Alvarez & Marsal hires Patrick Daoust as managing director in Montreal

Alvarez & Marsal, a New York-headquartered management consulting firm, has hired Patrick Daoust as a managing director in its transaction advisory group (TAG) in Montreal.

Daoust brings nearly 25 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions marketplace, specializing in operational due diligence and performance improvement advisory services for private equity and corporate transactions in Canada and the US.

He has industry expertise across aerospace, industrials, business services, and consumer products.

Daoust joins A&M from Roland Berger, where he was a partner. Before that, he was a partner at Oliver Wyman and Accenture.

He began his consulting career at Deloitte, where he was a senior manager.

Daoust has a professional engineer’s degree from Polytechnique Montréal.

“Canada is a critical market for Global TAG, and its growth continues to accelerate,” said Scott Foster, head of TAG in Canada. “Patrick’s arrival better positions us to support local clients’ operational and performance improvement needs. His multi-sector experience, especially in temporary and project-based staffing, along with retail and consumer goods, will help us deliver value-focused solutions in a market where clients are building and executing value creation plans earlier and taking smarter approaches for driving growth.”

A&M’s global transaction advisory group is the largest such practice outside of the Big Four accountancies. The group has over 1,000 professionals in 40 offices supporting acquirers in private equity, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, hedge funds, and corporations.

A&M provides advisory, business performance improvement, and turnaround management services to companies, investors, and government entities. The firm has more than 11,000 employees across 83 offices on six continents.

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