Corporate Finance / M&A

Our M&A Advisory team also contributes to this success. We support companies in the upper mid-market as M&A advisors in both domestic and international corporate acquisitions and divestitures – particularly in the structured implementation of:

• Succession Planning
• Growth Financing
• Carve-outs
• Special situations, such as Distressed M&A

In a dynamic and globalized economic environment, companies are continually challenged to evolve and adapt. Whether it is about entering new markets, acquiring know-how, optimizing business models, adjusting product portfolios, or planning a succession – strategic decisions are the key to sustainable corporate success.

Accordingly, we provide tailor-made solutions in M&A Advisory. Our goal is to comprehensively support our clients in complex transactions on both the sell-side and the buy-side, no matter how demanding or complex the situation may be.

We address Corporate Finance in an interdisciplinary manner: we regularly make decisive contributions in M&A transactions with teams from audit, tax and legal consulting, as well as management consulting – all from a single source. Our service areas range, in addition to classic M&A Advisory, from due diligence reviews and valuation issues to business plan development (including financial modeling). Our entire service portfolio is structured as follows:

• Comprehensive M&A advisory over the entire M&A lifecycle (from strategy to successful completion) on both the sell-side and the buy-side

• A specialty: special situations and Distressed M&A (time-critical transactions, e.g. in restructuring, pre-insolvency or insolvency situations, as well as complex corporate scenarios in cases of stakeholder or earnings crises)
• Carve-outs (divestitures of business units or parts of companies)
• Strategic alliances and partnerships
• Vendor assistance including data room management or digital management presentations
• Commercial due diligence (in selected industries)
• Market-oriented corporate valuations, and
• Advisory and structuring of corporate financings

Our focus is on the upper segment of the German mid-market whether corporate or owner-managed. Our clientele – as well as investors – also regularly include private equity firms.

Our transactions occur on both the national and international levels. Cross-border deals already account for approximately half of our managed M&A transactions and are continuously gaining in importance. Accordingly, we regularly leverage our international contacts as well as our global RSM network.