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Nishen Radia is a co-founder of FocalPoint Partners, and has approximately 8 years of experience advising middle-market and multinational corporations on merger and acquisition strategies and execution, debt and equity capital raising and valuation/fairness opinions. Mr. Radia has worked at Merrill Lynch in London, Hong Kong and New York, and prior to that, SocGen Investment Banking in London.
Mr. Radia joined Merrill Lynch in London in 1998, where his principal geographic focus was the UK and Europe. At Merrill Lynch, Mr. Radia completed a number of high profile mergers and acquisitions with aggregate consideration of over $15 billion and worked with many of the leading companies in Europe and the US, including British Telecom plc, Marconi Group plc, Invensys plc, Hilton Group plc, Virgin Group, Tyco Inc, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Texas Pacific Group and British Aerospace plc on projects ranging from debt and equity issuance to domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Radia transferred to Hong Kong in July 2001 where he played a leading role in developing the South East Asian M&A advisory business, advising companies such as the Hysan Development Co., Hutchison Whampoa and its telecom/media subsidiaries, Johnson Controls, Dao Heng Bank and the Government of Singapore.
Since co-founding FocalPoint, Mr. Radia has closed numerous transactions in the US middle-market, where he has applied the technical expertise and know-how gained working with larger firms to his more entrepreneurial client base. Recent transactions he has completed include the sale of Physicians Formula cosmetics to Summit Partners, the sale of ImageOne's print assets to Greatland Corporation, and the sale of Delta, a clinical trials and IT consulting business, to Vedior North America. Mr. Radia's relationships include many leading domestic and multinational corporations, private equity groups and numerous capital providers ranging from banks to hedge funds.
Mr. Radia graduated in Economics with Honors from the University of Bristol, England and received his MBA with Distinction from Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times and is a Board Member of the Valley Economic Development Council.
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