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
Helping define the emerging discipline of strategic communications for private capital, partnering with investment firms to elevate executive positioning and brand in support of key business objectives—including attracting capital, top talent, strategic partnerships, and deal opportunities.
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 Rust is a Director in FGS Global's Houston office and a media advisor to publicly traded and late-stage private companies. He also advises private capital managers and their portfolio companies on firm and fund launches, fundraising milestones, M&A transactions, leadership transitions, and crisis preparedness and response.
Recent assignments include Benefit Street Partners on the close of its second flagship U.S. real estate debt strategy and first private credit continuation vehicle; Franklin Templeton on launching its wealth channel infrastructure strategic partnership with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, DigitalBridge, and Actis; Elementl Power on its strategic partnership with Google to develop locations for advanced nuclear projects; Pretium on the close of its inaugural homebuilder finance fund; Energy Capital Partners on the $33 billion sale of Calpine to Constellation, the close of its fifth flagship value-added North American power and infrastructure fund, and its sale to Bridgepoint; Hess on its $53 billion sale to Chevron; and Pioneer Natural Resources on its $68 billion sale to ExxonMobil and a regulatory matter involving Scott Sheffield; and Topspin Consumer Partners on positioning and media relations.
Prior to FGS Global, Nick worked at Prosek Partners in New York and began his career at KCSA Strategic Communications. He holds a B.A. in Corporate Communications from Elon University.