Bill Fasel

Bio

Bill Fasel has over 25 years of experience in financial and strategic advisory services, assisting multinational and middle-market clients with turnaround, restructuring, business transformation, investment banking, and strategic advisory matters. His areas of expertise include improving operational and financial performance, identifying strategic alternatives, assessing and enhancing short-term liquidity, and creating and analyzing turnaround plans. Bill serves companies, debtors, lenders, unsecured creditors, private equity, and hedge funds in distressed situations.

Bill provides a wide range of C-Suite solutions, including M&A transactions, business transformation, performance improvement, and interim management support to assist clients in optimizing performance, accelerating growth, managing costs, and stabilizing the business to drive value creation. He has broad experience in M&A advisory services, including executing numerous buy- and sell-side acquisitions, divestitures, and capital market transactions. His experience includes advising clients through distressed M&A and S363 sale processes, recapitalizations, and developing strategic alternatives to enhance profitability and liquidity.

As Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Advisory practice at J.S. Held, Bill provides financial and operational expertise to help clients, owners, and lenders address business challenges and drive value creation. He brings practical solutions and a depth and breadth of experience to address complex situations, ranging from financial transformation and operational improvement issues to M&A advisory, turnaround, and restructuring matters.

Life Before Phoenix

Prior to joining J. S. Held, Bill, held leadership roles with several professional services firms, including serving within Stout’s Transaction Advisory Group, Grant Thornton’s Corporate Finance group, PwC’s Business Restructuring Services practice, Deloitte’s Corporate Restructuring Group, and Huron Consulting Group’s Corporate Advisory practice. Bill has also held corporate development and strategic planning roles with Campbell Soup Company and Aon Corporation and was an investment banker in the M&A practice of Lehman Brothers.

Education & Affiliations

Bill received a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Michigan.