Vaibhav Kapoor

Head of Corporate Coverage, NBB UAE

2023 - Current

Director - Loan Origination, Syndications & Debt Capital Market

2018 - 2023

Establishing the loan syndications & DCM platform under the new Corporate & Investment Banking strategy of the bank. Aim to be one of the leading debt & capital advisory and loan syndication platform in the GCC.

Angel Investor

2020

Angel Investor in various seed and growth stage startups across Fintech, D2C, E-commerce etc. India Portfolio: # Melorra (D2C, Ecommerce) # KarmaLife (Fintech) # COGOS Technologies (Logistics) # Financepeer (Fintech) # BASIC Home Loan (Fintech) # Scripbox (Fintech) # Evenflow (Ecommerce) # BluSmart (Mobility) # Tagz Foods (D2C, Healthy Snacks) # Curefoods (Cloud Kitchen) # Flickstree (Video Commerce) # Stage (OTT for Bharat) # Clean Electric (EV battery) # Glamplus (e-commerce) # Spandan (healthtech) # Geekster (Edtech) # Falca (Agritech) # Huvi Air (SaaS for construction management) MENA Portfolio: # MarketForce (fintech)

Principal, Debt - Investment Banking

2014 - 2018

Heading bank muscat's Debt Investment Banking team providing clients debt finance solutions including advisory, syndication, debt capital markets, project finance, subordinated & structured products, Islamic financial advisory and similar transactions. Introduced several first-of-their kind transactions in the GCC region including taking debut borrowers to public and private markets together with capital structure advisory and rating advisory. Debut USD bond issuance by an Omani GRE, jumbo multi-tranche USD bond issuances by the Government, debut sukuks in local and USD bond space, largest ever syndicated loans in power, oil & gas sectors amongst others. Total debt raise of USD 11.5 billion across 17 transactions in 4.5 years in the role. Managed a multi-million dolla P&L, guiding on origination-to-execution of all mandates and leading business development initiatives.

Associate Director, Corporate and Infrastructure Ratings

2013 - 2014

Member of Credit Rating Committee. Manage a portfolio and team of analysts rating large corporates in power, oil and gas and fertiliser sectors. Publish opinion pieces and articles on developments in the sectors under coverage and macro-economic trends etc.

Manager, Corporate & Infrastructure Ratings

2011 - 2013

Carrying out fundamental research for assigning credit ratings and publishing credit rating reports for large corporates in the oil & gas, power and fertiliser sectors. Creating financial models, cash flow analysis & earnings projections, and sensitivity analysis of ratings to industry, counter-party, liquidity, foreign exchange and other related-risks.

Rating Analyst

2009 - 2011

Fundamental analysis for assigning credit ratings & publishing credit reports.

Summer Internship during MBA

2008 - 2008

Project on State Finances Study'08: Introduced Principal Component Analysis to design a Credit Performance Index (CPI) used as a proxy for risk assessment of securities - State Development Loans and State Guaranteed Bonds - issued by state governments.

Independent Strategy Consulting Assignment during MBA

2007 - 2008

'Opportunity Analysis of Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFC) in India' to identify diversification/investment ideas for Lodha Group into the sector.

Business Manager

2006 - 2007

Responsible for setting up operations in the Indian market for Himal Southasian - a South Asia centric socio-economic-political magazine based out of Nepal.

Analyst

2005 - 2006

Responsible for delivering compensation & benefits benchmarking projects for clients in Europe and South East.