JOVAN P. VOJVODIC
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EXPERIENCE
*/**** – Current SELF EMPLOYED Houston, TX
Private Investor
§ Public and private securities investing, real estate investing and occasional consulting to small business
8/2010 – 8/2011 MADISON WILLIAMS AND COMPANY Houston, TX Managing Director - Head of Oilfield Services Investment Banking
§ Responsible for building M&A advisory and capital markets franchise servicing public and private oilfield service companies for Madison Williams, an affiliate of Houston- based Sanders Morris Harris Group (NASDAQ “SMHG”)
§ Additionally, serve as senior execution banker for Madison Williams’ upstream and midstream energy M&A transactions involving public entities
§ Engaged on several ongoing oilfield service sell-side M&A transactions or IPOs ranging in size from $20mm to $500mm+ with private equity portfolio companies, private/family owned businesses or subsidiaries of existing public companies
§ Clients for engaged transactions include down-hole tool manufacturer, PDC drill bit manufacturer, offshore rig and platform design company, land rig logistics service provider and pressure pumping service provider
4/2000 - 4/2010 MORGAN STANLEY & CO. New York, NY
Managing Director, Investment Banking - Global Power & Utility Group
§ Client coverage responsibilities include: investor-owned utilities, merchant energy companies, renewable energy companies and private equity firms
§ Lead role in developing transactions involving a combination of investment banking, commodities and structured finance; act as liaison among these different groups to develop integrated solutions such as mergers, acquisitions, equity and debt financings, securitizations and power contract restructurings
§ M&A execution experience: advised on several publicly announced transactions, involving public companies, private companies and generation/transmission assets ranging in size from $50 million to over $40 billion (selected transactions listed below)
§ Financing experience: lead execution roles in IPOs, high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, high-yield bridge loan commitments, private equity investments, follow-on equity offerings, equity block trades, mandatory convertible offerings, commodity and interest rate hedging advice and execution (selected transactions listed below)
§ Training and recruiting: involved in training for Analysts and Associates, formal mentor to several junior bankers; member of University of Chicago MBA recruiting team
§ Selected to serve on investment banking year-end Compensation and Promotion Committee
§ Promoted to Managing Director in December 2005; joined group as Associate in April 2000
8/1998 - 4/2000 MERRILL LYNCH
Associate, Investment Banking - Global Power Group
§ Client coverage responsibilities include: investor-owned utilities
§ Responsible for financial transaction analysis and development of marketing materials supporting senior industry bankers – significant experience in generation asset divestitures and restructurings driven by utility industry deregulation STRATEGIC TRANSACTION EXPERIENCE
§ Constellation Energy’s $5.0 billion nuclear JV with EDF
§ Constellation Energy’s $30 billion merger with FPL Group (terminated)
§ $40 billion acquisition of TXU Energy by KKR, TPG and Goldman, Sachs
§ Singapore Power’s acquisition of TXU Australia for A$5 billion
§ Restructuring advisory assignment for PPL resulting from deregulation in Pennsylvania, creating a newly-deregulated generation subsidiary, PPL Energy Supply; transaction involved a complex series of steps which resulted in the creation of a new capital structure at PPL and PPL Energy Supply
§ Southern California Edison’s sale of Mohave power plant to AES (terminated)
§ Niagara Mohawk’s sale of generating asset portfolio to Orion Energy, NRG, others
§ KeySpan Energy’s purchase of Ravenswood Generating Station for approx. $600 million
§ Sale of Superior Wind Energy to Babcock & Brown
§ Represented multiple utilities in several attempted corporate mergers and asset acquisitions
§ Represent several oilfield service companies in sell-side transactions currently in the market
FINANCING/RISK MANAGEMENT TRANSACTION EXPERIENCE
§ Calpine Corporation: $2.3 billion high yield notes offering for CalGen
§ TXU Energy (dba Energy Future Holdings): $30 billion+ debt financing transaction comprised of funded and unfunded bank lines and high yield capital markets debt
§ PPL Energy Supply: $600 million debt Initial Public Offering
§ PPL Electric Utilities: regulated utility ring-fencing and securitization
§ International Transmission Company: Initial Public Offering
§ Capstone Microturbine Company: Initial Public Offering
§ Lead manager on multiple book-run secondary common equity and mandatory convertible debt offerings for PPL, PNM Resources, FPL Group, AES, Calpine, others
§ Lead manager on multiple capital markets debt offerings for PPL, FPL Group, PNM Resources, CenterPoint, Dynegy, TXU Energy, Progress Energy, Constellation Energy, BG&E, others
§ Commodity linked structured contract monetizations for Calpine, El Paso Energy
§ Interest rate swap and currency hedging transactions for a wide variety of clients
§ Credit advisory assignments with multiple corporate clients EDUCATION
1996-1998 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Chicago, IL
MBA w/ Honors (concentration in Finance & Accounting) May 199*-****-**** LEHIGH UNIVERSITY Bethlehem, PA
Bachelor of Science in Finance May 1990
ADDITIONAL Series 7, 63 certified
Several completed marathons including Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York; sub three-hour marathoner