M&A case study

Hi, I have a case study coming up for an M&A generalist manager position. Already done partner and director interviews. Does anyone have any experience with "Do a quick back of the envelope analysis to calculate the companies FCF profile" or anything else to expect from an information memorandum?

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Can you give a bit more detail on the role (is this corpdev?) what the case study consist of? Reviewing a CIM?

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The role is working for big 4 as a m&a generalist for mid markets. Hope that helps. Thanks

I would google Paper LBO example and start there. My expectation is you would need to determine the last twelve months’ revenue and ebitda, make assumptions for revenue growth and ebitda margin, depreciation (either $ or % of revenue), capital expenditures and tax rate to reach free cash flow to the firm over a 5 year period. This may be explicitly stated in the CIM or you can make assumptions from what you read. Then you can determine how much debt the target company can handle given their free cash flows and whether the IRR would warrant an acquisition.

Forgot to add investment in working capital to what needs removed from ebitda to reach FCF.

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