A client-focused approach to industrial M&A

Unbiased advice, specialized experience and creative execution

Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC (DCF) is an active adviser to industrial middle-market companies across the products and services sectors globally. Our team combines transaction experience from hundreds of successful deals with a sector-focused approach, offering deep knowledge and eminence in our core industry segments. We maintain regular dialogue with both strategic players and financial sponsors and offer up-to-date market insights to our clients. Our professionals understand the unique attributes of industrial products and services value chains and how to position our clients’ differentiated characteristics to achieve results. We are leaders in mergers and acquisitions (M&A)—guiding clients through the transaction process with tailored approaches to meet specific industrial investment banking needs.

Our experience in industrial M&A

Our industrials team helped clients navigate more than 40 successful transaction processes across a wide variety of industry sectors in the last 24 months, including majority and minority sales, strategic exits, targeting and acquisition advisory, employee stock ownership plans, and private financing transactions. We guided clients through supply chain changes, commodity price fluctuations, and labor challenges as well as helped position technology advancements, intellectual property, and sustainable growth stories with amazing results.

Industry sectors

• Aerospace & Defense
• Automotive
• Building Products
• Industrial Distribution
• Industrial Services
• Industrial Technology & Automation
• Energy
• Engineering & Construction
• General Manufacturing
• Paper, Plastics & Packaging
• Test, Inspection & Certification
• Transportation & Logistics

How we can help

Leveraging deep sector knowledge and transaction experience, DCF offers a tailored, client-focused approach to M&A. Our professionals appreciate that every client and business is unique. We work closely with our clients to understand their goals and structure a transaction process focused on those objectives.

Our team provides strategic, hands-on guidance throughout each stage of the process—from evaluating liquidity options to closing. Through years of experience, we have developed critical insights into value drivers, investor concerns and mitigants, and transaction management strategies. DCF’s model combines M&A experience with a global network of resources to help clients navigate the transaction process.

We continue to cultivate strong relationships with key strategic players and private equity groups in the business and financial services space. Continuous and transparent dialogue with major stakeholders has resulted in effective outcomes and real-time insights that help our clients navigate a rapidly changing environment.

By tailoring processes to changing market conditions, we’ve pivoted to innovative tactics, so our clients can tell their stories effectively to priority buyers and investors. It is our belief that smart preparation and clean execution help enable efficient processes for our clients and engage eager buyers.

Stay informed

To keep you informed of trends, our quarterly industry updates provide an overview of key marketplace trends and M&A transactions, including industry analysis and a reference list of publicly traded companies.

Check out some of our latest insights to stay ahead of what’s next:

Read our most recent quarterly Industrials M&A updates.