Transaction Services

Transactions require clarity and reliability. With our Transaction Services, we guide you through complex review and decision-making processes. Whether carve-out and exit readiness analyses, financial due diligence or negotiation assistance: We create transparency, identifying opportunities and risks, and establish a solid foundation for your successful transaction.
Christoph Hinz
Partner
Graduate in Business Administration
Jochen Reis
Partner
Graduate in Business Administration
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Your trusted partner for successful transactions

Transaction processes are full of opportunities and challenges. We see ourselves as your reliable trusted partner: attentive, focused and with a clear view of the goal. We listen, understand your requirements and create orientation where processes seem complex or unclear. Our experts support you along the entire process – before, during and after the deal – in structural transformations, divestments, acquisitions, and refinancing.

We operate in an interdisciplinary manner, combining financial, tax, legal and IT know-how, jointly developing solutions that are feasible and sustainable. We don’t walk the path for you, but with you. We are driven by our values: pioneering in thinking, eager for success in action and working alongside you as a partner. This creates trust that makes your transactions successful and future-proof.

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Exit Readiness Analyses

Before you decide on a transaction, we analyze your starting position. As part of an exit readiness analysis, we identify potentials, weaknesses and optimization possibilities. In this way, we create transparency, increase the attractiveness of your company for investors and lay the foundation for successful implementation.

Our focus areas

  • Assessing transaction capability
  • Financial and operational analysis
  • Identifying optimization potentials
  • Preparing company documents for the sale

Sell-Side Financial Due Diligence

We support sellers as a reliable trusted partner through the sales process. In a vendor due diligence or a financial factbook, we analyze financial risks and opportunities and prepare structured information for potential buyers. In this way, we create transparency, strengthen investor confidence, increase transaction security and improve your negotiating position to maximize the purchase price.

Our focus areas

  • Preparing a vendor due diligence or a financial factbook
  • Compiling a comprehensive financial data package
  • Analyzing financial and performance indicators
  • Identifying opportunities and risks
  • Supporting the seller during the buyer due diligence and negotiation assistance

Buy-Side Financial Due Diligence

When you acquire a company, we support you as a reliable trusted partner with meaningful analyses of the target company. We examine the essential financial aspects and identify opportunities and risks, create data packages, a structured report and provide you with a sound basis to help you decide on your investment process. As an alternative, we conduct a compact red flag due diligence with a focus on identifying critical factors.

Our focus areas

  • Executing a buy-side financial (red flag) due diligence
  • Compiling a structured financial data package
  • Analyzing financial and performance indicators
  • Identifying opportunities, risks and red flags
  • Supporting price negotiations and decision-making

Refinancing Due Diligence

Together, we discuss the financing opportunities and risks of your company and identify opportunities for optimization. We support you throughout the refinancing process, develop meaningful information and reports for potential investors and support you in financing negotiations. In this way, we ensure that you can refinance your company safely, efficiently and on the best terms.

Our focus areas

  • Preparing a refinancing due diligence or a refinancing factbook
  • Analyzing cash flow and liquidity
  • Risk assessment and scenario analyses
  • Preparing documents for investors
  • Supporting contract negotiations

Carve-Out Support

Carve-outs require precise planning and coordination. We support you in separating business units, creating financial analyses and carve-out financials, supporting structural and process adjustments and thus ensuring a smooth implementation of the carve-out.

Our focus areas

  • Financial separation of units
  • Developing carve-out financials
  • Developing a stand-alone cost structure
  • Process and structure optimization
  • Supporting buy- and sell-side processes

Purchase Agreement Advice from a Finance Perspective

We support you in designing and negotiating the financial aspects of the purchase agreement. Based on a clear analysis of financial key figures and risk positions, we ensure that contractual regulations are precise, enforceable and aligned with the economic success of the transaction.

Our focus areas

  • Analyzing financial contract clauses
  • Evaluating price and earn-out structures
  • Risk identification and hedging
  • Supporting negotiations
  • Creating financial exposés for contracts