About Us

GSM, is a Chicago area M&A Advisory firm founded by private equity investors, investment bankers, management consultants, and operating executives. Our core advisory services include Merger & Acquisition Sell Side Advisory, Corporate Development Acquisition Services, Private Placement Capital Raising/Structuring, Growth Strategy, Business Performance Improvement, Deal Due Diligence, Business Assessments, and Interim CXO services. The extensive relationships and experience of our advisors allows us to work with middle market companies across a wide range of industries including Manufacturing, Industrial Distribution, Transportation & Logistics, Business Services, Consumer Products, Data Centers, Sustainable Power Generation, Battery Technology, Fintech, Healthcare, Technology, and E-Commerce.

In addition, we work with growth and finacially challenged companies and their controlling shareholders to transition their business & operating models to the next level of performance.

The combination of our investment banking, board of directors, corporate finance, strategy, and operational expertise provides us with an unique value proposition when working with C-level executives, business owners, and Private Equity groups who need to prepare businesses for sale, value businesses, and explore strategic alternatives for mergers, growth capital, or financial restructuring. Private Equity Groups, Family Offices, and CXOs find our insights during due diligence to be particularly useful along with our expertise in post merger integration and business transformation initiatives.

As value added advisors to private equity groups and management teams, we strive to help our clients:

Achieve their Growth Objectives via debt & equity financing, acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, and private company majority and non majority sell side and buy side advisory services,
Execute adaptable business Strategies which create and sustain their competitive advantage and address emerging competitive threats,
Build efficient operating models which are supported by effective Management practices and operating metrics which better enable access to growth capital and higher valuations upon selling your company.

We have decades of experience and do not mince words, we will assess your company's prospects and provide realistic expectations and timelines.

As experienced investment bankers,corporate finance executives, board members, business advisors, and operating executives we have developed a large network of extensive relationships with strategic buyers, private equity, private credit investors, family offices, institutional investors and commercial banks which we integrate into our discrete go to market process.