Private Equity
Consulting

We do not state the obvious. We explore the target’s core to provide meaningful assessments for your successful investments.

Our Service Offering

goetzpartners Private Equity Consulting is the leading partner in the mid-cap private equity industry. Recognized at eye-level as a respected sparring-partner, we give our clients, such as investors and shareholders, confidence with respect to core questions regarding buy, hold and sell strategies. We accompany our clients throughout the entire investment life cycle – from the initial target approach, the client’s decision of the right investments with a fair valuation perspective, to identification and implementation of the company’s true value, as well as a value-maximizing exit.

Find the
Value

Today, it has become increasingly challenging to identify and acquire compelling targets with justified valuations. Besides the significant dry powder available through global buyout funds, the increased investment appetite of corporate M&A-driven growth agendas further intensifies competition for the most attractive assets. Industry experts from our vertically structured Private Equity team work together with clients to develop the right investment thesis to improve the quality of deal flow. 

Leveraging our longstanding industry expertise and broad origination network, we unveil robust and analytically informed insights on the industry ecosystem. Our structured market screenings allow for the exploration of industry-specific characteristics and developments and the identification of attractive segments that are worthwhile to invest in or qualify for our client’s buy-and-build strategy.

Through effective target identification, we prioritize valuable targets based on a pre-defined value logic to generate a comprehensive long list that is further narrowed down to an actionable short list. This enables us to develop a sharp point of view for prioritized targets as well as devise a plan on how to approach them.

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE  

Investigate
the value

We serve our clients during the acquisition phase by assessing the target’s full potential for the right deal decision-making. We take an unbiased view, follow a numbers-driven approach and act quickly and purposefully to give the client comfort about the core questions regarding to strategy, operations and IT.

Within each investment opportunity, we explore the uniqueness of the target’s business model and the ability to satisfy its customers’ needs; assess the market environment, competitive positioning and evolving industry dynamics; review the business plan as well as detect upside opportunities following a hypothesis-driven approach.

Understanding the business and the industry is the prerequisite of what we do, whether it be through challenging underlying target assumptions or through identifying value creation levers and a sound exit strategy. Our clients can draw on our long-standing and international expertise in the due diligence managing of projects that range from commercial due diligence, red flag due diligence, pre-due diligence, as well as IT, to cost or operational due diligence.

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE 

Maximize
the value

To provide an actionable post-acquisition agenda, it takes a good “equity story”, clear strategic roadmap, well defined levers and prompt execution. Together with our clients we define the best ways to create sustainable value out of the asset and achieve timely results and performance improvements, which need to be recognized within the profit and loss statement.

goetzpartners covers all major areas of value creation related to strategy, top- and bottom-line or financial structuring to maximize long-term profitability and free-cash flows. As part of the commercial due diligence, we identify value creation levers as well as first quick wins to ensure the prompt execution of actions after acquisition. We further specify, measurable initiatives, quantify value creation potentials as well as define responsibilities and a clear roadmap.

We provide end-to-end support from strategy definition to execution, and the close interaction between our value creation and dedicated due diligence teams ensure integrated full-service coverage and provide the required expertise throughout all investment phases.

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE 

Realize
the Value

We believe that a stringent exit strategy culminates in exceptional returns and prevents price misalignments – therefore investor anticipation, rigorous execution and comprehensive documentation of a forward-looking equity story are indispensable.

During the exit process, we serve our clients with commercial vendor due diligence or commercial factbooks and help to earn returns by defining the ideal exit strategy and equity story for a pre-defined buyer’s universe. We analyse industry trends, assess business cycles as well as current equity market conditions and run an exit sprint program to set the company on the right growth path. In order to illustrate the firm's profitable core, refine and strengthen the management's business plan and detect tangible growth opportunities, we work closely with owners and management.

goetzpartners is the ideal partner in the exit process for clients because we provide a crisp but exhaustive basis of communication for bidders as well as flexible support with answers for potential questions from buyers or lenders.

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE 

Our Value Proposition

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

With a leading track record as the trusted advisor of numerous strategic and financial investors, goetzpartners has proven to provide its clients with a compelling competitive advantage along the entire investment life cycle. Therefore, our private equity consulting team is often the first choice of private equity funds in front-running deals around the world and across multiple industries.

We deliver a unique deal intelligence at an early stage through extensive market sounding and close interactions with key stakeholders. By leveraging sound market insights and deep industry expertise, complemented by a wide network of experts, we provide answers to the most pressing due diligence questions early in the process. With our ability to identify the key drivers of a business model and to develop a tangible equity story, we help our clients maximize their portfolio value during the holding period and in the exit planning process.

