Nikita Shah

CORPORATE FINANCE | INVESTMENTS & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | CAPITAL RAISING & TREASURY

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Directs financial operations for a commercial brokerage business, overseeing monthly reporting cycles, liquidity planning, and transaction evaluations while coordinating closely with executive leadership to assess commercial feasibility across multiple trade structures.

• •Produces monthly management information systems reports, cash flow forecasts, bank reconciliations, and working capital analysis to guide leadership decisions.
• •Evaluates pricing models, operational margins, logistics requirements, letter of credit structures, and commercial feasibility for crude oil, sulphur, and iron ore trades.
• •Builds financial and commercial presentation materials for executive leadership and prospective business partners.

Directs monetization strategies and investor readiness for fintech and consumer clients across the UAE. Builds financial models, pitch decks, and fundraising materials while evaluating market entry feasibility and expansion projects.

• •Supports client meetings and investor outreach to secure capital.
• •Assesses go or no go decisions for regional and international expansion projects.

Directed capital structure strategy, debt syndication, and treasury operations within a diversified manufacturing and infrastructure group, reporting to senior leadership and overseeing complex financial transactions, credit rating assignments, and corporate restructuring mandates.

• •Structured 291M USD of sanctioned project term loans and working capital facilities, managing financial models, lender RFPs, pricing, covenants, and multi-banking consortium execution.
• •Managed cash credit, letter of credit, standby letter of credit, and bank guarantee lines, while leading credit rating exercises with CRISIL, ICRA, and CARE that achieved pricing reductions of up to 120 bps.
• •Contributed to the 152M USD NCLT acquisition of Sintex BAPL through valuation, bid coordination, documentation, closing, and liability discharge, earning recognition from the group chairman in March 2023.

Managed the documentation process for letters of credit, cash-credit facilities, and bill discounting, while producing fortnightly cash-flow forecasts. Evaluated credit facility expansion opportunities through demand, pricing, raw-material, competitor, capex, capacity, and financial-feasibility analysis to support the Strategy Head.

• •Resolved an export letter of credit discrepancy within one day, enabling shipment release and contract completion.
• •Deployed surplus cash into corporate term deposits after comparing multiple bank proposals.

• •Executed a 22M USD Yes Bank facility for a 37-screen cinema takeover, coordinating financial modeling, lender negotiations, documentation, security, and disbursement.
• •Managed post-sanction execution and administration of 58M USD in lease rental discounting facilities across multiple technology park properties, handling covenants and disbursements.

Boutique debt-syndication advisory firm

• •Executed USD 220M+ (INR 15B) of sanctioned debt mandates across healthcare, housing finance and agrochemicals; converted 8+ mandates to sanction and closed three transactions end-to-end.
• •Prepared information memoranda, credit notes, financial models and lender materials from origination to disbursement, including a ~USD 7.7M (INR 500M) term-loan and cash-credit package for a healthcare manufacturer.
• •Coordinated commercial, legal and lender workstreams and supervised two analysts.

• •Evaluates commercial feasibility for prospective crude oil, sulphur, and iron ore trades.
• •Develops financial and commercial materials for management and prospective partners.

• •Built integrated financial models covering occupancy, rental per MW or rack, power cost, CAPEX, OPEX, tax, depreciation, project or equity IRR, exit assumptions, and sensitivities.
• •Screened over twenty sites and operating assets using site visits, broker sourcing, and Cushman and Wakefield benchmarks, negotiating terms and recommending discontinuation of a high-cost Mumbai site after IRR analysis.

• •Structured 291M USD of sanctioned project term loans and working-capital facilities, covering financial models, lender RFPs, pricing, covenants and negotiations.
• •Managed post-sanction debt execution across consortium and multiple-banking arrangements, handling syndication distribution, facility documentation review, security creation, CAPEX-linked drawdowns, refinancing and annual reviews.

• •Resolved an export letter of credit discrepancy within one day, securing USD 2M of transaction value.
• •Deployed USD 6.4M of surplus cash into corporate term deposits after comparing bank proposals.

• •Executed a 22M USD Yes Bank facility for the takeover of 37 screen operations, coordinating financial modelling, lender negotiations, documentation, security creation, and disbursement mechanics.
• •Managed post sanction execution and administration for 58M USD in lease rental discounting facilities, handling covenants, documentation, charge creation, and credit rating coordination.

• •Executed USD 220M plus of sanctioned debt mandates, converting eight mandates to sanction and closing three transactions end-to-end.
• •Prepared information memoranda, credit notes, financial models, and lender materials, including a USD 7.7M term-loan and cash-credit package for a healthcare manufacturer.

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