Karan Chopra has over 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Prior to joining Flagstaff Partners, Karan worked at J.P. Morgan for 10 years covering clients across natural resources, infrastructure, mining services and general industrial sectors
Karan has worked on a broad range of transactions including M&A, secondary equity offerings, high yield and investment grade bond offerings and joint venture structuring
Selected list of transactions include providing a fairness opinion to the Board of BHP in relation to the merger between BHP’s Petroleum business and Woodside (A$55bn), advising BHP on unification of its dual listed company structure (A$108bn), advising BHP in relation to the acquisition of OZ Minerals (A$10bn), advising a consortium on the acquisition of 50.4% interest in long-term lease of Endeavour Energy (A$7.6bn), Macarthur Coal on its sale to Peabody Energy (A$5bn), Mineral Deposits on its sale to ERAMET S.A. (A$632m), Paladin Energy on its sale of 25% interest in Langer Heinrich uranium project in Namibia to CNNC, Energy Resources of Australia on its A$476m renounceable entitlement offer, Atlas Iron on restructuring of its Institutional Term Loan and a debt for equity swap (US$267m), Fortescue Metals on its US Bond issuance (US$2bn), TransGrid on its US Private Placement (US$750m)
Karan holds a MBA degree in Finance and also completed CFA Level 3 (CFA Institute, USA)
Adviser to a consortium on the A$7.6bn acquisition of 50.4% interest in long-term lease of Endeavour Energy
Adviser to Macarthur Coal on the A$5bn sale to Peabody Energy
Adviser to Mineral Deposits on its A$632m sale to ERAMET SA
Adviser to South32 on the US$200m acquisition of Metropolitan coal mine from Peabody Australia
Adviser to Paladin Energy on the US$190m sale of 25% interest in Langer Heinrich uranium project in Namibia to CNNC
Adviser to Transfield Services on A$575m acquisition of Easternwell from Ironbridge and on the associated A$294m equity offering and the A$915m refinancing of existing debt facilities
Adviser to Energy Resources of Australia on its A$476m entitlement offer (2020) and A$500m entitlement offer (2011)
Adviser to Atlas Iron on the US$267m restructuring of its Institutional Term Loan into a new longer tenure loan and a debt for equity swap
Adviser to Paladin Energy on the US$300m convertible bond issuance and concurrent tender offer; A$61m strategic placement to HOPU and A$144m entitlement offer
Adviser to Fortescue Metals on the US$2bn US Bond issuance
Adviser to TransGrid on the US$750m US Private Placement
Adviser to Lynas on its A$450m equity raising