Selected Clients:

The increasingly global environment of the automotive industry drives participants to pursue strategic opportunities far beyond their traditional home markets. Consolidation, global platforms, the rise of Asian OEMs as global players, and the relentless drive for cost reduction create unique challenges for automotive suppliers, who must find solutions which encompass supply chain and markets across both Asia and the West. Western companies seek to supply Asian OEMs and Asian markets, while Asian suppliers strive to access global markets and technology in order to support their traditional customers and expand internationally.

BDA has worked for major Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers from North America, Europe and Asia on a wide range of strategic projects and corporate finance transactions, such as:

• Acquisition target search in South East Asia for Visteon
• Acquisition advisory in Korea for Lear
• Acquisition and partner search in Asia, strategic licensing advisory and acquisition advisory for Intier Automotive
• Acquisition target search and acquisition advisory in China and Korea for Seton
• Corporate finance advice to the Joint Administrators of T&N, the subsidiary of Federal Mogul
• M&A advice in Asia for Tenneco Automotive