Muhammad Faisal Laghari

Written By Anthony Paul

“Perspectives on Lower-48 A&D” Moderator

Muhammad Laghari is a Senior Managing Director in Guggenheim’s Energy Investment Banking group and helps lead the firm’s energy and energy transition investment banking business.

Mr. Laghari has over 14 years of investment banking experience and primarily focuses on strategic advisory assignments and financing for companies in the energy industry.

Prior to Guggenheim, Mr. Laghari worked at Citigroup where he led the firm’s North American Upstream Investment Banking business, representing one of its largest investment banking teams within the Global Energy Group. Prior to Citigroup, Mr. Laghari worked for Barclays Capital as a Vice President, Investment Banking in its Global Natural Resources group.

Mr. Laghari’s experience includes a broad range of strategic advisory and capital markets engagements. He has led several transactions totaling over $140 billion in value and spanning North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Mr. Laghari earned an M.A. in Financial Risk Management from the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University and graduated with Honors from Lahore University of Management Sciences with a B.Sc. in Economics and a minor in Mathematics.

He and his wife Nadia, reside in Houston with their daughters Lyla and Leah.

Notable Transactions

Strategic Advisory

  • Occidental’s $58 billion acquisition of Anadarko

  • WPX’s $12 billion merger-of-equals with Devon

  • IKAV’s acquisition of Aera from Shell and Exxon

  • Continental’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Pioneer’s Delaware assets

  • DoublePoint Energy’s $6.4billion sale to Pioneer

  • Encana’s $7.7 billion acquisition of Newfield

  • BHP Billiton’s sale of its onshore US Assets to BP for $10.5 billion

  • Roan’s $1.0 billion sale to Citizen

  • Devon’s sale of its Citizen’s joint venture with Linn to form Roan

  • Ovintiv’s sale of its Eagle Ford assets for $880 million

  • Daylight’s C$3.1 billion sale to Sinopec

  • Riverstone / Silver Run’s $1.6 billion purchase of Centennial

  • Vanguard on its $539 million merger with LRR Energy

Activism Defense

  • Occidental’s defense against Icahn (2019)

  • BHP’s defense against Elliott (2017)

Capital Markets Advisory

  • TPG Pace Energy’s $650 million SPAC IPO

  • Silver Run’s $500 million SPAC IPO

  • Oryx Petroleum’s C$250 million IPO

  • Blackstone Minerals’ $539 million IPO

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