Any IB/PE/ER firm specialized/known for covering weapons, ammo, soldier equipment, etc. manufacturers?
The issue is that most of the aerospace and defence groups cover mostly aerospace-defence stuff from my experience; there also is a lot of high tech defence related companies. However, I'm having hard time finding somebody knowledgeable about "traditional" (small) arms and ammo.
Thanks!
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what do you want to know? industry trends or a job? A&D firms don't focus on guns and ammo anymore because the focus is on technology including cyber, intel, recon, etc. it's the new wave for obvious reasons.
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Depending on the size, this sounds like a great PE candidate. I work in the European market and can tell you that your friend will have a hard time selling his business to financial investors. That said, I don't see a reason why he wouldn't sell to a strategic one, depending on the product which his company is selling. Either way, if the company isn't absolutely tiny, it might be worth to hire a M&A advisor.
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From my understanding, regulated banks generally stay away from this type of work. Not worth the legal or reputation risk.
Baird Consumer does a lot of work here. Andy Martin is the MD who runs the practice.
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