Deal Ready: Assessing Your Readiness for What Comes Next
Presented By: Murphy McCormack / RKL LLP
Deal opportunities can take many forms—from raising capital or bringing on a financial partner to making an acquisition, pursuing a recapitalization or selling some or all of the business. But regardless of the transaction, preparation can determine both the options available and the ultimate outcome. What does it mean to be truly deal ready—from financials, operations and leadership to strategy, risk and organizational capacity? Hear how executives and advisors assess readiness, identify gaps before they become obstacles and position a business to act when the right opportunity arises.
Moderator:
Chief Content Officer
Smart Business
Dustin is an award-winning business journalist, bestselling author, and the chief content officer of Smart Business. Over the past 30 years, he has interviewed thousands of business and civic leaders, and helped more than 50 CEOs and entrepreneurs transform their ideas into books. A trained investigative politics reporter and former digital media entrepreneur, Dustin joined Smart Business in 1997 after serving as an editor at several daily newspapers.
Panelists:
CEO
Lionheart Industrial Group LLC
David Bovenizer is a co-founder that has built Lionheart Industrial Group into a global diversified group of industrial manufacturing business with three platforms in combustion systems; pneumatic valves; and precision aerospace and defense components. He has completed more than 30 transactions totaling over $2.0 billion in value including leveraged acquisitions, cross-border M&A, public debt offerings, joint ventures, acquisitions and divestitures.
President
BWXT Precision Custom Components
Gary Butler is president of Precision Components Group, LLC (PCG), which manufactures large pressure vessels, reactors, and complex equipment for the defense and energy sectors. Under his leadership, PCG has become a trusted supplier to the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, and NASA, delivering critical components for aircraft launch systems as well as propulsion, operational, and waste management equipment for aircraft carriers and submarines.
Butler joined PGG in 1971 and served in various management positions until 1992, when he joined Ionics Corporation as general manager of operations. Since returning to PCG in 1997, and becoming CEO in 2001, Butler has been instrumental in revitalizing the company, which today employs over 400 professionals and generates annual revenues exceeding $120 million.
Partner
RKL LLP
Over the course of his 15-year career, Ryan Hurst’s areas of expertise have included advising clients on buying and selling businesses, succession planning, conducting valuations for transactions and structures, litigation support for shareholder disputes and strategic alternatives analyses. He earned the Accredited Senior Appraiser designation in 2015.
Managing Partner
Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors
Bob is Managing Partner and Founding Partner of Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors, a boutique investment banking and corporate advisory firm in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. McCormack has more than 32 years of financial services experience, and focuses on providing advisory services related to business sales, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business valuations, debt and equity financing, and select turnaround projects. He formed Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors in 2005. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sun Bancorp, Inc., a $1 billion financial services holding company with bank branches and affiliates located throughout central Pennsylvania.