Loredana Yamada, Mba, Cfa Email & Phone Number

Northbrook, Illinois, US

• Proactively identified new business opportunities in emerging clean energy space. Developed actionable market demand/supply analyses, assessed policy drivers, selected partners/customers. Presented to leadership, sent.
• Contributed to strategic partnership and joint venture for multibillion $ investment, participating in negotiations for customer offtake agreements, plant construction and operation contracts, and ancillary service.
• Evaluated strategies/technologies to lower carbon footprint including power purchase agreements, renewable energy certificates, carbon capture and sequestration, green/blue hydrogen & ammonia production, Inflation.
• Played a pivotal role in contract negotiation processes by proposing pricing structures, volume commitments, new solutions, to ensure favorable economics and sound agreements aligned with company’s long-term strategic.
• Appraised investments to expand product offerings and geographic presence via greenfield/brownfield strategic projects. Considered regulatory and tax aspects, value chain issues, new technologies, governance, risk.
• Led due diligence and financial analysis efforts for $1.7 billion acquisition of ammonia plant, including assessment of operational assets, financial performance, and integration opportunities. Maintained pulse beyond.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Corporate Strategy and Portfolio Optimization
• Initiated and championed roadmap to pursue revenue diversification in high potential areas/products to leverage company's value proposition: delivered and presented market analysis and customer and competitor.
• Contributed to exiting products/geographies in rapid steps by identifying strategic options to maximize cash in.Mergers and Acquisitions/Investor Relations
• Executed critical M&A initiatives by leading & partnering with broad cross-functional teams: found targets/buyers, even beyond core markets, conducted strategic assessments, due diligence, negotiations. Size: $10-$530.
• Supported Investor Relations by monitoring and assessing changes and trends in peers’ performance and our stock ownership: investor style, activism, geography, peer buyers/sellers, short interest, analyst coverage.
• Structured and managed carve-out divestitures by soliciting the contributions of external advisors and internal colleagues. Negotiated legal documentation and navigated transitional services, antitrust concerns, R&D.

Provided advisory services for start-ups including modelling, identifying risks and opportunities, value-creation solutions, stakeholder engagement, data interpretation, budgeting, supporting strategy implementation. KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, Evanston, IL Wrote teaching case under Professor James Shein, Professor of Management & Strategy: “Sara Lee: a.

Chicago, IL, US

• Investment Evaluation
• Developed complex long-term planning financial models to evaluate business value and forecast impact on credit ratings, dilution/accretion, capital structure. Drove prioritization of resources with recommendations to.
• Demonstrated best in class & drove change in risk adjusting valuation frameworks by finding creative solutions to add currency, inflation, and political risks to WACC. Organized poll of peer companies for best.
• Oversaw Sara Lee’s capital structure, including $7 billion debt portfolio: drove smooth rolling of maturities by creating database to track all parts and proactively seeking approvals and alternatives for refinancing.
• Arranged over $5 billion in US/Euro financing. Recommended timing, size, currency of debt issuances, selected lead/co-managers, prepared road shows, coordinated legal/accounting requirements, facilitated due diligence.
• Decreased interest expense by $20 million by researching, quantifying debt buy-back alternatives. Fast track approval achieved by collaborating with bankers, internal partners, and advocating with senior.

Chicago, IL, US

• Analyzed 50+ acquisition/divestiture candidates with sales ranging from $1 million to up to $3 billion in retail, food, CPG, food industries: o built complex models for discounted cash flow valuation with different.
• Found potential targets by keeping up to date on industry news and analyzing markets, competitive structure, key products, players, future trends. Mapped product market shares to proactively avoid monopoly legal issues.
• Managed and improved all data gathering of clients/outside sources by creating an information classification system, saving time in accessing information.
• Prepared divestiture presentations for Board of Directors, approached potential acquirers and investigated interest for businesses.

New York, NY, US

• Associate, Corporate Finance Department, US Markets
• Analyzed and wrote presentations on share repurchases, M&A financial consequences and financing alternatives.
• Managed financial, legal and syndicate issues, and conducted due diligence and authored sale memorandums for equity and debt offerings and IPOs, each up to $250 million, by partnering with clients.
• Conducted due diligence and prepared sale memorandum for Precision Response Corporation $167 million equity offering.
• Executed spin-out of J&L Direct Distribution from Kennametal through $100 million equity offering: performed due diligence, helped lawyers draft prospectus and wrote sales memorandum.
• Managed financial, legal, and syndicate issues in $250 million notes for Brunswick Corporation.

New York, New York, US

• First European analyst granted third-year position, selected 1 of 3, out of 25, to transfer to New York.
• Solved pre-internet problem of obtaining timely, targeted and actionable local market data by proactively initiating and developing new, strong contacts in partnership with Brazilian and Portuguese associations.
• Performed M&A valuations by building complex models in food, CPG, retail, paper and auto parts industries. Evaluated opportunity for investment in plant by modelling alternatives and quantifying costs.
• Managed legal, syndicate aspects of $500 million global bond for Republic of Argentina. Supervised analyst and logistics of roadshow presentation, prepared sale memorandum working with the country’s reps and legal.
• Evaluated principal investment opportunity through extensive due diligence and building leveraged buy-out financial models. Participated in negotiations with owners of companies in retail and braking system industries.
• Managed financial, legal and syndicate issues of first privatization in Italy executed through global equity offering of $1 billion. Performed valuation and wrote sale memorandum for Credito Italiano.

Mba, Business, Management

Ba, Business Administration And Management