Are you thinking about selling your printing, packaging or display graphics company? As M&A experts in the printing, packaging and display graphics industries, Peter Schaefer and Jim Russell of New Direction Partners will be discussing the steps potential sellers need to be taking as they plan for a sale. With many years of experience in this area and having facilitated more than 300[CS1] industry mergers and acquisitions, New Direction Partners has its finger on the pulse of the latest trends, opportunities and barriers in what is arguably one of the most dynamic M&A environments we have seen in many years.
In this session, you will learn:
• The steps potential sellers should be taking to prepare their companies for sale;
• The different types of buyers who are active in M&A in the printing, packaging and display graphics industries;
• The types of deals we are seeing and how they are structured; and
• How best to translate all of this to your decision-making process.
Even if you don’t see a sale on your immediate horizon, this session will provide you with valuable information and insight about the best ways to position your company so you are better prepared if and when that time comes.
Paul Reilly has been in the industry for over 40 years and for the last twelve years has been providing investment banking and financial advisory services for sellers and buyers, valuation services, financing and refinancing efforts, strategic...
eter Schaefer is a Partner with New Direction Partners. Peter is an experienced dealmaker with thirty years of investment banking and valuation experience. He has closed more than one hundred transactions in virtually every segment of the printing...
Prior to New Direction Partners, Jim Russell was President and CEO of Arbor Press in Royal Oak (Detroit), Michigan. During his tenure at Arbor Press, the company was recognized as an eight-time winner of the National Association for Printing...
Tom Williams concentrates on Investment Banking Services and providing client companies with management, turnaround and restructuring support. He brings substantial management and financial services experience to New Direction Partners, based on...
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