Company sale

You have spent years to build your company. Now the sale and realization of the value need to be orchestrated very carefully.

Services

Many competences, one objective: the optimal solution for your company sale.

Transactions have many facets. The experience we have accumulated across industries and transaction types enables us to provide advice optimally tailored to your specific situation and the respective market and competitive environment.

  • Management Buy-outs
  • Leveraged Buy-outs
  • Secondary Buy-outs
  • Management Buy-in
  • Trade Sale
  • Spin-off
  • Carve-out
  • Strategic Alliance
  • Joint Venture
  • Merger
  • Fairness Opinion
  • Company Valuation
  • Financing Concept

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Whatever drives you – together we find the right path!

Succession Planning

Ensuring the long-term continuation of the family business is the overriding goal. Yet which path holds the promise of success? Has succession been identified in the family? Is the family actively involved in the governance or management of the company? Would the management be ready to assume an entrepreneurial role? Or is external succession the best way to generate the appropriate payback for a life's work, to gain financial independence and secure the family’s long-term prosperity? The factors to be considered are complex and it is important to set the course early in order to define the most suitable long-term succession.

We recommend to engage in conversations with us early on, obviously in confidence and without obligation. There is no one and only right way, and together we will develop the tailor-made strategy that captures your requirements. We are also ready to provide confidential contacts to past clients as a point of reference.

Strategic Corporate Development

Continously reviewing one‘s portfolio of products and services is an essential part of every successful company strategy. New technologies, evolving competitive environments and changing customer needs as well as rising legal and regulatory requirements make it necessary to regularly review one's strategy and possibly initiate change processes. At such strategic junctures a carve-out or spin-off may be the most effective way to concentrate on core competencies or to place the output of research and development more effectively in the market.

Exit

Investments and buy-and-build strategies to form new players are being pursued with the exit scenario already in mind. Upon successful execution on such strategies, the time is right to place the newly developed companies on the market. At that stage, a number of strategies and buyer groups can be pursued, such as a trade sale, a secondary buy-out or, under certain circumstances, an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Our sound market knowledge and comprehensive network enable us to generate the best solution for every challenge that may present itself.

Our Promise

At every juncture you can expect total dedication and commitment from our team.

Partnership

Careful preparation and the clear structuring of the entire transaction process ensure that the sale of the company generates sustainable success for you. We possess intimate knowledge of the information needs of potential buyers and prepare you and your company optimally for every stage of the process.

We establish consensus with you regarding the goals to be achieved, create meaningful information documents, provide comprehensive support in identifying potential buyers globally and, last but not least ensure a high-quality approach of key decision-makers. Furthermore, you can rely on our competence and experience at any time during the subsequent contract negotiations, the drafting of the purchase agreement and the transfer of the company to the new shareholder.

Confidentiality

Success in the transaction process is chiefly built upon trust and discretion. You can totally rely on confidentiality. Performing the initial approaches with anonymous documents, we ensure that your operational business continues smoothly. This provides the necessary security and freedom to you and potentially interested parties to comprehensively yet discreetly explore the potential benefits of a transaction.

Confidentiality agreements (NDAs), which we are pleased to prepare for you individually, will help us to achieve this. The contents shall be designed in such a way that a balance is struck between the necessary discretion, and on the other hand the transaction security that you and your counterpart are seeking, while avoiding the creation of insurmountable hurdles from the outset.

Sustainability

We maintain close and long-term contacts with strategic as well as financial investors, industrial holding companies and family offices. Our advisors possess many years of M&A experience, think entrepreneurially and operate pragmatically. Attorneys and tax advisors who are oriented towards medium-sized businesses with many years of proven track record in transactions are among our close partners. Jointly we increase the probability of success for an effective transfer which ensures the sustainable development of your business in the future.

References

Sell-side transactions we recently completed:

February 2020
The shareholders of
GEMA Gebäudemanagement GmbH & Co. KG and Fink Gebäudetechnik GmbH & Co.KG have sold their shares to
Gimv
acted as exclusive M&A-Advisor to the sellers
May 2019
The shareholders of
VSI Sanierungs- und Baugesellschaft mbH and Innobit GmbH have sold their shares to
L. Possehl & Co. mbh
acted as exclusive M&A-Advisor to the sellers
March 2019
The shareholders of
AMT Schmid GmbH & Co. KG has sold his shares to
Odewald KMU Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen mbH
acted as exclusive M&A advisor to the company
February 2019
The shareholders of
Anedis Management GmbH and Anedis GmbH have sold their shares to
Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
acted as exclusive M&A advisor to the seller

What drives us every day…

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Dr. Schmitte and his project team provided us with the best possible support throughout the entire sale process. We always had the feeling that Taurus was the right partner at our side and that together we will achieve the best possible result. The result of the transaction, which is excellent in every respect, reflects the hard work we have jointly put in over the last few months and is fully in line with what we have built over many years.

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Alexander Hock and Andreas Rohleder
Managing Partners of H & R Industrierohrbau GmbH

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With Odewald KMU as our new partner, we can now jointly lead my father's company into the future. My special thanks also go to the Taurus advisory team, which put a great deal of industry expertise at work and reliably stood by my side in every phase of the sale process.

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Armin Schmid
AMT Schmid GmbH & Co. KG

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In every respect I am very pleased with the positive result of the transaction. Taurus ensured that the transaction has always been managed in a fair and transparent way, which resulted in a successful partnership with Quadriga Capital.

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Dietmar Haubenhofer
Managing Partner of VESCON GmbH

Contact

Your advisors are on eye level with you.

Berthold Hackl
Managing Director

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