Артем Князев

Investment analyst with an expertise in Leveraged Finance field.

My skills at financial modelling, equity valuation, credit analysis, deal structuring and market research have been applied in deals mainly in Oil, Gas, Energy and Chemicals industries.

VTB Bank (May 2019 - October 2022) - Moscow

Senior Investment Analyst, CLFI (Credit, Leveraged Finance & Investments)

• Conducting credit analysis, equity valuation, market research, deal structuring

Was involved in following deals:

• M&A financing in Chemicals industry (1 bln USD deal, closed) - conducted equity valuation and market research, prepared invest memo
• Shares buyback financing in Oil&Gas industry (330 mln USD deal, closed) - conducted equity valuation, scenario analysis, estimated rationale of oil prices hedging
• Working capital financing in Chemicals industry (100 mln USD deal, closed) - conducted credit analysis and market research, submitted terms of credit financing

KPMG (December 2017 - April 2019) - Moscow

Executive 2, Deal Advisory

• Conducting market analysis
• Participation in business valuation projects (DCF modelling, Market approach)
• Performing Due Diligence - analysis of financial indicators (EBITDA, Net Debt, NWC), application of normalization adjustments
• Participation in M&A projects - preparation of teasers, proposals, looking for potential targets
• Maintaining and updating the existing financial models

Investment Bureau FINIST (July 2017 - October 2017)

Project finance intern

• Looking for information on state tenders
• Conducting commercial due diligence for business commitment
• Assisting in building a financial model for infrastructure project in one of Russia’ regions
• Reconciliation of client’s model and own model

Unilever (Februrary 2017 - April 2017)

Finance department intern

• Conducting a profit margin analysis of product portfolio
• Modelling of effect which could be caused by amendment to Trade Law (accepted in the end of 2016) on Unilever’s profitability

2019

National Research University 'Higher School of Economics', Moscow

Strategic Corporate Finance - Master degree, Finance

2017

National Research University 'Higher School of Economics', Moscow

Economics - Bachelor degree, Economics