Nick Rust
Director
Life at FGS Global
Advises public companies and financial sponsors on complex transactions and crisis management, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, leadership transitions, and capital markets days. He also helps private funds clients with strategic media relations and crisis preparedness and response.
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 profile raising and fund positioning in the private credit and commercial real estate debt space; Franklin Templeton on announcing its infrastructure strategic partnership with Copenhagen, DigitalBridge, and Actis; Pretium on the close of its inaugural homebuilder finance fund; Energy Capital Partners on its transaction with Bridgepoint plc and its sale of Calpine to Constellation; Ortho Clinical Diagnostics on its transaction with Quidel Corporation; Pioneer on its $70 billion sale to ExxonMobil; Nature Energy Biogas A/S on its successful sale to a subsidiary of Shell plc for nearly USD$2 billion; and Topspin Consumer Partners on positioning and media relations.
Previously, Nick worked at the independent agency Prosek Partners in New York, where he primarily advised private capital investment firms and portfolio companies on media positioning and thought leadership engagements in support of capital formation priorities. He began his career working at an investor relations agency KCSA Strategic Communications.
Nick holds a BA in Corporate Communications from Elon University.