We offer the entire service portfolio for the successful sale of your company as well as the acquisition of companies, including the corresponding strategy, value enhancement and integration.
Whether for succession in your own company, the search for strategic partners or the implementation of a "buy and build" strategy: we support entrepreneurs and investors in finding their way through complex, dynamic market situations and the (further) development of concrete strategic options for action through the sale or targeted acquisition of companies.
We pursue a market-oriented, entrepreneurial approach in which we consider the prospects for a company based on its potential and the existing competitive situation.
In order to prepare for the sale of a company in a targeted, long-term manner, if the relevant sales maturity or the necessary market circumstances are not yet sufficiently given, we accompany entrepreneurs at an early stage before a transaction in order to create the optimal conditions for a successful result and to ensure the realization of the best possible company value.
And following a takeover, the most challenging part of a transaction project usually begins: the merging of structures, processes and cultures. We can also make valuable contributions here
We do not see ourselves as traditional consultants, but rather as comprehensive advisors who enable entrepreneurs and management to independently steer the strategic development steps for the company. After all, value enhancement and integration processes in particular place the highest demands on management performance.
The sale of a company means much more than pure financial arithmetic and a multitude of technical terms, especially for SMEs.
First of all, selling your own company is a highly emotional task, because it is nothing less than the sale of your own life's work or the life's work of a family with a tradition that spans generations.
Due to our personal experience with the sale of our own companies, we can understand very well how entrepreneurs feel in such situations and can therefore provide individual support.
We also have a comprehensive range of expertise and extensive connections to ensure the success of transaction processes securely and with absolute discretion.
The acquisition of a company or a merger with another company can represent excellent opportunities to improve the competitive position in the established market through inorganic growth, to gain access to new markets or even to open up completely new business areas.
We identify and discreetly approach suitable target companies, manage the due diligence and the market-driven valuation of the target and negotiate with the seller.
The entrepreneurs who turn to us are concerned with a range of issues relating to the best solution for the future of their company, such as its strategic development, the financing of further growth, different ideas of the shareholders or even succession planning. And these can all lead to the sale of a company.
They then have to deal with issues in two key dimensions: on a substantive and technical level with the strategic, financial and legal aspects, and on an emotional level, such as letting go, different perspectives within the family or loyalty to long-standing employees and the company's traditions and values.
We are not only very familiar with this area of tension from our clients, but also because we ourselves had to deal intensively with these considerations when we sold our own companies. We therefore know from our own experience exactly what it means for an entrepreneur to face these challenges. And this is precisely what makes a big difference in the support - and not just advice - we provide to our clients throughout the entire process of selling a company.
All in all, we are not primarily concerned with selling a company as quickly as possible, but with finding the best solution for the owners of their company.
We offer not only advice on the sale of a company, but also personal support for the entire sales process from start to finish, tailored to the individual needs of the entrepreneur.
After all, this is not just about purely technical issues that require a flawless service in terms of content, but also and in particular about the very personal issues that are often associated with great emotion, especially in family businesses. After all, it often concerns one's own life's work or even the family's life's work across generations.
As we have experience with the sale of our own companies - including our own family business in the third generation - we can understand this very well and thus offer partnership-based support at eye level from entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, which at times has the character of coaching or mentoring and is anything but common in the market.
In addition, thanks to our decades of experience as consultants and entrepreneurs as well as in numerous committees such as supervisory boards, advisory boards and associations, we not only have a large international network, but also close personal relationships with decision-makers in entrepreneurial and investor circles.
Even though entrepreneurs primarily want to ensure that their life's work and their employees are are in good hands, they naturally also want to achieve the best possible value for their company.
We therefore generally recommend always recommend selling through aauction process with a limited number of selectedparticipants participants to be carried outin which both strategic investors and financial investors and then and then targeted, but still completely anonymously approached in order to invite them to submit an indicative offer. In this way can then a few few candidates in short shortlist for the next stage of the process in be, which regularly leads to significantly higher salessare achieved be than in a one-to-one situation.
However, this requires the right candidate selectionselection. And the includes with our proven market knowledge and excellent networks at home and abroad are certainly one of our particular strengths.
Since we are convinced that our clients, as successful entrepreneurs, are the best industry experts, we also see a significant contribution from us in the fact that we can offer an additional perspective for the equity story with a “neutral” view from the outside, i.e. without “operational blindness”, which very often results in additional added value for the sale.
In conjunction with our personal backgrounds and extensive experience in a wide range of sectors such as industry, retail, services, software, technology, banking and real estate, we therefore see being sector-agnostic as a particular strength.
