Advising Chemicals & Advanced Materials Businesses
Our Chemical and Advanced Materials team provides strategic advisory services to companies across the global chemical value chain. With decades of sector-focused M&A related experience, we advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, strategic partnerships, and corporate growth initiatives. Our extensive industry relationships provide direct access to senior executives, strategic acquirers, private companies, private equity firms, manufacturers, and distributors worldwide. Through deep understanding of the market and industry dynamics, we deliver informed guidance on consolidation trends, with many assignments involving privately owned companies where ownership decisions are linked to portfolio repositioning or succession including proprietary searches where attractive businesses are not publicly marketed. Each engagement is handled with an understanding of operating risk and the practical conditions required for completion. Our approach allows us to provide highly tailored advice and transaction execution capabilities across specialty and commodity chemicals, petrochemicals, agrochemicals, distribution and adjacent industrial markets.
Chemicals & Advanced Materials Sector Overview
CDI Global’s chemicals sector coverage spans agricultural chemicals, coatings, adhesives and sealants, lubricants, mining chemicals, personal care ingredients, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals, plastics, packaging, petrochemicals, polymers and resins, oilfield chemicals, and related specialty and commodity chemical markets. Our industry specialists, many of whom are former executives, possess extensive expertise across the technology, manufacturing, production, and distribution segments of these industries. We maintain ongoing relationships with producers, manufacturers, distributors, and investors globally while continuously monitoring market developments and industry trends. Our experience includes specialized subsectors such as additives, epoxies, flame retardants, functional fluids, flavors and fragrances, surfactants, paper chemicals, UV & radiation cure technologies, and advanced material applications, enabling us to provide clients with differentiated market insight and strategic perspective.
Our Experience in Chemicals & Advanced Materials
CDI Global has completed over 200 transactions in the Chemical sector through longstanding dedication and focus to our global clients preferred acquisition and divestment strategies. Our transaction experience spans strategic acquisitions, cross-border transactions, carve-outs, and sell-side and company search or buy-side advisory assignments across a broad range of chemical subsectors. Recent engagements have strengthened our expertise in specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, coatings, adhesives, plastics, packaging, oil & gas, and pharmaceutical intermediates. This extensive transaction history, combined with our sector knowledge and global reach, enables us to provide clients with informed strategic advice and efficient execution across complex and highly specialized chemical markets.
