Imran has over 7 years’ experience in Corporate and Investment Banking and since then has been involved in multiple deals worth ~ US$ 1.5bn consisting of M&As, Structuring, IPOs, SPOs, Private Placement and Private Equity. Selected recent transactions includes Acquisition & Sale of Asia Resources Oil Limited (AROL), Acquisition of Dawlance by Arçeli̇k A.Ş, Acquisition of Chevron Pakistan, Offer for Sale of Saif Power Limited, SPO of Government of Pakistan’s holding in Pakistan Petroleum Limited (Privatisation Transaction), Divestment and Offer for Sale of shares of EngroQadirpurPowergen Limited, IPO of Avanceon Limited and IPO & Divestment of Engro Fertilizer. Furthermore, he was involved with and played a crucial role in the USD 1bn Divestment of Habib Bank shares by the Government of Pakistan, the Largest ever equity offering in Asian Frontier Markets.

Prior to joining AFS, he was associated with the Habib Bank Limited (HBL), where he was a senior member of the Investment Banking Division and Meezan Bank, where he has managed blue chips relationships including Unilever Pakistan Limited, Yunus Brothers Group, ICI Pakistan Limited, Linde Pakistan Limited amongst others and was involved in multiple restructurings. During this tenor in HBL, he was transaction lead on deals which led the team to win Best M&A House & Best Equity House by “The Asset , Triple A Country Awards 2015” and Lead Manager & Financial Advisor of the year 2013 and 2014 by “South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE)”.

He holds a Masters in Business Analytics and Consulting from Warwick Business School, a diploma in Investment Banking from NYU, a bachelors in Economics from Royal Holloway and is currently a CFA level II candidate and in process of achieving a certification as an International M&A Expert.

Faisal Bilwani has extensive experience of near 12 years of broking in Pakistani equities to foreign Broker-Dealers and Asset Managers. He has expertise in marketing to US, European and Far East investors and has conducted many corporate access events. Prior to joining Alfalah, Faisal led FII Desk at Elixir Securities where his team was awarded 1) Best Brokerage House – Pakistan (2016) by The Asset 2) Best Domestic Equity House 2015 by Asia Money. He was also actively involved in three banking Privatization transactions worth over USD1.5bn.

Furqan Punjani has over 10 years of experience in brokerage and equity research. His primary focus has been managing equity sales and research function for large family houses, local institutions and HNW clients. Prior to joining Alfalah CLSA, Furqan was Vice President and Head of Local Institutions at BMA Capital since April 2014. Furqan served as Deputy Head of Research at BMA for 4 years, before joining BMA Sales department. His responsibilities entailed managing the research team along with formulating market strategy and covering sectors like Oil & Gas, Commercial Banks and Electricity. He has also provided coverage on other sectors such as Construction, Textiles, Chemicals and Fertilizers in his capacity as a Research Analyst at Topline Securities (Private) Limited, prior to BMA. Furqan started off his career as a Corporate Finance Analyst at Atlas Capital (now known as Summit Capital).

Prior to joining Alfalah CLSA Fahad was the Deputy Head of Research at Foundation Securities (Pvt) Limited (Pakistan partner of Macquarie group) co-heading a team of seven individuals (5 analysts and 2 in database) with coverage of ~45 stocks encompassing almost all the key sectors and relevant stocks (80% of benchmark KSE-100 index). Apart from supervising, Fahad was also responsible for Market Strategy, Politics and Economic analysis of Pakistan. In his previous assignments he was involved in portfolio analysis and risk management. Fahad has covered a wide array of sectors, including Banks, Insurance, E&Ps, Power and Textiles. He completed his MBA from IoBM Karachi in 2013, and is a CFA charter holder. He has also mentored university student teams for annual CFA Research Challenge 2016-17.