Mr. Manket is a Vice President in Houlihan Lokey’s Oil & Gas Group. He is primarily focused on energy transactions across corporate finance and private credit. Mr. Manket is based in the firm’s Dubai office.
Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Manket worked as an investment analyst in the Infrastructure and Natural Resources department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group in the United Arab Emirates. He had a primary focus on the financing of regional renewable energy projects.
Mr. Manket also spent nearly four years at the Emirates National Oil Company’s (ENOC) Mergers & Acquisitions team, advising on inorganic growth strategy, disposals, and strategic investments. Prior to that, he was an M&A Analyst at Ernst & Young.
Mr. Manket holds a master’s degree in Finance and Tax Management from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.