Kaz Shakir has been a corporate development and strategy executive, and an investment banker for the past 18 years. He
has advised numerous management teams and Boards Of Directors of Fortune
500 companies on
- the issuance of over $10 billion of debt and equity
securities,
- the acquisition of companies and assets,
- and the sale
companies and assets.
Some of his former transactions include:
- Mirant’s
sale of selected generation assets,
- Dynegy’s acquisition of generation
assets from Central Hudson,
- a major power company’s bid for DPL Inc.,
- NRG’s purchase of generation assets from First Energy,
- an Independent power company’s bid for Cogentrix,
- a major utility’s bid for Florida Gas
Transmission pipeline,
- El Paso Corp’s sale of it’s contracted
generation assets,
- the sale of Valley Resources, a regional natural gas
distribution company;
- and equity, convertible and fixed income
(investment grade and high yield) transactions for AGL Resources,
Reliant Resources, Mirant Corp, Southern Company, Progress Energy, FPL
Group, Cinergy Corp, Western Resources, IDA Corp, CLECO Corporation.
Mr. Shakir earned a Bachelor Of Business Administration from the
University Of Texas At El Paso; and earned a Master Of Business
Administration from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School Of
Management.
