Mr Francisco Pacho Rey

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Bio

Senior Managing Director in Blackstone Advisory Partners. Since joining Blackstone, is focused on expanding Blackstone’s international Telecom, Media and Technology practice. Before joining Blackstone in 2007, worked at Merrill Lynch where he executed some of the largest and most complex transactions in the broad communications space. Most recently, based in London, he headed the TMT practice for Southern and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In this capacity, he led a variety of acquisitions, divestments and corporate restructurings for Telefónica, Telecom Italia, Portugal Telecom, OTE, Cable & Wireless, Etisalat, France Telecom, China Mobile, Hutchison and Auna, among others, including leading private equity houses. These assignments have broadened Mr Rey’s experience to Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. Has also led transactions in the media industry for companies such as Vocento and TPI; and in technology for Amadeus, Telefonica Data, Infonet, Telvent and Concert. Before moving to London in 2000, was based in New York. Transaction experience there includes the merger of Bell Atlantic with NYNEX and, subsequently, GTE; the formation of the Verizon Wireless partnership with Vodafone; various privatisations in Latin America; the formation and subsequent restructuring of Sprint PCS and various acquisitions by BellSouth in North and South America. BA and MS in Economics and Law from the University of Deusto in Spain. MBA from the Columbia University School of Business where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the Dean’s Honors List.

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