We have many years of international experience both as entrepreneurs and as consultants in a wide range of industries.
Our clients, business partners and employees can always rely on our honorable attitude, absolute discretion and our performance commitments. We stand by our word.
Our clients, business partners and employees can always rely on our honorable attitude, absolute discretion and our performance commitments. We stand by our word.
The highest quality is not only the standard we set for our services for our clients, but also an inner attitude that determines our daily actions.
The highest quality is not only the standard we set for our services for our clients, but also an inner attitude that determines our daily actions.
As the basis for creativity, innovation and perseverance, passion is our driving force with which we develop sustainably successful solutions for and with our clients.
As the basis for creativity, innovation and perseverance, passion is our driving force with which we develop sustainably successful solutions for and with our clients.
Our thoughts and actions are geared towards the best possible cooperation between people with different backgrounds, because we are deeply convinced that different perspectives and individual skills are enriching and together achieve better results.
Our thoughts and actions are geared towards the best possible cooperation between people with different backgrounds, because we are deeply convinced that different perspectives and individual skills are enriching and together achieve better results.
Alexander Tiedtke has extensive experience in the sale and acquisition of companies, both as a family entrepreneur and as a consultant.
After working as a management consultant in Germany and for a DAX company in Asia-Pacific with residences in Singapore and Sydney, he took over a 3rd generation group of companies in Hamburg in 2000. Since selling the operational business in 2019, he has been active as an entrepreneur in the software and real estate sectors, among others.
Alexander Tiedtke has extensive experience in supervisory bodies and association organizations.
He holds a degree in business administration and studied business administration, psychology and computer science at the University of Hamburg. He received his doctorate in economics from the Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. He is also a colonel in the German Federal Armed Forces Reserve.
Anja Tiedtke has gained extensive experience as a management consultant in a wide range of industries in Germany and abroad.
After working for a US management consultancy in Germany and Singapore and as a freelance consultant in Sydney, she returned to Germany as a project manager at one of the Big Five professional service firms. And after the company was taken over by a Big Four firm, she was responsible for management projects in Hamburg.
In the meantime, Mrs. Tiedtke had shifted her focus to managing a large family.
She holds a master's degree in business administration and studied business administration and psychology at the University of Hamburg.
As an entrepreneur and investor, Thilo von Selchow has extensive experience in the development, acquisition and sale of companies.
After working for an investment company in Munich, he initially worked as a managing director in the family business before investing in a company in the semiconductor industry in Dresden, which he managed as CEO for over 16 years. Since selling the company to a US semiconductor manufacturer in 2012, he has focused his entrepreneurial activities on developing and managing his portfolio of technology companies in Germany and Switzerland.
Mr. von Selchow holds seats on various supervisory bodies.
He holds a degree in business administration and studied business administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
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.
