Hari Chandra

Hari Chandra is a Vice President in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory Group and is based in London.

Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Chandra has focused on the energy and natural resources sector. He has been involved in the sale of Aquila, Inc. in a multi-part transaction to Great Plains Energy and Black Hills Corporation; the capital raising effort for Blue Source, LLC; the strategic and financial repositioning of Aquila, Inc. , including Aquila's sale of several gas and power utilities to Integrys Energy Group, Empire District, and Mid-Kansas Electric Co. ; the acquisition of Lafarge North America by Lafarge S. A. ; the sale of British Energy's stake in AmerGen Energy Company LLC to Exelon Corporation and the restructurings of AES Corporation, Allegheny Energy, NRG Energy and Reliant Resources.

Before joining Blackstone in 2004, Mr. Chandra worked in the energy and power private equity effort at Fortress Investment Group and in the banking group at Lazard Frères, where he advised on a number of mergers and acquisitions and restructuring advisory transactions for energy and power companies.

Prior to working in investment banking, Mr. Chandra worked at Constellation Power Source, where he was responsible for origination of structured transactions involving energy and environmental commodities.

Mr. Chandra received a BS in Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University.