RAUL FABRE

Raul is a co-founder and President at PÔNT and a former PwC Partner. He specializes in M&A and has completed over 40 transactions.

His experience spans both sell-side and cross-border transactions, including:

• Buyer and Seller Outreach and Networking
• Preliminary Assessment
• Due Diligence
• Valuation and Negotiation
• Deal Structuring
• Final Due Diligence and Closing
• Post-Transaction Review and Merger Integration

Recent Experience

Automotive Company Restructuring: Led the restructuring of a large automotive company, increasing its value from $300M to over $600M, and attracting strategic investors. This initiative included enhancing operational and financial performance, implementing new information systems, revamping operations, and bringing in new management focused on profitable strategies rather than cost reductions affecting quality or human resources. He placed a world-class CEO and his team, with over twenty years in the automotive sector.

Cross-Border Transaction: Successfully executed a complex cross-border restructuring to facilitate and close the strategic acquisition of a prominent Mexican company by a major French conglomerate. Currently, he is one of only two partners spearheading a high-profile, multi-billion-dollar cross-border transaction between a top-tier Asian conglomerate and a leading Mexican company.

Global Experience

Raúl has held senior leadership roles in top-tier corporate finance and strategic consulting organizations worldwide. At PwC, he founded the Russian consulting practice from the ground up, transforming it into the most successful and recognized operation in Russia and Eastern Europe. At another world-class consulting firm, he built and led a team of over 3,000 professionals, managing full P&L responsibility and driving substantial global growth.

Raúl’s experience includes leading complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions across diverse geographies, including transactions between France and Mexico, the United States and Russia, the United Kingdom and Jamaica, Spain and Argentina, and the United States and Ecuador. He has lived in Italy, Mexico, and the United States, and has successfully led projects throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Education and Skills

MBA in Corporate Finance: Indiana University in Bloomington.

BSc in Industrial Engineering: Metropolitan University of Mexico.

Certificate in Business Negotiations: Yale University.

Languages: Fluent in English and Spanish, with an understanding of Italian and basic knowledge of Russian.