Bill Fasel

Executive summary

Bill Fasel is a Managing Director in the Strategic Solutions practice within Advisory Services in the Chicago office of Grant Thornton LLP.

Bill has more than 25 years of advisory experience assisting multinational and middle-market clients with corporate restructuring, business transformation, corporate finance and strategic planning. Bill has provided a range of business advisory and M&A services to companies, debtors, lenders, unsecured creditors and private equity firms. Specifically, he has advised on business plan and corporate strategy development, turnaround initiatives, crisis management, capital structure advisory and facilitated numerous merger and acquisition transactions (both in and out-of-court).

Bill has served public and private companies across a variety of industries including manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, retail, transportation, oil & gas and financial services.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Bill held leadership roles with several professional services firms, including PwC’s Business Restructuring Services practice, Deloitte’s Corporate Restructuring Group, Mesirow Financial Consulting, Huron Consulting Group and Lehman Brothers.

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Turnaround Management Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors
• Association for Corporate Growth

Education

• MBA from the Kellogg School Management at Northwestern University
• Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan