David Isaacs
Partner
Life at FGS Global
Provides strategic communications counsel on high-stakes matters including M&A transactions, shareholder activist campaigns, IPOs, and crises such as data breaches and ransomware incidents, and advises on corporate positioning and IR programs.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Wrote a weekly column for Sports Illustrated on Campus and worked in Baseball Operations at the Golden Baseball League, formerly an eight-team independent baseball league.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Exploring Northern California with his wife and two young daughters.
David is a Partner in the San Francisco office and provides strategic communications counsel on high-stakes matters.
He has extensive experience across a wide range of M&A assignments - including cross-border transactions, RMTs, and take-privates - across several industries. Representative transactions include LiveVox's acquisition by NICE, II-VI's acquisition of Coherent, Intel's acquisitions of Mobileye and Altera, and Gardner Denver's combination with Ingersoll Rand's Industrial segment. David has also advised a number of private equity and growth equity firms on investment announcements and portfolio company exits.
Other notable special situations David has advised on include cybersecurity issues such as data breaches, ransomware incidents, and security vulnerability disclosures, as well as shareholder activism campaigns, chapter 11 bankruptcy filings, litigation matters, and multiple product recalls.
During his career, David has also provided strategic investor relations counsel and support to a number of companies across the technology, media, and retail industries. David has also developed and executed a number of corporate positioning campaigns.
David graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in business management economics.
