Our Senior Team
Augusto Sasso
Biography
Augusto Sasso is a Managing Director and serves as Global Head of Capital Markets and Global Head of Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging & Leisure (REGLL) and Consumer & Retail at Moelis & Company. Augusto has nearly 30 years of diversified investment banking and real estate experience, having completed numerous high-profile M&A transactions, joint venture partnerships, equity and debt financings, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings with both U.S. and international clients.
Augusto has extensive experience building and managing investment banking franchises at Moelis & Company. He joined the Firm at its inception and was instrumental in establishing and leading Moelis & Company’s Middle East Investment Banking Group. Augusto has been based in Los Angeles, Dubai, London, New York, and Dallas.
Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Augusto was an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and a real estate investor with Preservation Partners Development. Before that, he held corporate finance and business development positions with Raytheon Company and Hughes Electronics. Augusto holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated first in his class, magna cum laude, with an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona.