M&A
Advisory

Transactions need a secure foundation. Crucial to both buyers and sellers: taking prompt, targeted action and having a direct line to decision makers.

Buyside Sellside Joint Ventures

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With over 200 international sell-side and buy-side transactions totalling in excess of 25 billion euros, goetzpartners is one of the most successful mid-market M&A firms. We leverage our sector expertise, network of contacts and many years of M&A experience into creating value for buy-side stakeholders. Alongside carving out the best possible position for buyers in the transaction process, goetzpartners services include efficient process execution, strategic valuation analysis, advice on financing, and support and coordination through the entire buy-side process.

Our expertise for buy-side transactions:

  • Strong market and industry expertise, including deep-dive market analysis
  • Identification of suitable target companies as per investment criteria
  • Development of a targeted communication and positioning strategy
  • Advice on carve-out transactions, also international transactions
  • Support with coordination of due diligence providers, with preparation of business plans and company valuations
  • Advice on acquisition and refinancing, including modeling

 

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE

GAIN THE
OPTIMUM

goetzpartners represents the interests of companies from all key industries all over the world. With over twenty years of experience, we think like entrepreneurs and have direct access to the decision makers that matter – all this and more forms the basis for our extraordinary success. goetzpartners has talented people with years of expertise in every element of the process – from bilateral talks to vendor-optimized auctioning. The outcome: we can provide our clients with definite advantage in sell-side transactions that serve to optimize value or ensure long-term security, even in challenging situations.

Our expertise for sell-side transactions:

  • Best possible tactical preparation and execution of the sales process
  • Prompt preparation of documents and coordination of vendor due diligence advisers
  • In-depth sector expertise ensures potential buyers are identified quickly
  • Wide range of investors can be approached owing to international presence and strong network of contacts
  • Optimization of financial and structural terms of sale
  • Extensive expertise in carve-outs, especially for complex, international structures
  • goetzpartners approaches potential financial backers though “lender education” and obtains term sheets

 

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE

PERFECT
MATCHMAKING

goetzpartners has many years of experience in preparing, initiating and executing mergers and Joint Ventures. We know how stakeholders need to design the strategy, business model and organization of their JV in order to derive maximum value. Our customers have an experienced partner at their side to navigate and resolve the challenging issues of governance, leadership and risk. Each joint venture has to be crafted such that the objectives of its stakeholders are met. This takes relevant technical expertise – but also familiarity with the sector in which the venture will be operating.

Our expertise for Joint Ventures:

  • Independent advisory for all types of planned Joint Ventures
  • Joint Ventures initiation and execution
  • Performance-optimized design of each Joint Ventures
  • Specialist knowledge in all key areas, including valuation, advice on corporate governance and structuring  

 

OUR SECTOR EXPERTISE

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With the holistic approach, goetzpartners succeeded in highlighting the excellent strategic fit for the transaction within a very short time. This enabled us to achieve a highly attractive result.

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Kai Roolf
Partner
Afinum Management GmbH

Client Case

goetzpartners advised Afinum, one of the leading medium-sized investment companies in the German-speaking market, as an M&A and commercial advisor. The investment company planned to divest the Garz & Fricke Group to SECO, an Italian embedded computing company. Thus, the objective was to outline a possible equity story, specifically independent growth options and synergy potentials with SECO.

Our Corporate Finance and Management Consulting teams worked closely together to quickly realise a commercial vendor due diligence and a business plan.

Thanks to the combined approach, goetzpartners was able to highlight the excellent strategic fit between the two companies in just two months, achieving an outstanding result and an attractive purchase price for its client.

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goetzpartners’ team has been pivotal to structure the operation and assist us in negotiating our partnership while following the right momentum. Throughout the process, goetzpartners has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the transaction and to the company’s interests.

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Frédéric Bedin
Chairman of the Executive Board
HOPSCOTCH Groupe

