Our clients range from smaller companies from the German SME sector to internationally positioned, listed corporate groups. Whether services, production, finance, IT, trade or other sectors: Baker Tilly can provide the right experts for every industry – equipped with the necessary assertiveness to meet your high demands.

There are many reasons for corporate transactions or derivatives such as spin-offs, mergers or cooperations: From corporate strategy decisions, purely financially driven solutions to personal risk minimization, market consolidations and succession issues.

We always strive to find a solution that meets your wishes with regard to your company’s future on the one hand and creates a comfortable, risk-minimized situation for you on the other. At the same time, however, mergers & acquisitions activities also entail considerable risks – not only from a financial, but also from a tax and legal perspective. With Baker Tilly, you can be sure that you are always on the right track.

Our Baker Tilly Transactions Competence Centertherefore bundles the complete know-how for your corporate transaction in our interdisciplinary teams: from strategy and preparation to implementation and follow-up support – provided by specialized teams of business consultants, accountants, tax advisors and lawyers. Thanks to our interdisciplinary approach, you receive all the services you need for your corporate transaction from a single source: succession and transaction advice, tax advice and structuring, legal and corporate law advice, contract design and comprehensive support for the overall concept. The corporate finance team is responsible for the overall conceptual design and is therefore your primary contact throughout the entire process.
 

Our Corporate Finance services

For us, selling a company means more than just achieving the highest possible purchase price for your company. We want you to make the right decision.

Therefore, we always focus on comprehensive advice for succession or corporate strategy. We take an entrepreneurial approach and think outside the box.

A typical process for selling a company comprises the areas of target setting, preparation, marketing and negotiation.
 

The decision to buy a company can have various reasons: In addition to strategic considerations for the further development of one’s own company and purely material reasons, as is typically the case with financial investors, the decision can also involve considerations in connection with shaping one's own personal future (management buy-in or management buy-out).

There are certainly cases in which you already know your target exactly – based on your own research, the market environment or because a company is offered to you. However, our clients often do not yet know where they want to go. We can provide you with professional support even at this early stage. Following a portfolio and business analysis of your company, we work with you to develop a corporate development plan and derive an acquisition strategy with an acquisition profile. Based on this, we research potential targets and ensure that you get your desired company to the negotiating table.

An ideal type of a company acquisition process comprises the areas of target setting, identification, approach and negotiation. 

In addition to professionalism and the contribution of our experience, advice from Baker Tilly offers further decisive advantages:

1. Act instead of react: Your lead
The individual selection and approach of potential targets prevents sell-side processes and significantly reduces the likelihood of the potential seller initiating an auction process. This, as well as a process which has been professionally planned and managed right from the start, significantly strengthens your negotiating position.

2. Strategic fit
We make sure that you only have to deal with companies that perfectly fit your strategy. You are independent of companies that are offered to you, most of which are a poor fit and for which you have to compete against additional bidders. 

3. Deal flow
Through careful preliminary research, we provide you with a large number of suitable targets with a high probability of willingness to sell. As part of such research, we screen the entire market using existing Baker Tilly tools.

4. Negotiating function
When Baker Tilly approaches the targets’ owners, you can remain anonymous in the first step. This creates a professional, independent approach, free of reservations, resentment or fear of your company. 
 

Another focus of our activities is the sale of companies in crisis situations. Further information on this special segment of company sales is available at our Transactions Competence Center.

In addition to the typical sale and purchase of a company, we also support you in special situations:

  • Preparatory measures (“sprucing up the bride”, restructuring under company law, e.g., company split-ups)
  • Other transaction models
    • Spin-offs
    • Carve-outs
    • MBOs
    • MBIs
    • LBOs
  • Mergers
    • Mergers
    • Stock swap
    • Start-ups
    • Upstream/downstream mergers
    • Sidestep mergers
  • Cooperations
    • Joint ventures
    • Participations 
    • Project cooperation
    • Special-purpose vehicles
    • Buying syndicate
    • Development communities
  • Financing advice
    • Seed
    • Venture Capital
    • Restructuring of liabilities
    • Reduction of personal risks
    • Own LBO
    • Equity capital
    • Debt capital
    • Financing models
Dr. Andreas Fröhlich

Dr. Andreas Fröhlich

Partner, Head of Corporate Finance

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