Adrian Trapp

About Adrian Trapp

Investment Banking/ M&A professional passionate about M&A deals and Private Equity investments• Strong end-to-end execution experience on M&A deals (sell-side and buy-side)• Proven LBO and DCF modelling skills• Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring juniorsEDUCATION• MBA from the world\'s top 10 institutions (Yale School of Management / IESE Business School)• MSc from Vienna University of Economics and Business with majors in Corporate Finance and Managerial Accounting • MS in Real Estate from Chapman UniversityPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Investment Banking• Experienced M&A professional with background in Investment Banking• Skilled in executing M&A deals, project management, financial modelling, company valuations and strategic evaluations• Successfully closed 14 transactions and worked on 35+ projects on sell-side and buy-side, across multiple industries and company situations• Advised large (listed) corporates, small and mid-size enterprises, private equity firms, entrepreneurs and start-upsPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Management Consulting• Optimized third-party spend for PE-owned media company, identifying cost-reduction levers across Travel & Expense and sourcing alternative event vendors to lower procurement costs• Supported carve-out and stand-alone assessment of software company, building benchmark-driven should-cost model across all major functions and leveraging spans-and-layers analysis to assess org efficiency• Led venture build for AI-enabled ESG / Real Estate software concept, validating business model through stakeholder interviews and competitive benchmarking; built financial/ROI model and defined MVP scope, GTM strategy, and org design to support POC launch and investment case• Drove end-to-end manufacturing site selection strategy for European trailer truck company’s North American expansion, conducting multi-round down-selection across 7 regions and building total landed cost model incorporating labor, logistics, and tariffs• Supported IMO for IT solutions provider, consolidating cross-functional integration plans, maintaining dependency and decision logs across workstreams, and preparing executive materials to accelerate pre-merger planning and Day-1 readiness• Conducted operational DD for PE client on potential acquisition of ERP software company, performing outside-in assessment • Drove cost transformation for a multi-division healthcare company facing margin erosion; evaluated base, rebuild, and wind-down scenarios and built bottom-up EBITDA model identifying savings across US/global labor

Experience

1. Management Consultant in Mergers & Acquisitions

   AlixPartners

   Jan 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

Education

• Yale School of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2018 — 2019

• IESE Business School

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2017 — 2019

• Chapman University

  Master of Science - MS, Real Estate