Tariffs and shifting trade policies are critical factors in M&A decisions across the manufacturing and consumer products landscape. As companies look to expand, consolidate, or restructure operations, understanding the trade-related risks and opportunities is essential.

This webcast, Manufacturing and Consumer Products: M&A Tariff Implications, brings together M&A, trade, and industry specialists to examine how tariffs are influencing deal valuation, due diligence, and post-deal integration strategies. Discover how changing global trade dynamics are reshaping investment theses, operational synergies, and long-term growth strategies.

Key takeaways:

• How tariffs are affecting M&A activity, valuations, and deal structures
• Considerations for cross-border transactions and supply chain due diligence
• Strategies to identify and manage tariff-related risks in M&A

Bradley Porter, Partner, Moss Adams

Brad has practiced public accounting and worked in transaction services since 2004. He has a comprehensive understanding of various client industries and technical expertise in performing due diligence engagements and drafting quality of earnings reports.

Brad has worked on various M&A transactions and has served both private equity and corporate strategic investors with a focus on the middle market of manufacturing and distribution, health care, technology, and energy service companies.

Torre Hammer, CPA, Partner, Moss Adams

Torre leads the firm’s Manufacturing & Consumer Products Practice. He has practiced public accounting since 2004, and provides corporate audit, review, transaction, and consulting services.

Torre works with middle market clients that are family-owned, closely held, and institutionally funded. He brings innovative and collaborative solutions to his clients and leads the private equity initiative for the firm’s manufacturing and consumer products industry group.

Dominic Cellitti, CFP, Senior Manager, Moss Adams

Dominic has provided financial planning solutions and investment advice to his clients since 2013. Primarily serving closely held businesses, executives, and families, he helps them prepare for transactions, retirement, and other complex wealth management needs by leveraging his expertise in cash flow planning, investment diversification, and risk management.

Dominic also focuses on the wealth aspects of estate planning, including multigenerational planning, gifting, and charitable giving strategies.

Paula Campbell Roberts, Chief Investment Strategist, KKR

Paula joined KKR in 2017 and is the chief investment strategist for the firm’s global wealth business and a managing director on KKR’s Global Macro and Asset Allocation (GMAA) team. Building on nearly a decade of experience working in partnership with KKR’s investment teams to identify investment themes, perform due diligence, and conduct deal underwriting from a macro perspective, as well as a decade as an economist, Paula now advises global wealth management partners on macroeconomics and asset allocation, with a focus on the role that private assets, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and credit, can play in individual investor portfolios. In conjunction with the GMAA team, Paula continues to perform macroeconomic, thematic investing, and asset allocation research.