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Karan Chopra

Karan Chopra has over 14 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), 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 (US$190m), Atlas Iron on restructuring of its Institutional Term Loan into a new longer tenure 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)

EXPERIENCE

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

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