| Steve Traicoff has over 25 years of energy-related experience focusing primarily in the areas of energy trading, risk management, and structured finance. Mr. Traicoff has traded several energy commodities including refined products, petrochemicals, residual fuel, and feedstocks. He has also originated, structured, and closed large, complex physical and financial transactions in the natural gas and power industry sectors. His background also includes project financing, investment banking, and structured finance in the energy sector as well as such energy-intensive industries as refining, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, steel and primary metals.
His experience includes:
- Steve has over 14 years of direct commercial and trading experience regarding refined products, natural gas, petrochemicals, feedstocks, and electric power. Separate from his Refined Products trading experience, he has originated, structured, negotiated, and closed multi-year financial derivative and commodity (natural gas, oil, and power) transactions totaling over $300 MM in revenue and resulting in over $15 MM in pre-tax income.
- He has originated, structured, negotiated, and/or closed over $125 MM of equity and debt financing in new and existing enterprises. He has also sourced debt and equity funding totaling over $50 MM for energy-intensive (chemical, refining, pulp and paper, steel) or energy-related projects and businesses. As a senior originator at a pre-eminent energy trading company, he led a cross-functional team that included credit, trading, legal, tax, accounting, and syndication functions, resulting in four deal closures. He also structured innovative financial support and guarantees, including insurance products.
- Steve has been engaged as litigation support consultant and/or expert witness in eight (8) separate cases regarding commodity and energy trading, risk management, and structured finance for several cases of federal and state court litigation, with potential judgments totaling over $1 Billion.
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