Bio

Mr. Faust joined Excel Partners in 2009 as a partner and Managing Director to head the Firm’s West Coast office. He has over twenty years of experience as an investment banker and corporate lawyer. Mr. Faust has worked on a wide variety of domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions, in particular, in the healthcare, consumer goods, business services and technology industries. Prior to joining Excel Partners, Mr. Faust was a senior banker at Barrington Associates (now a part of Wells Fargo Securities) in Los Angeles. He is also the founder of Cross-Border Transaction Management GmbH (CBTM), a German advisory firm specializing in facilitating M&A transactions between U.S. and European middle-market companies. Mr. Faust previously worked as a Vice President in the M&A Group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, where he advised large cap companies in a broad range of industries. Before becoming an investment banker, Mr. Faust was an M&A and capital markets lawyer at White & Case LLP in New York and at Freshfields in London and Frankfurt am Main. Mr. Faust received a law degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from New York University School of Law. He is fluent in German and English.