Nishen Radia
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
FocalPoint Partners, LLC
Specialty or Industry Focus: Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Advisory, Valuations
Nishen Radia is managing partner and co-founding principal of FocalPoint Partners, a leading investment bank headquartered in Los Angeles, with branch offices in Chicago, New York, and Shanghai. Radia heads the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice. Since its inception in 2002, FocalPoint has grown to become one of the larger middle-market investment banks in the country, with approximately 50 professionals who deliver a diversified suite of advisory services to clients, including mergers and acquisitions, debt placements, and financial restructurings.
Radia has over 23 years of experience advising middle market companies and private equity groups on M&A transactions. From a sector perspective, Radia has a focus on business services, consumer (beauty and apparel) and healthcare. Recent transactions he has worked on include the sale of Audax portfolio company, Coolsys to Ares Capital, the investment by Lion Capital into Hatch Beauty, and the sale of SMP Pharmacy to Galen Investors.