Nick Rust
Director
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Life at FGS Global
Advises energy infrastructure clients on a variety of complex transaction and financial situations, including mergers and acquisitions, executive changes, sustainability reporting as well as ongoing investor relations programs. He also helps private funds clients with strategic media relations, crisis preparedness and response, and profile-raising matters.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Worked at Prosek Partners, supporting private capital investment firms and portfolio companies on positioning and executive thought leadership and specializing in helping private credit managers to proactively build and manage their brands.
Life Beyond FGS Global
When not in the office, Nick enjoys playing golf, traveling internationally with his family, and spending time with his two daughters.
Nick is a Director in the Houston office and works with a wide variety of publicly traded and late-stage private companies across highly regulated industries, including financial services, energy infrastructure, and healthcare. He also counsels private fund managers and portfolio companies on firm and fund launches, strategic and financial M&A transactions, reputation management, crisis preparedness and response and ongoing profile-raising matters.
Recent assignments include Benefit Street Partners on executive visibility and fund positioning in the private credit and commercial real estate debt space; Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings on its inaugural Investor Day as an independent public company; Energy Capital Partners on its pending transaction with Bridgepoint plc; Nature Energy Biogas A/S on its successful sale to a subsidiary of Shell plc for nearly USD$2 billion; Ortho Clinical Diagnostics on its transaction with Quidel Corporation; and Topspin Consumer Partners on positioning and media relations.
Previously, Nick worked at financial communications agency Prosek Partners in New York, where he primarily advised private capital investment firms and portfolio companies on media engagements and capital market priorities. He began his career working at an investor relations agency KCSA Strategic Communications.
Nick holds a BA in Corporate Communications from Elon University.
