Salsberg joins FTI’s New York office as global head of M&A within the transactions practice, bringing more than 25 years of strategy and transactions experience at consulting firms, Fortune 500s, and law firms.
In his new role, Salsberg will work with leaders of FTI Consulting’s diligence, merger integration and carveout, tax, human capital, and digital teams to create holistic solutions for clients pursuing bulge bracket and cross-border transactions.
He joins from EY, where he spent the last eight years and was the global M&A leader in the strategy and transactions group. Before that, he spent three years at Avon as SVP and global chief strategy officer and 13 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a partner.
Salsberg began his career as a corporate transactions lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
“Brian is known for his ability to help organizations — large corporate clients — navigate the challenges and opportunities a transformative transaction creates and for his willingness to give clients sound advice, even if it’s not what they want to hear in the moment,” said Scott Bingham, a senior managing director and co-leader of global transactions at FTI Consulting. “These attributes make him an excellent fit with our client-focused, roll-up-our-sleeves culture, which prioritizes bringing senior counsel to clients in all the moments that matter and delivering meaningful results in even the most complex scenarios.”
FTI Consulting’s transaction practice helps clients across the transaction lifecycle, including due diligence, identification of cost and revenue synergies, generation of employee support, deal communications, securing regulatory approvals, and developing and implementing day 1 through day 100-plus plans.
Driscoll joins FTI’s New York office as leader of the new national security offering, which will provide risk compliance advisory and investigative services to private sector clients in critical industries such as financial services, healthcare, energy, and semiconductors.
Driscoll most recently spent 26 years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, latterly serving as assistant director-in-charge of the New York office. He has extensive experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, criminal investigations, and national security.
Before his tenure at the FBI, Driscoll was an attorney at Trief & Olk.
“Our global interconnectedness and reliance on technology for essential services can present significant threats, including to national security, if proper risk mitigation strategies are not implemented,” said Anthony Ferrante, a senior managing director at FTI Consulting. “A single incident can have cascading impacts and create sustained disruption, emphasizing the need to help the private sector ensure they are doing their part in protecting national security interests.”
The national security team will advise on issues including cyber risk and attacks, insider threats, espionage, export controls, sanctions, and cross-border data sharing.
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