Faisal Delawalla has been a lead advisor in more than 100 completed high-value M&A, corporate finance, and customer and vendor transactions. Faisal's experience includes traditional manufacturing, food and beverage, consulting, facility services, cryptocurrency, transportation, warehousing, logistics, commercial and industrial real estate, insurance, property management, and health and wellness products.
Faisal is also a trusted day-to-day advisor for clients advising on key projects such as restructurings and reorganizations, equity plans and incentives, governance, transaction-related disputes, form contracts, and executive employee agreements.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Faisal completed successful deals as lead advisor in numerous transactions, including a publicly traded food company in several strategic acquisitions and investments totaling approximately $2 billion, and in dozens of significant customer, supply, and transition services agreements; a family-owned food manufacturing company in a $500 million sale to private equity; a founder-led SaaS (software as a service) company in a $400 million sale to a publicly traded company; a publicly traded consulting company in several strategic acquisitions totaling approximately $250 million; a real estate redeveloper in a $225 million acquisition of a former oil refinery; a founder-led SaaS company in a $225 million sale to a publicly traded company; and a facility services company in a $175 million sale to private equity.
He also represented a cryptocurrency company in a multimillion dollar strategic acquisition; a family-owned dyes and colorants company and a family-owned power manufacturing company in multimillion dollar sales to international strategic buyers; and a founder-led medical device manufacturer in a multimillion dollar licensing and distribution transaction with a global health care company.
Experiencia
- Vanderbilt University (J.D. 2010; Senior Managing Editor, The Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law); The George Washington University (B.A. magna cum laude 2006)
- Illinois, Georgia, and Tennessee
Recognized in The Legal 500: "Vica Irani and Faisal Delawalla are my go-to M&A lawyers and their responsiveness at all hours of the day, deep understanding of our business and risk tolerances combined with their sound advice/guidance and business practicability makes them stand out among their competitors."
Recognized as an Acritas "Star Lawyer" multiple years