Mr. Faisal joined Dahaa Capital as Head of Investment Banking in July 2014.

Mr. Faisal has over 25 years of investment banking and advisory experience. Prior to joining Dahaa Capital, he re-established the investment banking department of Rajhi Capital. Before this, Mr. Faisal spent almost 11 years with Saudi Fransi Capital as Co-Head Investment Banking where he lead all of the bank’s complex M&A transactions, most of its premium IPOs and certain pioneering Sukuk transactions.

The bulk of Mr. Faisal’s career prior to Saudi Arabia was with UBS (and its predecessors) in investment banking, based in London. Mr. Faisal spent some time with Monitor’s corporate finance advisory business (MAST), engaged on M&A and JV transactions; and Datamonitor, where he also authored a series of reports for the Financial Times.

Mr. Faisal’s Saudi transaction experience includes pioneering transactions such as Saudi Airlines Catering IPO, Abulmohsen Al Hokair IPO, Bawan Company IPO, advising Almarai on its acquisition of Teeba, advising HADCO on the offer from Almarai, advising National Handling Services on the merger with Saudia Ground Handling, and Attar and Almarai’s hybrid Sukuk. Mr. Faisal worked on a wide variety of transactions across multiple sectors.

Mr. Faisal holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from London School of Economics; and an MBA from London School of Economics, London Business School.