Private Equity

Jiva J. Jagtap serves as Global Leader of Private Equity and Co-leads our Telecommunication Sector. Mr. Jagtap has over 25 years of experience and specializes in advising numerous large and small companies on complex assignments including carve-outs, performance improvement, merger integration and business strategy.

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Lars Faeste serves as Chairman of FTI Consulting’s EMEA region, where he focuses on helping clients transform and achieve success through crisis and large corporate events. Mr. Faeste specializes in company transformations, special situations and crises, having supported many successful transformations often generating two-to-three times their valuation over 18-36 months.

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Carlyn Taylor, Global Co-Leader of the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment and FTI Consulting Chief Growth Officer, has over 30 years of experience helping clients with strategy, business transformation and transaction-related services. As Chief Growth Officer she is responsible for the firm’s growth initiatives, including Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Private Equity.

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Roy Huang is the Head of Asia & Caribbean and is a Senior Managing Director, based in Hong Kong. Mr. Huang brings substantial expertise in private equity, working closely with both global and local funds, business transformation and M&A. He has worked on some of the most significant mergers and acquisitions in the region and was responsible for billion-dollar deals. His notable sectors of focus include technology, consumer goods and financial services.

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Francesco Bardoni is a Senior Managing Director within FTI Consulting’s Transaction Services. Francesco has extensive experience in the M&A sector, having advised high-profile private equity houses and corporates on large, complex transactions across multiple sectors and jurisdictions, both on the buy- and vendor-side, including carve-outs, platform deals, bolt-ons, public-to-private and independent business reviews (“IBRs”) .

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Scott Bingham is a Senior Managing Director, and Leader of the U.S. Transactions practice, and Co-Leads the Global Transactions practice, which encompasses both pre-deal and post-deal services. Mr. Bingham has more than 20 years of experience providing clients with acquisition advice on engagements, ranging from $30 billion leveraged buyouts and multibillion-dollar ‘white knight’ defenses of hostile takeover targets to middle market private equity placements and strategic ‘add-on’ acquisitions.

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Roxana Fariborz has more than 25 years of experience advising investors in the long-only, hedge fund and private capital markets. Ms. Fariborz specializes in directing the research, business evaluation, strategic marketing and client relations efforts for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

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Matthew Johnston leads the EMEA turnaround offering within FTI Consulting. With more than 25 years of experience, he has worked across private equity groups, portfolio companies and publicly listed companies advising on strategic and financial matters including cost optimization, cash and working capital management, business planning, transformations and formal insolvencies.

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Rustom Kharegat serves as Co-leader of Global Transactions. Mr. Kharegat brings significant experience in the private equity market having led some of the most complex and largest due diligence investigations for several financial buyers in a number of industries including public-to-private transactions and IBRs.

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Brian Kushner co-leads FTI Consulting’s Activism, Aerospace & Defense (“A&D”) and the Technology industry practices. Dr. Kushner has more than 40 years of board and C-level experience that include serving as director, CEO or chief restructuring officer (“CRO”) of more than 35 public and private companies.

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Kevin McCadden has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry and has collaborated with healthcare facilities throughout the United States. Mr. McCadden’s experience includes academic medical centers, hospitals and health systems, payers, private equity, life science companies and research institutions, along with involvement in several international projects.

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Todd Rahn, co-leader of our SEC & Accounting Advisory practice, brings more than 27 years of experience advising boards and executive teams on audit readiness, technical accounting, staff augmentation, AI, private placements and IPOs, SEC requirements and ESG disclosure, as well as restatements, litigation and disputes. Mr. Rahn is an active member of FTI Consulting’s ESG & Sustainability Leadership Committee, consulting on the social and environmental issues driving today’s investment decisions.

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Todd Smith is Co-Leader of the Merger Integration & Carve-outs practice and specializes in integration management office leadership, organizational design, employee engagement, synergies achievement, sales force integration, enterprise portfolio management, customer relationship management and all aspects of back-office integration, including finance/accounting, real estate and IT systems.

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Sergio Vélez is the head of the Mediterranean region and the Corporate Finance segment in Spain. He also leads the Private Credit investors offering in EMEA in interim Management. Mr. Vélez advises investors and lenders in all aspects of the investment process including pre-transaction, structuring, post-acquisition, portfolio governance and special situations.

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Angus Wilson leads the Europe, Middle East and Asia (“EMEA”) Infrastructure Tax Advisory Practice at FTI Consulting. Mr. Wilson has more than 27 years of experience providing M&A, transactions and international tax advice to clients with assets in the Asia-Pacific, Australia and Europe regions. His proven track record includes advising infrastructure investors, multinational corporations, private equity funds and governments on investments, structuring and modelling for projects across a range of sectors.

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Miriam Wrobel leads FTI Consulting’s global, Environmental, Social and Governance ("ESG") practice, representing more than 250 professionals across. Ms. Wrobel advises public and private companies including Private Equity on ESG evaluation, strategy, and implementation efforts, leveraging her 20 years of transactional and strategic experience.

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