Markets Decoded is a Capital Markets and Private Equity Value-Creation Platform for portfolio companies and the sponsors behind them — fewer surprises at the board, better options at the refinancing, and desk-grade analysis, on demand, in every operator’s hands.
Every capital decision looks different depending on where you sit — and in private equity, the sponsor, the lender, and the management team are rarely sitting in the same seat. Our advice accounts for what the other side of your table is optimizing for.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch desks in New York and Toronto: debt capital markets and cross-asset solutions, with rotations through special situations distressed debt, equity-linked derivatives, and structured credit.
Derivatives specialist in Deloitte’s Global Energy Markets practice, Houston and Washington DC — grounded in a Virginia CPA license.
Inside eBay North America’s CFO office: financial planning & analytics and the Special Pricing Group, where markets logic meets a Fortune 500 P&L.
Advisor to the boards, CEOs, and CFOs of sponsor-backed companies through financial transformations — translating between sponsors, lenders, and management teams.
Extensive enterprise system implementation and agentic AI deployment — the capability that turns judgment into working software: the analytical products on this site, and AI running inside portfolio finance functions rather than a slide deck about it.
High-touch engagements for portfolio companies, sponsors, and boards — by people who know the covenant call, the board-deck weekend, and the 100-day plan from the inside. In person, at the table, accountable to a baseline agreed on day one.
A desk-level read of the debt stack, covenants, and refinancing windows — before the lenders take theirs.
Preparing management teams and financials for a sale, raise, or refinancing — the diligence questions answered before the other side asks them, for a cleaner process and a stronger exit.
Rebuilding the portfolio-company finance function — FP&A discipline, KPI frameworks, EBITDA enhancement — so the numbers hold up in the boardroom, the data room, and the exit story.
Rates, FX, energy, and equity-linked exposure — structured, priced, and challenged by someone who has sat on the structuring side.
When the capital structure is the problem: liability management, creditor dynamics, and the options nobody volunteers to explain.
AI agents inside the finance function — close automation, reporting copilots, treasury and FP&A workflows — implemented by an advisor who has shipped these systems, without ripping out the platforms you already run on.
Fixed scope, fully virtual, delivered in 10–15 business days.
90–180 days inside a portfolio company. Quick wins first; results measured against the day-one baseline.
Bespoke and in person, across a transaction, transformation, or special situation.
We work at portfolio scale: standardized readiness assessments across holdings, value-creation programs with a shared baseline, platform seats for every portfolio company, and agentic finance infrastructure deployed sponsor-wide.
“Advised by someone who has structured these instruments, audited them, and lived with them inside a CFO office.”
Request a confidential intro callWe are retained by the company or by the sponsor — the mandate defines which, and it never blurs.
Anonymized by design — the work is confidential; the pattern is the proof.
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Taught by someone who did. Capital markets fluency for portfolio-company finance teams, corporate development and treasury groups, and rising finance professionals.
Debt capital markets, structured credit, derivatives, and distressed situations — taught the way desks teach them.
Capital-structure models, hedging frameworks, and board-ready transaction checklists you can use the same week.
Sharp translations of the instruments and terms that move real money.
For individuals building fluency.
For operators in the work.
For finance teams — and sponsors, portfolio-wide.
Managing Director
Adnan built Markets Decoded on a simple observation: capital decisions fail in the gap between the people who structure them and the people who live with them — and closing that gap takes someone who has sat on every side of it.
His career runs through each of those seats: the trading desks of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deloitte’s Global Energy Markets practice, eBay’s CFO office, and the boardrooms of sponsor-backed companies — with enterprise systems and agentic AI built hands-on along the way.
A confidential 30-minute introduction — no materials required, answered personally.