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About Moorgate Metals

International reach. Industrial expertise. Financial-market discipline.

Built around controlled physical trade.

Moorgate Metals is a UK-based international commodities business connecting qualified supply with industrial buyers across global markets.

Our approach combines international sourcing and commercial relationships with hands-on metals manufacturing expertise and institutional financial-markets experience. The team brings together senior backgrounds spanning copper processing and recycling, plant operations, industrial leadership, physical commodity transactions, electronic markets, quantitative finance and risk management.

This multidisciplinary capability allows us to look beyond simply matching buyers and sellers. We seek to understand the material, its processing and end-use requirements, the commercial structure of the transaction, and the associated price, counterparty, logistics and financial risks.

Leadership & industry expertise

Experienced people behind every transaction.

Senior professionals across India, the United Kingdom and Ireland spanning industrial leadership, copper manufacturing, global financial markets and quantitative risk.

Sumit Malhotra

Sumit Malhotra

Partner – India & Strategic Relationships

Sumit is a senior business leader with extensive executive experience across India's metals, building-materials and industrial sectors. His leadership career includes serving as CEO at Vedanta, CEO at EasyBuild, Joint President at Shree Cement, CMO at JK Lakshmi Cement, and Director – Sales & Marketing at Holcim/ACC.

At Moorgate Metals, Sumit leads key strategic relationships in India, supporting buyer engagement, commercial development and long-term industrial partnerships.

India

Mahadeo Shinde

Mahadeo Shinde

Senior Technical Advisor – Copper & Recycling

35+ years in copper processing, manufacturing & plant operations

Mahadeo is a core member of Moorgate Metals' technical capability, bringing more than 35 years of hands-on industrial experience across copper processing, recycling, casting, rod manufacturing, furnace operations, plant commissioning, process optimisation and industrial safety.

His career includes extensive experience with Vedanta/Sterlite Copper across copper cast-rod production, anode casting, continuous casting and major commissioning and improvement programmes. His work has included ETP and FRHC copper rod production, furnace operations, capacity enhancement, product quality, process optimisation and production troubleshooting.

At Moorgate Metals, Mahadeo provides specialist technical input into copper scrap and secondary raw-material evaluation, processing suitability, buyer specifications, recycling opportunities and downstream manufacturing requirements.

India

Amar Dhirdeo

Amar Dhirdeo

Advisor – Commodities, Markets & Risk

London financial markets · LBS

Amar is a London-based financial-markets professional with experience across leading global investment banks including Barclays and Credit Suisse. His background spans electronic trading, market and trading risk and financial markets.

Amar holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School (LBS) and supports Moorgate in transaction structuring, commodity and FX risk considerations, international commercial development and institutional relationships.

London, United Kingdom

Gopinath Ramkumar

Gopinath Ramkumar

Advisor – Quantitative Markets & Risk

Quantitative finance · Derivatives · Risk

Gopinath is a Dublin-based financial engineer and quantitative markets professional with extensive experience across institutional financial markets. His expertise spans quantitative modelling, derivatives, trading, market and treasury risk, and commodity-linked risk analysis.

With advanced academic training in Quantitative Finance / Financial Engineering and doctoral-level research, Gopinath combines rigorous quantitative methods with practical financial-markets experience. His work includes quantitative analysis relating to commodity swaps, counterparty credit risk and copper-linked financial derivatives.

Dublin, Ireland

Rishi Khedkar

Rishi Khedkar

Sales Director – International Business

Global business development & commercial relationships

Rishi leads international sales and business development for Moorgate Metals, supporting supplier and buyer relationships across global markets. He brings nearly three decades of entrepreneurial and commercial experience across the UK and Europe.

United Kingdom

Technical & metallurgical insight

Understanding the material beyond the trade.

Physical metals transactions ultimately depend on how material performs in the buyer's process.

Moorgate's technical capability includes practical experience across copper scrap melting, anode casting, ETP and FRHC copper rod production, continuous casting, furnace operations, process optimisation and plant commissioning.

This experience supports discussions on scrap preparation and processing suitability; contamination, recovery and quality considerations; furnace and remelting requirements; copper casting and rod-manufacturing requirements; and alignment of secondary raw materials with downstream applications.

Our objective is not simply to identify available material, but to understand whether that material is commercially and technically suitable for its intended industrial use.

Integrated capability

Commercial relationships. Technical expertise. Financial discipline.

Industrial expertise

Senior leadership and buyer relationships across the Indian metals and industrial ecosystem.

Copper technical expertise

35+ years across copper processing, casting, recycling, furnaces, continuous casting and plant operations.

Markets & risk

London and Dublin financial-markets expertise across trading, derivatives, commodity pricing and FX risk.

Controlled execution

We evaluate the metal and the transaction together.

Our operating framework considers material specification, processing suitability, recoverable value, benchmark and basis pricing, FX, payment structure, inspection, logistics and documentary evidence as connected parts of one physical trade.

Where a transaction requires financial hedging, Moorgate can support exposure analysis and commercial hedging structure design alongside client treasury teams and appropriately authorised financial counterparties. For commercial hedging enquiries, contact sales@moorgatemetals.com.

Corporate information

Transparent legal identity.

Legal trading entityMoorgate Metals Limited
JurisdictionEngland and Wales
Company number17355317
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