Thomas Loch Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

United Arab Emirates

As a Senior Managing Director of Rowdeston Capital Corp I have provide diverse investment banking services to both Western Canadian corporations and several international corporations with regards to mergers & acquisitions, strategic planning, and other financial advisory services.Core competencies include a creative mind set that has a solid track record in assisting its clients in identifying transformational transactions that add significant value for shareholders and / or extract maximum value for the assets successful management teams have developed.Solid track record of adding value for clients overseeing mandates to identify growth opportunities as well as selling businesses for attractive valuations. I have also identified transformational opportunities for companies I have founded and in the process secured financing for and exploited these opportunities. This has enabled me to add significant value for shareholders of both the private and public companies that I have assumed a senior management role in providing the strategic direction required to realize on the opportunities identified (Braveheart, Morumbi, Grail & Quarry).Recently completed an assignment for ATB, assisting them in evaluating creative alternatives to enhance their problem loan realizations by developing strategies and options for the underlying assets securing these loans that would seem their value and loan realizations improve over time rather than selling under difficult market conditions.Spent the past year formulating a comprehensive strategy for the Alberta Government to enhance GHG emission goals by pursuing a well thought out SMR Strategy that would dramatically reduce the provinces GHG emissions from oil sands operations.Currently advising a US SPAC to evaluate a transaction with a international energy company with conventional natural gas operations as well as aggressive plans to expand into the production of RNG from farm waste streams.

Calgary, Canada Area

Grail has originally set up to puruse a atrractive oil and gas acquisition of oil and gas assets located in Ontario. Although the opportunity was very attractive and a development plan was developed that offerred a great deal of upside potential timing with respect to the Bankruptcy process prevented Grail from having sufficient time to pull together the necessary financing.Identified undervalued deep sour gas property with significant reserve potential that also benefited from other value opportunities related to GHG storage and up hole lithium potential from salt water brines that reduce risk and improve the upside potential. This provided the foundation for a project to pursue greener diesel blends.Grail has spent the last several years developing various options for developing a greener diesel fuel that would greatly reduce the green house gas emissions attributable to diesel fuel. Although electric options are desirable for many traditional carbon based fuel applications such as traditional vehicle transport they are not a viable option for many heavy equipment related applications that must still rely on diesel fuel. Developing a greener diesel fuel option also has the added benefit of being able to be used in existing engine configurations as the cost of replacing existing equipment is prohibitive and in many cases greener fuel options such as electric is not feasible. The project has stalled as large diesel users lack the commitment to really look at innovative alternatives at this juncture.The sour gas property continues to have significant reserve upside but is better suited to be pursued once natural gas prices improve.https://www.grailng.com/

Private oil and gas company focusing on light oil opportunities in SE Saskatchewan. Secured highly prospective Missippian and Bakken acreage that offers numerous drilling opportunities. Working with various First Nations Braveheart identified unleased crown land that was the subject of a dispute between the provinical and federal governments. Consequently, the lands were not available for lease and Braveheart identified the most minerally prospective lands and approached several Saskatchewan First Nations to freeze these lands using thier TLE entitlements.Braveheart then secured surface title to the lands and agreed to transfer the surface title to the First Nations at no charge so that they could be converted to First Nation lands and in the process securing mineral title for the First Nation. Braveheart received a First Nation mineral lease on the lands in exchange for transferring surface title. Company was sold in 2014 before our first well was drilled to dominant players in SE Saskatchewan after reserves were evaluated on the lands that were valued at 5.0 x invested capital.

Identified oil and gas exploitation opportunity with the view to taking control of failed TSE listed compnay. Assumed COO role after securing financing to exploit oil and gas opportunity while looking to expand operations internationally in either oil and gas or mineral exploration opportunities in South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Idendified mineral exploration opportunity working with local land owners on the Island of Bougainville that was highly prospective for porphyry mineral opportunities. Bogainville is the site of the Panguna mine of the largest and most profitable gold and copper mines with remaining recoverable reserves of one billion tonnes of copper and 12 million ounces of gold, that has been shut-in since 1989 when local land owners rebelled against the enviromental distruction caused by the mine and the split of the profits with the local land owners who never relinquisted thier traditonal owners over their lands.Morumbi successfully negotiated exploration joint ventures with the assistance of Francis Ona with local land owners with the view to ensuring that they were able to fully participate in the mineral wealth underlying their traditional lands, Francis Ona was a local landowner and General of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army that fought for independence of Bougainville and a halt to the exploitation and environmental destruction of the Island of Bougainville. The local landowners also have asserted that the underlying mineral potential remained theirs to benefit from and exploit in an environmentally responsible manner.Remained on the Board of Directors but relinquished CEO role to individual leading the charge in negotiating with Bougainville landowners to demonstrate companies commitment to the project. Unfortunately political instability and lack of support from the Bougainville government prevented this project from coming to fruition and I left the company to pursue other opportunities .

