Gayane Kirakosyan joined FocalPoint Partners in 2005 and has over eight years of investment banking experience advising companies on M&A transactions, debt and equity capital raises, and financial restructurings/bankruptcy. Prior to joining FocalPoint, Ms. Kirakosyan worked at Merrill Lynch & Co where she worked on transactions in a wide range of industries, most notably the $1.6 billion sale of 24 Hour Fitness to Forstmann Little & Co. Prior to working at Merrill Lynch, she worked at Wedbush Morgan Securities in their consumer products group.

While at FocalPoint, Ms. Kirakosyan has worked on several M&A, Capital Raise and Restructuring/Bankruptcy transactions including BioScrip’s (NASDAQ: BIOS) acquisition of Intravenous Therapy Services, the §363 bankruptcy sale of Bodies in Motion to Meridian Sports Clubs, Allion Healthcare, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ALLI) acquisition of Whittier Goodrich Pharmacy, financing the Planet Fitness acquisition of World Gym, providing advisory services to Shoe Pavilion (NYSE: SHOE) throughout its Chapter 11 proceedings, raising capital for Lucky Strike Entertainment, Inc., the recapitalization of Meridian’s Bodies in Motion, raising capital for the cosmetics company Physicians Formula (NASDAQ: FACE), providing advisory services to Closet World, Inc. in its Chapter 11 proceedings, raising capital for the restaurant chain Buca di Beppo, selling certain assets of Kidney Center, Inc. to DaVita (NYSE: DVA), RSC Equipment Rental’s (NYSE: RRR) acquisition of Independent Aerial Equipment, the §363 bankruptcy sale of Nurserymen’s Exchange Inc. to Monterey Peninsula Horticulture, Inc. and the §363 bankruptcy sale of Pacific High Reach to Sunbelt Rentals.

Ms. Kirakosyan graduated summa cum laude from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where she majored in Business Administration with a dual emphasis in Finance and Global Management.

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