Succession and acquisition
Handover and acquisition, prepared commercially before anyone negotiates.
We work with owners who hand over their company and with buyers who take one over. We prepare the commercial side, work at the level where the decision is made, and stay on board for execution, through to integration after the acquisition.
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Handover from the owner's side
What the company carries today, before a buyer asks: contribution margin by customer segment, dependence on the owner, growth options for the successor. This is the basis for talks with family, employees and prospective buyers. More on business model consulting.
Acquisition from the buyer's side
The commercial review of the target company: customers, prices, competition, the assumptions in the business plan. Plus the question of what has to happen in the first months after the purchase. We work with individuals, founding teams and companies that buy.
Partner entry and integration
When a partner comes in or an acquisition is integrated, we clarify roles, incentives and the plan for the time right after. Where it is required, we take on line responsibility, see interim management.
Questions before the first conversation
Who do you work for on succession and acquisition?
For owners of mid-sized and family-owned companies who want to hand over, and for buyers: successors, founding teams and companies that acquire. We work across industries.
Do you provide legal and tax advice?
No. Legal and tax questions belong to a handover, but they sit with specialists. Where a mandate requires them, we work with a team of tax, legal and audit professionals built up over the years, put together for each mandate and steered by us for its whole duration.
How does a mandate begin?
With a first conversation of 30 minutes, free and without obligation. Then a diagnosis at a fixed fee, ending in a basis for decision. The client can step out after every stage.
In which languages?
German, English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Mandate
Takeover and operation of a bookshop with a café in Vienna, 2026
Coaching of the buyer side in the takeover of an existing business. The takeover succeeded, café and bookshop are in operation. The mandate is anonymised.
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Schedule a Consultation
30 minutes, free and without obligation. We use it to understand the starting point and to say openly whether we are the right partners.