From the company to company value.

We value your company and run the sale: advisory at your side or entirely in our hands, from teaser via data room to signature. Confidential, alongside the running business.

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Six steps from the first document to closing. We run them end to end or stand beside you as advisors. The day-to-day business keeps running meanwhile.

Starting point

When the sale is coming up.

Today
What changes
You do not know what your company is worth and do not want to start a process to find out.
A valuation as an indication of where things can go.
There are interested parties, but no structured process.
A process with teaser, memorandum, data room and negotiating position.
Buyers ask for documents that do not exist in that form.
Teaser, information memorandum and data room the way an acquirer expects them.
The sale is meant to run without employees, customers and suppliers learning of it early.
A confidential process alongside the day-to-day business, with a non-disclosure agreement before the first conversation.

Three ways

Value. Advise. Execute.

Valuation
A company valuation as an indication of where things can go, before you decide on a sale. Without obligation, with your figures.
Advisory at your side
You run the sale process, we stand beside you: documents, assessment of interested parties, negotiating position. You stay at the wheel.
Entirely in our hands
We run the process: prepare teaser and information memorandum, build the data room, approach buyers and brokers, support the review, negotiate to signature. Legal and tax questions are handled by your lawyers and tax advisors; on request we name specialised firms.

From the buyer’s side

What we have examined ourselves.

Frederic von Borries has reviewed and supported transactions on the buyer’s side. Summarised, without individual cases: what was examined, at what size, in which sectors.

Scope
From screening teasers and information memoranda, through due diligence, to the purchase agreement and integration into a group.
Size
Companies with roughly €12 million to €250 million in annual revenue.
Sectors
Luxury goods and fashion, household appliances, pet food, footwear, jewellery and accessories, sustainable products, consumer electronics.
Models
B2B distribution, online shops for consumers, trading companies with in-house production.
Countries
Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Slovakia.

We do not name individual transactions, not even anonymised. From this experience we know what an acquirer looks for first in the data room.

The process

Six steps to closing.

Teaser and information memorandum

An anonymous short profile for the first approach. Then the memorandum with business model, figures and outlook, only for interested parties who have signed a non-disclosure agreement.

Data room

Contracts, figures, staff, legal and tax matters structured in one place. Each interested party sees only what is released for its stage.

Outreach to buyers and brokers

A long list of possible acquirers and, from it, a shortlist: strategic buyers, investors and brokers who know suitable buyers. The approach stays anonymous until the non-disclosure agreement is in place.

Due diligence

Interested parties submit an indicative offer, then review the data room. We prepare the answers before the questions arrive and keep the process moving.

Purchase agreement

Negotiation of price, structure and warranties. Your lawyers draft the contract, your tax advisors settle the tax questions; on request we name specialised firms. We lead the negotiation with you.

Sale

Signing and closing, then the handover. Employees, customers and suppliers learn of it as late as the law allows.

Services

What we take on in the sale.

Company valuation
an indication of where things can go
Teaser and information memorandum
the documents an acquirer expects
Data room
set-up, structure, releases
Buyers and brokers
selection and outreach, long list and short list
Due diligence
preparation and support of the review
Purchase agreement and closing
negotiation to signature, contract and tax through your advisors

If the company is not sale-ready yet, the work begins before that: with business development. We treat enquiries confidentially; on request we sign a non-disclosure agreement before the first conversation.

One sentence is enough to start. We sign the non-disclosure agreement beforehand if you wish.

Enquire confidentially