Paul Fossati Joins Sycamore Partners
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Paul Fossati Joins Sycamore Partners

sycamore partners nf3Paul Fossati has been hired by Sycamore Partners as the firm’s newest Managing Director.  Mr. Fossati will serve as Director of Capital Markets and will be responsible for all financings for the firm’s new investments and for existing portfolio companies.  As part of these responsibilities he will also maintain the firm’s relationships with financing sources.

“Paul is a well-respected finance professional with two decades of capital markets experience. We are thrilled to have someone of his caliber, quality, and reputation join the firm,” said Stefan Kaluzny, a Managing Director of Sycamore Partners. “As Sycamore continues to grow, having in-house capital markets expertise will create significant value.”

Mr. Fossati was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley in its Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Group, where he was head of both the consumer-retail and financial sponsor verticals.

“After working for years with the talented team at Sycamore Partners as my client, I am very excited to join the firm,” said Mr. Fossati. “I look forward to partnering with our financing providers to help continue to drive the success and growth that Sycamore Partners has enjoyed since its founding.”

Including his nearly nine years at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Fossati has 20 years of capital markets experience. Before Morgan Stanley he held positions in leveraged finance and investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers.  Mr. Fossati received his undergraduate degree in finance from the Wharton School of Business and has a JD from Harvard Law School.

Sycamore Partners invests in consumer and retail companies. The firm’s investment portfolio currently includes Aéropostale, Coldwater Creek, Hot Topic, Jones New York, the Kasper Group, Kurt Geiger, MGF Sourcing, Nine West Holdings, Pathlight Capital, and Talbots.  Sycamore Partners has more than $3.5 billion in capital under management and is based in New York (www.sycamorepartners.com).

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