Bio

Fuad Sawaya brings more than 25 years of experience advising some of the most respected consumer companies on Mergers & Acquisitions and Strategic Financial Advisory assignments. Prior to co-founding Sawaya Segalas & Co., LLC, Fuad’s career began at PaineWebber, Inc. as a Summer Associate in 1985 in the Mergers & Acquisitions department where he worked as a generalist on many of the group’s most important assignments including the acquisition of National Car Rental and the sale of FoxMeyer Drug to McKesson, Inc. Upon the arrival of Hercules Segalas in the late 1980’s and the subsequent founding of the Consumer Products Investment Banking Group, Fuad decided to focus exclusively on serving the needs of this industry group and became the M&A Liaison for the Consumer Products Group where he spearheaded many of its most prominent transactions including the sale of Snapple Beverages to Quaker Oats, the recapitalization of Randall’s Supermarket with KKR and the sale of Armor All Products to The Clorox Corporation. He was a member of PaineWebber’s Investment Banking Management Committee, its Fairness Opinion Committee and Promotion Committee. In the late 1990s, Fuad was asked to run the Consumer Products Group. When he and Herc Segalas led PaineWebber’s Consumer Products M&A business in the 1980’s and 1990’s, their focus was primarily on strategic transactions and M&A advisory assignments. Fuad provided strategy, oversight, and a talent for bringing companies and individuals together. Veteran analyst Herc Segalas led the networking and research aspect of the transactions, and together they built a powerhouse M&A team. With Herc, the team completed more than 120 M&A and financing transactions aggregating more than $14 billion in value. Led by Sawaya and Segalas, the team closed some of the most talked-about transactions in the industry. As PaineWebber’s Consumer M&A business expanded and the team’s expertise deepened, Fuad began centering the business platform around household products, personal care, food & beverage and houseware segments. He developed working relationships with global and domestic consumer companies at the Chairman, CEO and CFO levels, and he positioned his group as a strategic resource for the Private Equity/LBO Sponsor community