Ryan J. Glazier

Ryan Glazier has more than 10 years of experience leading teams representing buyers, sellers and lenders. Mr. Glazier helps clients evaluate opportunities across the risk and return spectrum.

Mr. Glazier has advised clients on more than 200 transactions across a range of industries, with a focus on consumer products, food and beverage, industrials and infrastructure. His clients include Fortune 500 companies, large and middle-market private equity firms and mezzanine and senior lenders.

Mr. Glazier’s experience spans financial and operational consulting, financial advisory, transaction support and value creation services. He specializes in large buy-side carve-out transactions for private equity clients, including cross-border mandates and special situations. He identifies separation risks and connects functional separation and stand-up activities to their financial impact.

Mr. Glazier’s buy-side experience includes analyzing quality of earnings, quality of assets and working capital, as well as identifying potential liabilities and risks associated with proposed transactions. His sell-side and refinancing experience includes evaluating businesses for sale, assessing balance sheet and working capital requirements, developing value propositions and strategic plans, preparing financial forecasts and identifying business separation and transition issues.

Mr. Glazier has advised private equity funds and lenders, including Ares, Clearview Capital, Colbeck Capital, CORE Industrial Partners, Crystal Financial, CVC Partners, Energy Equation Partners, Entrepreneurial Equity Partners, Goldman Sachs, Industrial Opportunity Partners, Meridiam, Mubadala Capital, Platinum Equity, Prairie Capital, Stonepeak, TCW and Wynnchurch Capital. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, he was a supervisor in the transaction services practice at RSM US LLP, focusing on manufacturing and distribution businesses. Previously, he worked in assurance services, leading engagement teams that performed annual financial statement audits and quarterly reviews for public and large private companies in the manufacturing and consumer products industries.

Relevant Experience:

• Led financial due diligence on more than 15 food and beverage co-manufacturing and branded business transactions totaling more than $5 billion in enterprise value over the past three years
• Led carve-out financial diligence for a European downstream retail fuel business valued at more than $3 billion, assessing standalone financials, separation costs and transition services agreement requirements to support a private equity buyer’s valuation and integration planning
• Directed full-scope buy-side carve-out diligence for a multibillion-dollar public energy company, analyzing operational entanglements, corporate allocations and cost structures to inform transaction negotiations
• Oversaw carve-out diligence for a multibillion-dollar retail propane operator in North and Central America, analyzing standalone EBITDA, working capital and separation costs to support acquisition and integration strategy
• Developed a five-year strategic plan and integrated financial model for a U.S.-based iron foundry, incorporating a $160 million refinancing package tied to a $45 million add-on acquisition to support lender negotiations
• Led refinancing and tuck-in acquisition diligence for a $400 million consumer wine and spirits e-commerce platform, supporting integration planning, refinancing requirements and post-transaction growth objectives
• Reviewed the business plan, liquidity forecast and lender presentation for the refinancing of a $4.5 billion U.S. e-mobility platform to support capital structure refinancing and growth funding