Consumer Products & Retail Investment Banking Group

Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC’s (EYCA) Consumer Products & Retail group is an industry-focused investment banking team with broad global reach through the global EY network.

The team

Photographic portrait of Ankur Kashyap
Ankur Kashyap
Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC US Consumer Products & Retail Investment Banking, Managing Director
Photographic portrait of Nigel Bell
Nigel Bell
Senior Managing Director and US Head of Consumer & Retail Investment Banking, Ernst & Young LLP

What we can do for you

Our investment banking professionals have in-depth consumer sector knowledge and have completed over 200 consumer transactions in recent years.

We focus on four main sectors: food, beverage and tobacco; household products and personal care; and consumer products and retail.

Our team has experience advising clients on a diverse range of transaction types across consumer sectors and subsectors, including:

Food, Beverage & Tobacco
  • Branded and PL packaged food
  • Beverages (including alcoholic beverages)
  • Food service, grocery & C-store distribution
  • Fruits, vegetables & other produce
  • Ingredients
  • Meat & protein
  • Natural & organic
  • Snacks
Household Products & Personal Care
  • Home decor & accessories
  • Housewares
  • Hair care
  • Skin care
  • e-commerce
Consumer Products
  • Consumer durables
  • Footwear, apparel & accessories
  • Outdoor & lifestyle
Retail
  • Apparel retail
  • Hardlines retail
  • Franchising
  • Restaurants
  • Specialty retail

Representative transactions

Our team

Ankur Kashyap

Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC US Consumer Products & Retail Investment Banking, Managing Director
Consumer & Retail buyside and sellside M&A advisor. Impassioned by disruption in Consumer & Retail sector. NYU Stern and Northwestern Kellogg alumnus.
New York, NY, United States

Nigel Bell

Senior Managing Director and US Head of Consumer & Retail Investment Banking, Ernst & Young LLP
Australian by birth, married with one child. Music, documentary and sports enthusiast.
New York, NY, United States

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