Rakesh Sharma

Current

• Senior Specialist at IDFC

Past

• Deputy Manager at Credit Analysis & Research Limited
• Assistant Manager at Torrent Power Generation Limited

Education

• Sydenham Institute of Management Studies
• K.J.Somaiyya Senior College of Arts & Commerce

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Industry

Investment Banking

Rakesh Sharma’s Summary

Experience spans across project conceptualization, project development activities, commercial and financial analysis, advising infrastructure projects and financial advisory services across a wide spectrum of sectors (Power, Hospitality, Textile, etc). Currently working on advisory transactions in Mumbai at IDFC Limited. Work involves business development (seeking Advisory mandates for the company), structuring transactions (incl. capital structuring & key contract structuring) and appraisal of projects for funding & syndication of debt.

Rakesh Sharma’s Specialties:

Financial Modeling, Project Structuring, Capital Structuring, Credit Analysis.

Experience in advising various non-recourse projects incl. contract structuring. Successfully piloted several projects from concept stage to bankable stage.

Financial modelling (Additional training from Euromoney Experts).

Excellent communication skills.

Efforts resulted in procuring several prized advisory mandates for IDFC for limited/non-recourse projects. Currently working on 3 Advisory mandates.

Rakesh Sharma’s Experience

• Senior Specialist

  IDFC

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Investment Banking industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Exposure to Energy Sector
  
  Business Development for new business in terms of scouting, service offering and execution
  
  Execution of mandates in terms of structuring deals, negotiations, documentations etc.
  
  Advisory assignments such as project appraisals, feasibility studies, enterprise valuation, bid process management and risk management strategies.
  
  Management/execution of assignments for time bound completion
  
  Financial modeling and analysis. Debt & Equity transactions.
  
  Business Development for new assignments.
  
  Exposure to sectors like Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Infrastructure (Power), Steel, Textile etc.

• Deputy Manager

  Credit Analysis & Research Limited

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  September 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 1 month)

  Advisory assignments such as project appraisals, feasibility studies, enterprise valuation, bid process management and risk management strategies.
  
  Management/execution of assignments for time bound completion
  
  Financial modeling and analysis.
  
  Business Development for new assignments.
  
  Exposure to sectors like Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Infrastructure (Power), Steel, Textile etc.

• Assistant Manager

  Torrent Power Generation Limited

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  May 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  Project Development - Project Finance and Commercial
  
  Involved in conceptualizing and drafting of commercial terms and conditions (RFQ & RFP process) for award of turnkey EPC contract on "International Competitive Bidding" (ICB) basis;
  
  Formulation of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between distribution utilities of Torrent Group (Ahmedabad Electricity Company Ltd. & Surat Electricity Company Ltd.), and Torrent Power
  
  Conceptualizing and preparation of Information Memorandum for potential Equity and Debt investors in the project;
  
  Developed the Financial Model for determination of Power Tariff under various anticipated scenarios and sensitivity of the same to various assumptions;
  
  Analyzing regulatory environment concerning a Generation company;
  
  Reviewing various discussion papers floated by concerned regulators & preparing adequate responses; and
  
  Conceptualized and formulated the recently floated global tender for “Supply of Natural Gas/LNG/RLNG/RSRT Services” to TPGL

Rakesh Sharma’s Education

• Sydenham Institute of Management Studies

  PGDBM , Finance , 2001 — 2003

• K.J.Somaiyya Senior College of Arts & Commerce

  B.Com , Commerce , 1994 — 1999

Additional Information

Rakesh Sharma’s Interests:

Swimming and Sleeping

Rakesh Sharma’s Groups:

•    Sydenham Institute of Management Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship Education (SIMSREE)
•    Sydenham Institute Of Management (SIMSREE) Alumni Group
•    Global Infrastructure & Project Finance

Rakesh Sharma’s Honors:

Recipient of National Scholarship for Merit Rank in B.Com from University of Mumbai

Rakesh Sharma’s Contact Settings

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