Keep Calm and Close Clean Energy Deals [Special Content]
Energy Gang
Wood Mackenzie
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Manish Hebbar architects billions of dollars worth of equity and debt deals in clean energy.
He’s able to stay methodical and calm in the middle of deals that are very stressful, involving multiple buyers and counter-parties.
“M&A transactions are those types of deals, where it's a fast-paced environment, every minute and every hour matters. It's really about who can stay the course and work through each round of progression.”
That skill goes back to his time as a Lieutenant in the Navy. It’s also influenced by his experience evaluating risk at Citibank during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.
Today, Manish is a managing director at CohnReznick Capital. He’s brokering some of clean energy’s biggest mergers and acquisitions -- like an 800-plus megawatt portfolio of wind projects in the U.S. and Canada in 2019.
In this special episode, produced in collaboration with CohnReznick Capital, we’ll hear how Manish used his experience in the military and financial risk to find his way into the fast-paced world of clean energy.
CohnReznick builds relationships, closes deals, and helps clean energy companies excel. Learn more about how people like Manish can help you work through some of the most complicated transactions in energy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an original branded podcast from GTM creative strategies. |
| 0:07.0 | Like a lot of people who become engineers, Manish Hebar honed his craft early in life. |
| 0:15.0 | As a young kid, I was always interested in how things worked. |
| 0:20.0 | Things would break and my toys or things that really were. things would |
| 0:25.0 | spend a lot of time trying to fix it. |
| 0:29.0 | Manish carried that knack through his teens. |
| 0:31.0 | And when it came time for college college he figured, |
| 0:33.0 | hey I'd like putting stuff together, |
| 0:35.0 | I like taking stuff apart, |
| 0:36.0 | maybe I'll become a mechanical engineer. |
| 0:38.0 | He got accepted to some dream schools, |
| 0:40.0 | including Duke, his alma mater. |
| 0:42.0 | But he quickly faced another universal experience. |
| 0:46.0 | Paying for private school tuition just wasn't possible without taking a mountain load of debt. |
| 0:51.7 | And that pushed Manish in a direction he didn't expect, the Navy. |
| 0:55.9 | The Navy is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of an Indian American. |
| 1:01.4 | I gravitated towards it. It was a way for me to pay for college, frankly. |
| 1:06.9 | The Navy helped Manish earn and pay for his degree in mechanical engineering. But over the years |
| 1:12.0 | serving in the military afterward, he actually didn't use those skills as much as |
| 1:16.0 | he thought he would. |
| 1:17.8 | Engineering was something that I was able to learn the fundamentals of in college, but the application as a naval officer |
| 1:26.9 | who was quite limited, the skills that you're really designed to do are to lead and |
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