As you prepare for your next step—whether it’s financing your retirement with a business sale or graduating to your next business venture—a premium sale price can help you make your dreams for the future a reality. Too often, however, owners have unrealistic...
Headquartered in St.Paul, Minnesota, Aero Systems Engineering (ASE) is the leading global provider of mission-critical testing and engineering services to aircraft engine and airframe OEMs, operators, maintenance, repair, and overhaul providers, in both commercial and...
While the Raytheon and United Technologies merger had gotten most of the media’s attention, M&A activity for family and private equity-owned defense supply-chain participants has stayed consistent despite COVID-19 challenges. This blockbuster deal may temporarily...
The economic disruption of COVID has had impacts in various A&D sectors. In commercial aerospace, the effects are immediate and dramatic, while defense remains mostly untouched. We don’t know yet what all of this will mean over the long-term, but as with previous...
Given today’s environment, M&A activity in the aerospace and defense industry seems to be evolving on a daily basis. Since we last released our Quarterly Industry Review (March 2020), there has been a substantial improvement in key underlying metrics that drive...