Integrated full service

Our uniquely integrated full-service offering enables us to deliver a coordinated deal team with fast information flow, minimal yield loss and highly efficient alignment in the form of a convenient one-stop. This makes goetzpartners the preferred partner for all key issues and questions in buy-side and sell-side transactions for many financial and strategic investors:

  • Our Private Equity Consulting team works closely with our clients to answer their most pressing questions related to any commercial, operational or technical aspects. We support clients in gaining transparency on markets, competitive dynamics and business plan achievability; assessing a target’s full potential for smart deal decision-making; defining and executing truly value enhancing measures for portfolio companies and finally identifying the optimal exit strategy to achieve investors’ returns. 
  • Our M&A team offers clients a secure foundation for various types of transactions, such as buy- and sell-side situations, carve-outs or fundraisings providing valuable advice regarding efficient process execution, valuation matters, expert networks as well as support and coordination throughout the entire process. 
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  • Our Debt Advisory team provides objective advice on optimal debt structures, sources of funding and terms of financing, thereby helping to leverage the success of our clients’ transactions.  
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Exceptional Insights

goetzpartners understands the specific needs of private equity companies and delivers a setup which allows us to meet the high requirements optimally, quickly, pragmatically and as a respected eye-level sparring-partner.

Our setup includes:

  • A carefully selected team with extensive industrial and operational experience acquired over many years.
  • A vertical team structure with dedicated industry specialists and a large network of dedicated industry experts which provides reliable answers for critical and industry specific questions. Our private equity expertise mainly covers Industrials, Healthcare, TMT, Business Services and Consumer Goods. More about our sector expertise
  • Substantial methodological tools to generate in-depth insights, including a wide set of data bases, a variety of different survey methods, comprehensive bottom-up and top-down market modelling, sensible management questioning and many out-of-the-box thinking methodologies, to mention only a few.

Key facts and figures

Latest transactions Private Equity Consulting

goetzpartners advised Liberta Partners ("Liberta") with a Commercial Due Diligence on its investment in Negotiation Advisory Group ("NAG"), a leading consultancy for negotiation management based in Mannheim, Germany.

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goetzpartners advised Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP ("Arcus") with a Commercial Due Diligence on its investment in the EINHUNDERT group of companies ("EINHUNDERT"), a leading provider of solar-based tenant electricity solutions.

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goezpartners advised Management of Impact Acoustic AG and Verium AG with strategic advice and a Commercial Due Diligence as part of Verium's investment in Impact Acoustic. 

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goetzpartners advised Deutsche Invest Capital Solutions GmbH ("DI Capital Solutions") with a Commercial Due Diligence for the acquisition of Iconia Group AG ("Iconia"), a Swiss-based company that provides B2B customer engagement services for the global luxury industry.

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goetzpartners advised EMZ Partners ("EMZ") with a Commercial Due Diligence on its investment in H&Z Management Consulting (“H&Z”), a leading consultancy for global value chain management.

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goetzpartners advised Verdane with a Commercial Due Diligence of Muegge GmbH as part of its acquisition of HQ Equita.

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goetzpartners advised CONSTELLATION CAPITAL with a Commercial Due Diligence on the acquisition of Solar Wiebe GmbH & Co. KG ("Solar Wiebe"), a leading provider of roof-top photovoltaic (PV) planning and installation services attractively located in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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goetzpartners advised Afinum 9 with a Commercial Due Diligence on its investment in Hofstetter PCB AG (Hofstetter), the leading European provider of printed circuit boards plating and special final finishing services. 

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goetzpartners advised Hawle Beteiligungsgesellschaft m.b.H. ("Hawle") with a Commercial Due Diligence on the acquisition of Erhard Group ("Erhard"), a renowned valve manufacturer based in Heidenheim, Germany.

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goetzpartners advised Aspire Education Group ("Aspire Education"), a privately operated education group in the German-speaking region majority-owned by EMZ Partners ("EMZ"), with a Commercial Due Diligence on the acquisition of WEKA Group's education division ("WEKA"), a leading education platform comprising five media and continuing education companies with locations in Switzerland and Germany.

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Marking its initial platform investment in the plastic recycling space, Vidia Climate Fund I has acquired specialized plastic recycling company Best Plastic Management GmbH (BPM) through newly established PolymerCycle GmbH.

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goetzpartners advised Tikehau Capital ("Tikehau") with a Commercial Due Diligence on the acquisition of CReators of the Outside WorlD (“CROWD”), a pan-European leading provider of cycling infrastructure and sustainable street furniture based in the Netherlands.

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goetzpartners was mandated as exclusive M&A and Commercial Due Diligence advisor by leading global wheels manufacturer RONAL AG (“RONAL Group”) and its 100% subsidiary SanSwiss AG (“SanSwiss”) on the acquisition of Kudos Shower Products Limited (“Kudos” or “Kudos Group”), a UK-based manufacturer of shower enclosures and trays.

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goetzpartners was mandated by DI Capital Solutions as debt advisor on the acquisition of GLOBOGATE concept AG.

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goetzpartners advised Management of ifb SE with a Commercial Fact Book on the sale of ifb, an international finance and risk transformation and compliance consultancy, headquartered in Grünwald, Germany.

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