Major Transactions

• Analyzed financial model and investment proposal to construct a power plant worth 1.4 billion US dollars in Sharjah. (IRR 11%, 20-year time frame, the final partnership deal SPV structure - 80% debt and 20% equity)

• Researched infrastructure investment funds with a target annual rate of return of 9 to 10 percent over a 3 – 5-year investment horizon.

• Analyzed new venture investment proposals for investments worth $ 3 million in the automobile solutions company and Information technology service provider.

• Prepared financial model and feasibility report for $ 1- 50 million investment into building an Industrial Park, fish farming, student housing, vertical farming, and wastewater treatment plant.

• Reviewed financial model for the desalination water plant worth $ 600 million in Sharjah and investment proposals for further expansion in the company's existing aviation, banking, and real estate subsidiaries.

• Researched investments in the listed equity market with a target annual dividend yield of 3 to 5 percent with stable capital appreciation to generate a 10 to 12 percent annual return over a 3 to 5-year investment horizon.

Team Coordination

• Led a team of 3 members to do sector-specific research, analyze macroeconomic trends, identify new business opportunities, and evaluate fund-of-fund investment proposals.

• Member of the team that coordinated with Banks to raise term finance to fund investment deals and finalize the prospectus to issue debt securities to fund large investment projects in Sharjah.

Research Reports

• Prepared Sharjah sector-specific research reports on healthcare, power, water, real estate, infrastructure, and tourism. The purpose of these reports is to highlight demand-supply gaps in the above sectors for possible investment opportunities in the United Arab Emirates. 

• Used third-party platforms such as Bloomberg, Fitch Solutions, Moody’s, Euromonitor, and Research Reports to gather data for research.

Specialist – Risk and Control  

• Conducted yearly exercises to analyze possible fraud risk scenarios to implement cross-checks while executing investment transactions.

• Led the SSIs (Standard Settlement Instructions) centralization project to centralize tens of thousands of SSIs in eFront and SimCorp.

Specialist - Corporate Actions              

• Member of a 5-member project team responsible for automating and digitizing the corporate action process into Imactions and SimCorp.

• Automating the corporate action process saved an average daily printout of 700 pages. It shortened the approval process from days to minutes for all the corporate action events for ADIA’s holding in equity and fixed-income securities. 

• Led the project team for the implementation of a new investment product, CFDs (Contract for Differences), for investment hedging.

• Due diligence visits at the Bank of New York, Manchester, UK, to review corporate action & class action services provided for the investment products. On-site project testing at Dublin, Ireland, for automation of corporate action process in ImActions.

Associate - Trade Settlement 

• Member of a project team responsible for straight-through processing of external trades and settlement messages from SWIFT reporting. Straight-through processing automated the capture of almost 95% of external trades.

• Due diligence visits at State Street, Edinburgh, UK, and JP Morgan, Glasgow, UK, for reviewing the custody & settlement services process for the company’s investment accounts for investments in European equity markets.