Luther G.

M&A Financial Models & Due Diligence | Ex-Private Equity

I help people on both sides of a deal see it the way the other side does. Buyers hire me to find the problems before they wire funds. Sellers hire me to fix the problems before a buyer finds them. I trained in M&A at Morgan Stanley, then spent 15+ years buying and evaluating companies as a private equity and credit investor (Apax Partners, Elliott Management, Athyrium), reviewing thousands of deals and building the models behind them. Now I do the same work for individual buyers, searchers, business owners, and small firms. What I deliver For buyers: - Acquisition and LBO models built from actual financials, with debt schedules, returns, and sensitivity cases - Due diligence support: financial review, red flags, adjusted EBITDA, and key questions to evaluate opportunities and risks - Deal structuring - Lender presentations and negotiations For sellers: - CIMs, management presentations, and positioning, written by someone who knows how buyers actually evaluate companies - Financial models for a sale process, raising capital, or planning - Pre-sale financial review: the issues a buyer will find in diligence, surfaced while you can still fix them - LOI and offer reviews: what the terms mean, what's negotiable, and how different factors impact what a buyer will pay Fast turnaround, fixed-price options available, and I explain everything in plain English.