Latest Transactions

  • Mar 2022 CHE DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised Otto Group on the
    ACQUISITION
    of Medgate Holding & Better Doc
  • Mar 2022 DEU DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised NORD Holding on the
    ACQUISITION FINANCING
    for the acquisition of CONUTI GmbH
  • Feb 2022 AUT GBR
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised GoStudent GmbH on the
    ACQUISITION
    of Seneca Learning Ltd
  • Feb 2022 AUT ESP
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised GoStudent GmbH on the
    ACQUISITION
    of Tus Media, S.L.
  • Jan 2022 CHE NLD
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised the shareholders on the
    SALE
    of SwissQ Consulting AG to Xebia Nederland BV, a Waterland portfolio company
  • Jan 2022 DEU DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised the shareholder on the
    SALE
    of Thonet GmbH to Benner Beteiligungsgesellschaft
  • Jan 2022 GBR CHN
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised Pharmaron on its
    ACQUISITION
    of Aesica Pharmaceuticals from Recipharm
  • Dec 2021 DEU DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised GENUI on the
    ACQUISITION & FINANCING
    of the GHM Group
  • Dec 2021 DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised NFON AG on the
    REFINANCING
    of its liabilities to support future growth and development
  • Nov 2021 DEU DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised Mainova AG on the
    ACQUISITION
    of mobiheat GmbH
  • Nov 2021 DEU DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised d.i.i. Deutsche Invest Immobilien AG on raising
    GROWTH FINANCING
    to unlock growth potential and to consolidate market position
  • Oct 2021 DEU ITA
    € 180.000.000
    goetzpartners advised Afinum and the minority shareholders on the
    SALE
    of Garz & Fricke Group to SECO S.p.A
  • Sep 2021 DEU POL
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE on the
    SALE
    of its Polish Subsidiary SNP Poland Sp. z o.o. to All for One Group SE
  • Aug 2021 DEU DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised VHV on the
    ACQUISITION
    of InterEurope AG
  • Aug 2021 DEU
    (value not disclosed)
    goetzpartners advised Odewald KMU on the
    ACQUISITION
    of CTRL QS

goetzpartners advised Otto Group, the international retail and services group headquartered in Hamburg, on the acquisition of a majority stake in the Switzerland-based Medgate Holding.

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goetzpartners advised NORD Holding, a successful mid-cap private equity asset manager from Hannover, on the financing of the acquisition of CONUTI GmbH.

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goetzpartners advised GoStudent GmbH, Austrian EdTech unicorn headquartered in Vienna, on the acquisition of UK-based Seneca Learning and Spanish Tus Media Group.

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goetzpartners advised GoStudent GmbH, Austrian EdTech unicorn headquartered in Vienna, on the acquisition of UK-based Seneca Learning and Spanish Tus Media Group.

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goetzpartners advised the founding shareholders of SwissQ Consulting AG, an industry-shaping digital specialist, on the sale of their shares to Xebia Nederland BV, a globally leading agile IT consultancy and portfolio company of Waterland Private Equity Investments BV.

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goetzpartners advised the majority shareholder on the sale of its stake in Thonet GmbH, a leading German premium furniture manufacturer, to Benner Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.

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Pharmaron (Stock Code: 300759.SZ/3759.HK), a premier research and development service provider for the life science industry, announced today that it has acquired Aesica Pharmaceuticals Limited from Recipharm group.

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goetzpartners advised GENUI on the acquisition and financing of GHM Group, a Germany-based provider of specialist measurement and control technology, from VR Equitypartner and BayernLB Private Equity.

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goetzpartners successfully advised NFON AG, a publicly listed provider of voice-centric cloud-based business communications, on the refinancing of its liabilities and the set-up of a financing to drive future growth and corporate development including a facility for working capital and general corporate purposes.

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goetzpartners advised Mainova AG, a leading full-service supplier of electricity, gas, water and energy services headquartered in Frankfurt/ Main, on the acquisition of a majority stake of mobiheat GmbH, a specialist in mobile heating, cooling, and steam units in German-speaking countries.

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goetzpartners successfully advised d.i.i. Deutsche Invest Immobilien AG  – a privately-held German leading integrated alternative asset manager for residential real estate in refinancing its existing bilateral debt facilities and to raise growth financing. The successful refinancing enables the d.i.i. Group to unlock its growth potential for the near future and to consolidate its market position.

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goetzpartners was mandated as M&A and Commercial advisor by Afinum and the minority shareholders of Garz & Fricke Holding GmbH (“Garz & Fricke Group” or the “Company”), Germany-based producer and developer of hardware and software solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), to SECO S.p.A. ("SECO"), Italy-based reference player in the field of technological innovation, Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence solutions. The total consideration amounts to €180m and comprises a cash consideration of €165m and €15m newly issued SECO shares.

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goetzpartners advised SNP Schneider-Neureither & Partner SE ("SNP SE"), a publicly listed world-leading provider of software solutions for digital transformation processes and automated data migrations in the SAP environment, on the sale of its Polish subsidiary SNP Poland Sp. z o.o. ("SNP Poland") to All For One Group SE ("All For One"), a publicly listed leading German-based consulting and IT group.

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goetzpartners was mandated as exclusive M&A and Commercial advisor by leading German insurance group VHV Holding AG on the acquisition of InterEurope AG. Following the acquisition of Eucon in 2020, this is goetzpartners' second successfully executed transaction for VHV within the past twelve months.

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goetzpartners advised Odewald KMU on the acquisition of a majority stake in ctrl QS, a leading service provider supporting global corporations in the roll-out of digital solutions. Together with the founder, Mirja Silverman, who will continue to lead the company as managing partner, Odewald KMU intends to continue the successful growth strategy of the company.

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Christian Muthler

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