Transaction Advisory
RPM Partners delivers data-driven transaction support, enabling you to evaluate, negotiate, and execute deals with clarity and confidence, while delivering insights that directly drive better outcomes. By going beyond headline valuation, combining rigorous financial modeling with a ground-up assessment of business fundamentals, you understand not just what a business looks like on paper, but how it actually operates.
What We Do
RPM Partners brings integrated transaction advisory capabilities to complex, high-stakes environments. Our analysis combines robust financial modeling with thorough operational and strategic evaluation, providing stakeholders with a complete picture of the risks and opportunities inherent in any transaction.
Our financial modeling capabilities:
Volume and pricing analysis
Scenario and sensitivity modeling
Creditor recovery analysis
Quality of earnings and cash flow assessment
Working capital and liability evaluation
Our evaluative work includes:
Customer concentration and dependency analysis
Operational capabilities and potential synergies
Buyer history and portfolio concentrations
Lender recovery potential
Organizational structure and management capability
Strategic fit within the buyer's or investor's objectives
Our Approach
At RPM Partners, Transaction Advisory is not a top-down financial diligence exercise. We combine rigorous financial analysis with a bottom-up assessment of fundamentals, capturing operational capacity, constraints, customer fit, organizational structure, culture, and execution readiness.
This integrated approach provides actionable insights that reflect how an organization truly operates before and after a transaction.
RPM's Core Differentiator
We combine financial rigor with ground-up operational assessment. Our conclusions reflect how a business actually performs, not just how it appears in financial statements.
Service Areas
Bottom-Up Business Assessment
We evaluate operational capacity and utilization, manufacturing footprint and constraints, customer and program concentration, organizational structure and management depth, and culture and decision-making effectiveness.
Financial Due Diligence & Modeling
We develop integrated financial models covering the income statement, cash flow, and balance sheet, with scenario and sensitivity analysis tied to key value drivers including volume, pricing, costs, and customer behavior.
Strategic Fit & Transaction Rationale
We assess customer, OEM, and supply chain dynamics to evaluate strategic alignment, identify dependency risks, and find synergy opportunities and execution challenges.
Operational Readiness & Execution Risk
We identify launch readiness issues, bottlenecks, labor constraints, and capital investment requirements. These operational factors determine whether a transaction achieves its objectives post-close.
Deal Structuring & Negotiation Support
We translate diligence findings into transaction-relevant insights, supporting valuation discussions, deal structuring, and negotiation using defensible, data-driven analysis.
Who We Serve
OEMs
Evaluate transactions involving critical suppliers, including sales, divestitures, recapitalizations, and special-situation transactions. Assess the financial, operational, and execution implications on supply continuity, program launches, and quality and delivery performance.
Automotive Suppliers
Assess transaction readiness and viability for organizations exploring a sale, recapitalization, or new ownership. Identify risks, value drivers, and execution challenges. Develop defensible analyses to support discussions with buyers, lenders, and customers.
Private Equity Sponsors
Support acquisitions, add-on transactions, and exit planning for organizations with automotive exposure. Emphasize bottom-up diligence, operational execution risk, and realistic value creation and downside protection.
Lenders & Capital Providers
Provide independent assessment of business fundamentals and cash flow sustainability for special-situation transactions, restructurings, refinancings, and change-of-control events. Clarify transaction feasibility and execution risk.
Typical Engagements
Transaction Advisory Services are frequently deployed in:
Acquisition or divestiture of automotive suppliers or assets
Distress-driven or time-sensitive transactions
Supplier viability assessments tied to customer or ownership decisions
Capital raises, refinancings, or structured financings
Transactions where operational execution risk is as critical as valuation
Deliverables
Typical engagement deliverables include:
Transaction diligence reports covering financial, operational, and strategic dimensions
Integrated financial and scenario models
Risk and opportunity assessments
Strategic fit and execution-readiness analyses
Negotiation and deal-structuring support materials
Why RPM Partners
RPM Partners brings a fundamentals-driven approach to every transaction — integrating financial, operational, strategic, and organizational analysis. Our deep automotive industry knowledge allows us to move quickly, identify the issues that matter most, and focus diligence on the factors that drive real value.
Ready to Talk?
Whether you are evaluating a supplier, assessing a transaction, or seeking clarity on financial performance, we can help you move forward with confidence.
