Steinbeis Consulting Center Acquisition & Succession

• Planning and management of the succession process
• Development of succession strategies
• Company analyses, company valuations
• Identification and approach of suitable succession candidates or companies
• Financing advice
• Investor search
• Preparation of business plans / financial plans
• Strategy consulting
• Growth, marketing and sales consulting
• Support in accessing funding programmes
• Support during negotiations

• Succession planning and equity management
• Start-up consultancy with a view to acquiring a business
• Matching financial investors with equity capital

• We assist entrepreneurs in their search for a suitable succession plan and coordinate the implementation of that plan.
• We assist individuals in their search for a suitable business to acquire or invest in.
• We support successors as they take their first steps as entrepreneurs.
• We plan the financial retirement of entrepreneurs who are planning to sell their business.
• Where necessary, we seek out financial investors and equity capital (this is particularly relevant where the intended successor faces financing difficulties).

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

• Promoting a strong future economy: sow today, reap tomorrow (Transfer 1/2025)
  Steinbeis experts Ursula Schulz and Jana Tisch interview economic development practitioners Susanne Orlowski, Alexander Stengelin and Henriette Stanley
• Mittelstand: The Next Generation (Transfer 2/2023)
  A team of Steinbeis experts increasingly solves succession issues by pulling together teams from inside and outside companies
  
  In this article, Prof. Edmund Haupenthal and Tino Schulz show that business succession in SMEs is increasingly being organized through teams of internal and external candidates rather than individual successors. They outline key challenges, including candidate identification and financing, and highlight success factors such as complementary skills, strategic business development, transparent transactions, and ongoing advisory support to ensure sustainable ownership transitions and long-term competitiveness.