Identified transformation acquisition for micro junior oil and gas company with $1.5 mm in cash and 75 boepd of production, negotiating the purchase from an industry major and putting together the financing to complete the transaction. After closing assumed Senior Management of the company and put together a operations and exploration team to exploit the assets acquired and to expand the companies opportunity base to natural gas exploration in NE B.C. based upon utilizing AVO seismic modelling of gething channels. Transformed the company increasing the production base through a combination of exploitation, drilling and exploration from less than 100 boepd to over 1,100 boepd even after spinning off some assets into a TSE listed shell company that realized $.20 in value for shareholders.Quarry was sold in mid 2003 for 6.5 x the price of the company shares traded at when I joined the Company. This was accomplished by building on solid oil production base that was acquired while expanding into full cycle exploration by securing 55,000 net acres of farm-in land in NE B.C. from a large US company targeting the Gething formation.

Investment Banker with small boutique Investment Dealer that was focused serving the junior oil and gas industry in Calgary. Established a strong M&A franchise for the firm acting in a advisory capacity to identify mergers and acquisitions opportunities as well as strategic advisory assignments that lead to the sale or divestiture of various clients assets or properties. Also assisted companies in accessing capital markets to fund future growth in reserves and production.Led and managed 80% of the M&A mandates secured by Jennings Capital over my tenor with the Company. Identified and structured a tax motivated acquisition that transformed Maximum Energy Trust with the purchase of a large working interest in the Weyburn filed from PanCanadian that was fully financed by the sellor. This transaction enabled the successor company Ultima Energy Trust to re-establish operating and financial momentum which led to its sale 3 years later at 3.0 x its starting value.Identified, evaluated and structure a transformation acquisition for another junior oil and gas company that set the stage for the formation of Provident Energy Trust.

In house investment banker assisting the Company to identify mergers and acquisitions opportunities working with divisional Vice Presidents to expand their business. Assisted Sherritt in several bond and equity financings to finance its aggressive growth plans. Led the team involved in overseeing the acquisition of Canada Northwest Energy Ltd. to expand Sherritt' s access to a Canadian natural gas production base to provide a natural hedge for its Fertilizer businesses heavy natural gas consumption. Assisted in Sherritt's acquisition of Esso Fertilizer operations which more than doubled production and lead to the spin out of a separate publicly traded fertilizer company - Agrium. Moved to oil and gas subsidiary to take more hands on Business Development role and took over marketing and hedging activities for the company. Oversaw the divisions strategic planning and budgeting function working closely with the divisional controller to oversee and evaluating the performance of the company. Implemented a pro active hedging program to take advantage of short term price spikes to improve performance.

Toronto, Canada Area

During tenor in Mergers & Acquisitions Department worked closely with Head of Department and Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Canada in analyzing and working on all of the firms high profile Canadian assignments working out of both Toronto and along with New York counterparts.Identified opportunity and assisted in the structuring of a transaction that enabled Falconbridge to repurchase 30+% control block held by Placer Dome at a greater than 15% premium to current market prices in order to thwart creeping take-over by Noranda.Devised strategy and arranged financing for a Management Buy-Out of DRG Canada Ltd. which involved financing a broad based management equity participation in sale using an innovative structure whereby the Company’s pension surplus was to be rolled into RRSP’s on conversion from a defined contribution plan to a defined benefit plan.While working on the Canadian restructuring portion of a large multi jurisdictional assignment for a large domestic pulp and paper company, I identified analytical shortcomings in the New York groups evaluation of a multibillion dollar acquisition of a US based white paper company. Re-assigned temporarily to the New York group to take over sole responsibility for the financial analysis of the $6.0 billion dollar acquisition by a Canadian pulp and paper company. Also worked closely with the New York leverage buyout group the following year on Merrill Lynch’s exclusive advisory assignment whereby, with the help of the Caisse de Depot (large Quebec based pension fund), a small public company Socanav (small great lakes shipper) completed a multibillion dollar acquisition of Steinberg’s, a Quebec based grocery store chain, that was also one of the largest holders of real estate in Canada. The real estate operations of Stenberg’s became the cornerstone of the Caisse de Depot’s real estate operations after being acquired from Socanav.