Levin T.

The group is one of Malaysia’s largest conglomerates with diversified interests spanning various business sectors and a prominent global presence. I help evaluate investment opportunities and leads investment execution; set up and led the solar C&I platform within the group; Also looks at financial/strategic investors partnerships, M&A and business development in sectors including infrastructure, water and energy . Serves as nominee director in the boards of portfolio companies.

Projects Advisory and Business Development

CAEPCO. JSC is the largest private electricity and power corporation in Kazakhstan

Business Development team for Asia and Middle East business unit. Explored investment opportunities in industrial & gas terminals as well as new infrastructure solutions in the areas of low-carbon and renewable hydrogen (ammonia, liquid hydrogen, LOHC), liquid CO2, and sustainable feedstocks/biofuels in Southeast Asia. Also evaluated investment opportunities in startups/scaleups of new technologies/emerging value chains for Vopak Venture (Vopak Corporate Venture Capital).

TRG is a leading global specialized asset management firm focused on investing in emerging markets (AUM c.USD8 billion as at Apr 2023). A key member of the Private Market investment team, focused on managing infrastructure PE activities of TRG in Southeast and Central Asia (CapAsia). Explored private credit opportunities in Southeast Asia.

CapAsia, majority owned by TRG is an award-winning private equity firm managing multiple infrastructure funds investing in Emerging Asia with South East Asia as a home market. Founded in 2006, the firm has raised in excess of USD 500 million in capital. Closed follow-on investments; active portfolio management and closed divestments of funds’ investments in Southeast and Central Asia. Nominee director on the board and management committees of investee companies; Also managed GP/LP relationships/reporting and ESG officer responsible for ESG initiatives, compliance as well as reporting for investee companies and managed funds.

Deal sourcing, evaluation, structuring, due diligence, term sheet negotiation, execution and portfolio management of infrastructure investments in Southeast Asia; Closed investments in telco tower platform in Vietnam; Closed mezzanine follow-on investment to scale up solar projects platform in Malaysia; Closed full divestment from shariah-compliant fund investment in Kazakhstan; Participated and shortlisted in various bid processes in infra subsectors including power, renewable energy, telco towers in Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

SunEdison was the largest global renewable energy development company then with focus on solar and wind assets. [EPC business]: liaised with supply chain and procurement team for construction cost, formulated commercial terms as well as priced and tendered EPC Contracts, Supply Agreements, O&M and Technical Service Agreements for solar projects in Thailand and Philippines respectively. [Development business]: Evaluated greenfield acquisition opportunities, joint ventures, structured cash neutral strategy for equity capital with EPC pricing, project financing - managed lenders due diligence process, negotiated commercial terms of project documents. Successfully closed c.US$110m project financing for 18MWp and 59MWp solar FiT projects in Thailand and Philippines respectively. Also evaluated economics of different technologies i.e. solar fixed tilt vs. tracker system and analyzed solar tariff proposals for new market in Indochina.

CapAsia is a private equity firm investing in the infrastructure sectors in Southeast Asia and Central Asia. Assisted in fund raising process of fund 3. Evaluated, participated in term sheet negotiations, financial modeling, managed due diligence process, structuring, documentation, closing as well as participating in formal bid processes in SEA deals. Closed and managed infra investments including equity investments in wind farms in Pakistan, an integrated utility company in Kazakhstan, portfolio of toll road assets in Indonesia and mezzanine investments in a portfolio of solar FiT projects across Malaysia and Thailand. Also evaluated and managed due diligence process of investment opportunities and transactions across Southeast and Central Asia for both conventional and shariah-compliant Islamic infrastructure fund.

Fieldstone is a boutique investment banking firm based in New York with a focus on energy and infrastructure advisory. Selected power and infra advisory including: advised MOF (IPP) on the PPA negotiation and closing (tariff, TOP ramp-up off-take volume, fair risk allocations and key commercial terms) against SEB (off-taker) for a 8x300MW hydroelectric dam IPP project, largest in Southeast Asia; advised Energy Commission on their first ever IPP competitive bid process for the first ever 1x1,000MW ultra super-critical coal-fired IPP in Malaysia in 2011(advised a fair and balanced commercial terms for the template PPA and CSTA between the energy commission, off-taker/national utility and IPP, created evaluation template based on levelised tariff and formulated conditions for 2-tier tariffs structure); performed independent valuation for a 4x360MW coal-fired IPP facility in India; advised on a bidding strategy and bid tariff for the leasing proposal of 40 locomotives to a national rail company; and in project development, negotiated and closed PPA commercial terms and off-take tariff, project documents and project financing for a greenfield 100MW CCGT IPP project in Sabah. Also performed independent assessment of investment banks' financial models for regulators/govt bodies overseeing the country's IPP framework and 1st gen PPA extensions; conducted training sessions for Energy Commission of Malaysia on financial modelling and project finance 101 for power generation projects.

Maybank Kim Eng is a leading investment bank in ASEAN. In Corporate Finance, executed and closed capital raising and M&A transactions for listed companies with real assets business on Bursa Malaysia including: • Capital Restructuring for a listed toll-road concession company • Initial Public Offering for a palm oil machinery manufacturing company • Secondary Offering for a listed regional property developer • General Offer Acquisition of a listed transportation company Rotated to Client Coverage and Debt Capital Market divisions for 3 months and involved in credit approvals process for corporate lending of major accounts as well as briefly involved in bonds issuance structuring and execution process

Dissertation on the effects of international portfolio diversification through listed country-focused Investment Trusts available in the UK and conducted research of the extent portfolio managers of major investment funds implement dynamic asset allocation i.e. periodic portfolio allocation adjustments with reference to the theoretical optimal asset allocation strategy (efficient frontier).

For final year project (1st class grade), coded a working program with AMPL, a mathematical programming language to construct a library of basic functional programs templates with specific Data Envelopment Analysis ("DEA") building blocks reusable for the construction of complex problem-solving programs involving efficiency measurement (DEA is a major research area within the Operational Research and Management Sciences group of Warwick Business School). Data Envelopment Analysis is a non-parametric methodology in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers used to empirically measure productive efficiency of decision making units with real world applications in various industries.