Deal Advisory

We accompany you through every phase of your M&A project. We analyze opportunities, actively shape buy- and sell-side transactions, and provide clear guidance in the areas of finance, tax, law, IT, and sustainability. Together, we develop solutions, connect strategy with implementation, and guide you and your company safely through every transaction or transformation.
Rainer Miller
Partner
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We pave the way when you …

  • want to sell, acquire, or strategically expand your family business.
  • plan acquisitions or divestitures as a German or international company.
  • acquire or divest equity interests as a private equity or financial investor.
  • successfully structure transactions as a listed company.
  • structure equity interests or design succession solutions as an entrepreneurial family or family office.
  • realign companies or equity interests in the public sector.

Interdisciplinary Advisory for Your Transaction

We view transformation and transactions as opportunities that we shape together with you: from the initial idea to successful integration. With our interdisciplinary approach, we support you in Deal Advisory across all disciplines: Financial, Legal, Tax, IT, Sustainability, and Audit Advisory. This way, you receive guidance, security, and solutions from a single source.

Our Support in all Phases

Pre-Deal: We create transparency and strategic foresight. Whether M&A readiness, strategy development, deal sourcing, or structuring – we prepare you thoroughly, develop financial model and indicative valuations, create factbooks or vendor due diligence reports, and support with LoI, term sheets, or earn-out models.

Deal: In the critical phase, we consistently review and shape our approach. We conduct due diligence, prepare valuation reports, financial modeling, or pre-PPA analyses, support contract drafting and structuring with our Tax and Legal teams, and assist in securing financing as well as with antitrust issues.

Post-Deal: After closing, we look ahead. We support you with purchase price adjustments and allocations, post-merger integration, PPA and impairment tests, or corporate governance structures. We also tackle management equity participation, contract updates, or post-M&A litigation together with you.

Well-advised in every phase of the transaction

Our Services

M&A Advisory


  • M&A readiness and strategic positioning
  • Company sale
  • Company acquisition
  • Capital increase and growth financing
  • Distressed M&A

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Transaction Services


  • Exit readiness analyses
  • Financial factbook and vendor due diligence
  • Financial due diligence
  • IT due diligence
  • ESG due diligence
  • refinancing due diligence
  • Carve-out support
  • Purchase agreement advisory from a finance perspective

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Valuation Services


  • Advisory transaction valuations
  • Valuation reports according to IDW S1
  • Fairness opinion according to IDW S8
  • Purchase price allocations for post-merger integration
  • Valuation of intangible assets
  • Certificates of value
  • Impairment tests for accounting purposes

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Financial Modeling


  • Business plan modeling
  • Liquidity planning
  • Transaction modeling
  • Accounting modeling
  • Management reporting
  • Model audit/model review

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M&A Legal


  • Legal structuring
  • Legal due diligence
  • Preparation of NDA, LoI, and MoU
  • Legal factbook and vendor due diligence
  • Support in bidding process
  • SPA support
  • Cross-sector investment review (FDI)
  • Antitrust law

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M&A Tax


  • Tax exit readiness
  • Tax due diligence and tax factbooks
  • Tax-optimized transaction structure
  • Transaction documents and negotiations
  • Post-deal advisory

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Deals & Capital Markets


  • Deal accounting
  • IPO readiness
  • Enforcement advisory

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PMI & Transformation Services


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Our Success Story


363 
M&A and transaction projects advised by Rödl in the past year

31 
Number of countries in which the transactions we advised took place

69 %
Share of our clients who used at least two service areas in the course of a transaction