Javier Faus is a Private Equity professional who leads the fund management firm Meridia Capital Partners.
Education
He has a Law Degree by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, a Masters in International Law from Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Escuela Superior de Administraciónew york Dirección de Empresas Business School (Barcelona).
Career
Since 2010 he is also economic and strategic vice president at Football Club barcelona and vice president at Real Club de Tenis Barcelona. Prior to his investment career, Faus worked as an M&A lawyer in New York and Barcelona for 11 years. In 2001, he led a consortium in order to acquire Hovisa, the real estate company that owned Hotel Arts in Barcelona (Ritz-Carlton), amongst other assets.
He subsequently became president and minority shareholder for the company.
Later, in 2006 he managed the sale of Hovisa to a consortium formed by Host Hotels & Resorts and GIC (Singapore Government). This deal had, at the time, the highest price ever paid for a single real estate asset in Spain (417 million euros).
Between 2003 and 2007, Faus was managing Partner for Spain and Portugal at Patron Capital Partners, a London-based real estate fund manager linked to universities in United States of America. In 2006 he founded Meridia Capital Partners, a private equity fund management firm specialized in luxury hotels. Its first fund, "Meridia Hospitality I", invested in premium urban hotel real estate globally, including the West Paris Opera Hotel, the Four Seasons Hotel in Mexico City, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Santiago de Chile and the InterContinental Hotel in São Paulo Paulo, among others
In 2014 Meridia Capital launched "Meridia Iberian Real Estate Fund" (MIREF) and "Meridia Impact Fund" (Matsumae International Foundation).
MIREF invests in the Spanish real estate sector while Matsumae International Foundation focuses on companies with a social impact. He collaborates with Arthur Segel at Harvard Business School"s real estate department helping to write case studies, such as the one on Hotel Arts. and the West Paris Opera Hotel.
Membership
Between 2011 and 2013 Mr Faus was treasurer of the "Cercle d’Economia", and between 2010 and 2014 he was a member of the board of directors at Inmobiliaria Colonial.