Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Taking companies & founders/entrepreneurs from A to B. Entrepreneur & Seasoned and experienced strategic thinker and M&A dealmaker with 20+ years experience and outstanding track record. Passionate to work with great founders and companies, supporting them to not only achieve their goals via smart and value-added dealmaking, but to supercharge / overachieve. Be audacious. Track record of several high profile cross-border M&A transactions for German Clients & entrepreneurs accross various (digital) verticals such as Marketplace (Doctari/Vitruvian; Sparwelt / RTL), Fintech (Sofort / Klarna), ed-tech (Career Partner / Apollo Inc.), Mobile (Qype / Yelp Inc), Software/SaaS (Sysgo / Thales) and tech-enabled services (Aperto / IBM Inc) as well as US (Tanger Inc. & Blackstone's US$ 491m joint acquisition of Charter Oaks). Overall 20++ years of M&A/dealmaking experience and 50+ successful transactions/closings. Professional career in Germany and the US (New York). Co-Founded Peters Associates AG (today Lincoln International) as well as CFP Midcap in 2007.
Mission to democratize and deliver value added M&A to Mittelstand & long tail / KMU, exceeding Entrepreneurs’ expectations. Mitttelstand / KMU is the backbone of the German Economy but „Nachfolge“ has been broken. We help every entrepreneur to successfully transfer his company and generate value that exceeds his expectations.
M&A, Growth Buy-Out/PE, Growth capital (primary/secondary) services; Board roles & investments for SELECT situations/Companies only. We choose what we believe in / where is fit with our values, our approach, our ambition - sample in sequence: Sofort/Klarna (for Reimann family), Sysgo/Thales, Tanger Inc./Blackstone Real Estate, Aperto/IBM, Career Partner/Apollo, Doctari/Vitruvian, IGEL/TA Associates, Gapfish/Cint (Nordic), Smartvet/Medivet (CVC-backed), Comatch/Malt and more…