Chicago/Detroit
Areas of Expertise
- Finance
- Banking
- Restructuring/Turnaround Management
- Private Equity
Industries
- Automotive
- Wholesale/Distribution
- Industrial/Manufacturing
- Aviation
- Technology
- Healthcare
- Retail
- Banking/Refinancing
- Real Estate
Prominent Cases
- CRO, financial advisor and restructuring advisor in more than a dozen matters involving Tier-1 Automotive suppliers
- CRO for ICON Aircraft (dba SeaPlane) in CH 11 bankruptcy and concurrent successful sale of company assets. (The assignment won Transaction of the Year for Industrials<$1B9m&A Advisor
- Financial Advisor and Interim Chief Financial Officer for $230 million Rodeway Construction Co, leading refinancing of $48m debt facility
- CRO for a private-equity owned, distressed international steel company
- Financial Advisor and interim Chief Financial Officer for an early-stage Bio-diagnostics company
- CRO for a family office owned holding company of multi-site industrial manufacturing companies
- CRO/COO/CFO for Tier 2 Recreation Vehicle supplier
Designations
- MBA
- BBA
Education
- MBA, Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- BBA, Accountancy, University of Notre Dame
Experience
- 30 Years of Relevant Experience
Biography
Tom McCabe is a Senior Managing Director of B. Riley Advisory Services and has over 30 years of experience in automotive, finance, banking, restructuring/turnaround management and private equity with large, middle-market, public and privately held organizations.
Previously, he worked at Armanino as Senior Managing Director and at JS Held Financial Advisory Services as Principal/Managing Director in Restructuring/Turnaround/Receivership Services. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director/Central Region Leader at BDO Advisory Services and has worked as the Chicago market leader for a number of financial firms, including KPMG.
Tom works closely with clients regarding lender negotiations, debt restructuring, capital raising and re-financings, budgets and strategic planning. Industry experience includes work in the automotive industry, wholesale/distribution, industrial/manufacturing, aviation, technology, healthcare, retail, banking/refinancing and real estate sectors.
He has advised on corporate acquisitions and sales of entities with values ranging from $10 million to $1 billion in conjunction with private placements and ยง363 auctions. He has negotiated cash-flow-based and asset-based lines of credit, managed complex debt recapitalization, and secured debtor-in-possession facilities in addition to real estate, equipment and other working capital financing.
Tom has a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and a Master of Business Administration degree (finance and business strategy) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
He is an active member of the Turnaround Management Association and American Bankruptcy Institute and lives in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He is a certified public accountant, co-chairs the education committee at the SFNet, and has been a member of the board of directors at Wernle Youth & Family Treatment Center in Richmond, Indiana.
B. Riley Advisory Services works with lenders, law firms, private equity sponsors and companies of all types. Our Advisory Services are a unique mix of Valuation and Appraisal Services including asset-based lending (ABL) Valuations; Restructuring and Turnaround Management; Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support; Operations Management; Compliance, Risk & Resilience Services; and Transaction Support Services including Due Diligence and Quality of Earnings Reviews. B. Riley Advisory Services is the trade name for GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, LLC, Great American Group Advisory & Valuation Services, LLC, Great American Group Machinery & Equipment, LLC, and Great American Group Intellectual Property Advisors, LLC.