Abdul Rahim Butt

Current

Director & Head of Financial Institutions - Qatar at Standard Chartered Bank

Past

Director, Project & Export Finance, MENA & Pakistan - U.A.E. at Standard Chartered Bank
Vice President, Investment Banking Group - Pakistan at United Bank Limited
Senior Relationship Manager, Financial Institutions Department - Pakistan at Citigroup

Senior Transactor, Investment Banking Group - Pakistan at Citigroup
Transactor, Project & Structured Trade Finance, Asia-Pacific - Hong Kong at Citibank
Transactor, Project & Structured Trade Finance, South Asia & Africa - Pakistan at Citibank

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Education

Lahore University of Management Sciences
Government College University, Lahore

Connections

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Industry

Banking

Abdul Rahim Butt’s Summary

Head of Financial Institutions department, responsible for relationship management in the State of Qatar. Providing complete client solutions covering financial markets, transaction banking, lending, capital markets, corporate advisory and structuring strategies, together with team of product partners.

Cumulative deal volume of US$ 20 billion in various sectors, including power, water, ‎waste, refining, fertilizer, LNG, telecom (cellular and satellite), metals, ports, district cooling and ‎banking. Have ‎evaluated projects in 30 countries, and worked on deals in 15 countries over the past 13 years.

abdul-rahim.butt@sc.com , arahimbutt@yahoo.com

Abdul Rahim Butt’s Specialties:

Abdul Rahim Butt’s Experience

Director & Head of Financial Institutions - Qatar

Standard Chartered Bank

(Public Company; STAN.L; Banking industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Financial Institutions department head. Responsible for developing and executing business strategy; and uptiering relationships with commercial banks, Islamic banks, investment banks, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, investment companies, finance companies, leasing companies and exchange houses.

Providing complete client solutions covering financial markets, transaction banking, lending, capital markets, corporate advisory and structuring strategies. Enhancing client coverage together with team of product partners and the Standard Chartered Bank global network.
Director, Project & Export Finance, MENA & Pakistan - U.A.E.

Standard Chartered Bank

(Public Company; STAN.L; Banking industry)

2004 — 2009 (5 years )

Senior Director, responsible for originating, structuring and executing Project Finance advisory and debt arrangement transactions in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan.
Deal experience covers private sector, public infrastructure and PPPs. Worked on projects in power, water, waste, ‎refining, fertiliser, LNG, telecom, metals, port & district cooling sectors in Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi ‎Arabia & UAE.
Vice President, Investment Banking Group - Pakistan

United Bank Limited

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Team Leader, heading the Advisory and Equity team, responsible for setting up the corporate advisory and equity capital markets business.
Range of transactions included Leveraged and Management Buyouts, Privatisation Advisory, Equity IPO’s and Pre-‎IPO’s, Private Equity, Corporate Restructuring and Mergers & Acquisitions. ‎Worked on projects in the telecom, FMCG, I.T., fertiliser and textile sectors.‎
Senior Relationship Manager, Financial Institutions Department - Pakistan

Citigroup

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Senior Relationship Manager, responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with banks, insurance companies, leasing companies and micro-finance institutions.
Managed a suite of products and services, including Trade limits for LCs, Risk sell down via participations, US$ clearing/ trade ‎services, Cash management & e-Banking, Structured/ plain vanilla Treasury and Loan products.
Senior Transactor, Investment Banking Group - Pakistan

Citigroup

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Senior Transactor, responsible for originating, structuring and executing Corporate Finance / M&A transactions in Pakistan and the Gulf/Levant region.
Focus on energy, chemicals, telecom and banking sectors. Deal experience covered Privatisation Advisory, Mergers & ‎Acquisitions, Debt Syndication, Securitisation and Capital Restructuring.
Transactor, Project & Structured Trade Finance, Asia-Pacific - Hong Kong

Citibank

(Public Company; C; Banking industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Transactor, responsible for originating, structuring and executing Project Finance advisory and debt arrangement transactions in the Asia-Pacific.
Worked on projects in power and refining sectors in the Philippines and Thailand.
Transactor, Project & Structured Trade Finance, South Asia & Africa - Pakistan

Citibank

(Public Company; C; Banking industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )

Junior Transactor, responsible for Project Finance advisory and debt arrangement transactions in ‎South Asia and Africa.
Worked on projects in power, water and petroleum ‎sectors in Egypt, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Uganda.

Abdul Rahim Butt’s Education

Lahore University of Management Sciences

MBA , Finance , 1996
Government College University, Lahore

BSc , Mathematics and Physics , 1992

Additional Information

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Speaker at the following conferences: - Power in Asia Conference : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. - Middle East & North Africa Fertilisers Conference : Abu Dhabi, UAE. - Global Infrastructure Finance Conference : Geneva, Switzerland. - Middle East Capital Markets Conference : Dubai, UAE. - Shipping Finance Conference : London, UK.