Javier Faus

Javier Faus (born August 23, 1964, in Barcelona, Spain) is a private equity professional who leads the fund management firm Meridia Capital Partners. He has managed over two billion euros of investments/divestments since 2001, mostly in real estate in Spain, France and Latin America. Between 2010 and 2015 he was economic and strategic vice president at FC Barcelona. Since 2008, he is Vice President of Real Club de Tenis Barcelona.

He has a Law Degree by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, a Masters in International Law from Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) and an Executive MBA from ESADE Business School (Barcelona).

Prior to his investment career, Faus worked as an M&A lawyer in New York City 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.

In 2006 he founded Meridia Capital Partners, a private equity fund management firm specialized in private equity and real estate. Its first fund, "Meridia I", invested in premium urban hotel real estate globally, including the W 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, among others.

In 2014 Meridia Capital launched "Meridia II", investing in the Spanish real estate sector. In February 2016, the fund manager launched Meridia III, a real estate fund similar to Meridia II in terms of strategy (Spain; Value-added; CRE). Later on, Meridia Capital made initial strides in the private equity industries through Meridia Private Equity I.

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.

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 W Paris Opera Hotel