiatives and key operational and financial events required for growth• Developed equity story and institutional investor outreach program to enhance Tabreed’s market profile• Analyst coverage of Tabreed increased from 1 to 4 due to informed and accurate information sharing and effective dissemination of equity story, currently in discussions with 3 further analysts• Foreign and Institutional ownership increased by 100% and 10% respectively as a result of outreach• Planned and executed Tabreed’s attendance at its first investor conference in 2015, multiple further UAE and regional conferences since • Worked directly with sales desk of various brokers to arrange non-deal road shows and equity pitches• Contributed to over 200% increase in new investor meetings with some of them taking sizeable positions post meetings• Working on overhaul of the IR section of the corporate website, winning the DFM IR website of the year award

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

During my 7 year association with Ernst & Young, I led audit and consulting work for over 50 entities in the UAE, part of service delivery teams for over 200 audits in UAE and Pakistan• Originated and led work on an asset capitalisation framework project for electricity distribution and transmission companies in Abu Dhabi• Led advisory assignment for a utility provided in Abu Dhabi for developing budgetary standards and performance monitoring framework• Led complex accounting and modelling work on various audit clients for valuations, impairments and credit risks• Presented audit issues and conclusions to C-suite, Audit Committees and Board of Directors• Led the assimilation of big data and data analytics in the audit practice and acted as the subject matter expert

Karachi, Pakistan

Cpa, Accounting And Finance

Investor Relations, Finance, General

Associate Member, Accounting And Business/Management

Certified Valuation Analyst, Business Valuation

Uae Chartered Accountant, Accounting And Finance

Associate Member, Accouting, Management And Finance

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Applied Accounting

Associate Member, Audit, Accounting And Business Management

High School, Computer Science