Manufacturing M&A in the Middle Market: How to Build Value, Reduce Deal Risk & Maximize your Outcome

Understanding how the mergers and acquisitions process works can help business owners maximize their business's value. 

Join Cypress Associates and Nterprisers for an important conversation designed to help business owners understand how strategic and financial acquirers approach valuation, the M&A deal process, accounting and legal due diligence, and strategies for mitigating transaction-specific risks.

Our interdisciplinary panel will bring together key players from across the M&A process to discuss how buyers, lenders, accountants, attorneys, and investment professionals evaluate manufacturing businesses and what owners can do 6 to 24 months before a transaction to improve value, certainty, and after-tax proceeds.

This event is exclusively for manufacturers and focuses on owners and senior executives of companies consistently generating $2MM or more in operating earnings.

What to Expect

• Explore what makes a manufacturing business valuable. Gain perspective on how buyers and financial partners evaluate a company beyond EBITDA, including synergies, operational strength, management depth, and risk. 

• Understand where deals can be re-priced or slowed. Learn how quality of earnings, working capital, customer concentration, data reliability, and other diligence considerations can affect a transaction. 

• Hear the lender's perspective. Understand how credit providers evaluate middle-market manufacturing businesses and how financing structure can influence deal certainty. 

• Learn how to prepare before you're ready to sell. Gain practical insight into what owners can do 6 to 24 months before a transaction to reduce risk, strengthen value, and improve potential after-tax proceeds. 

   

• Learn how better information supports both everyday growth and future opportunities. Nterprisers helps manufacturers maintain a visible, current company profile and connect directly through private messaging—creating a stronger foundation for commercial relationships today and for potential investment, financing, or acquisition opportunities in the future. 

Cost: No charge, with thanks to event sponsors.

Doors and the bar open at 4:30. The panel runs 5pm to 6:10pm, including audience Q&A, followed by drinks, appetizers, and networking.

Moderator
Investment Banking	Steven Kirkpatrick Managing Director Cypress Associates
Panelists
Manufacturer & Strategic Acquirer	Tom Finn CEO & Employee Co-Owner AVID Products
Accounting	Anthony Mangiarelli Partner, Director of Strategic Business Solutions KLR
Commercial Banking	Joe Confessore SVP & Managing Director, Commercial Banking Washington Trust
Legal	Jean Harrington Corporate Counsel Duffy & Sweeney, a division of Stevens & Lee