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FOCAL POINTS OF OUR OWNERSHIP CONSULTING

• Company succession – finding the fitting ownership solution for your succession

  Company succession is imminent and the classic solutions of sale or inheritance are out of the question? We support you in designing a custom-tailored ownership structure in the context of succession. To this end, we guide you through the multifaceted processes between family, succession, governance, and the legal structure surrounding this important moment in the biography of a company. In doing so, we always focus on the needs of the owners and stakeholders to find a tailor-made solution for the respective company with its own history, culture, and business model.

• Transformation – modeling the ownership structure fitting to the company’s culture

  Is the company biography already further advanced and is the next development step in the company’s history imminent? We help you to evaluate the current ownership structures and establish coherence between the existing corporate culture and the ownership structure. For a tailor-made ownership solution, we always focus on the needs of the owners and stakeholders in order to find a custom-fit solution for the respective company with its own history, culture, and business model.

• Foundation – a conscious ownership structure from the very beginning

  A company is to be founded or spun off and it should be ensured right from the start of the company’s biography that all parties involved have a shared understanding of ownership or an alternative ownership model should be implemented directly? We support you in consciously dealing with the ownership structure of the (spin-off) foundation and setting the course so that a later conversion of the company ownership into an alternative ownership model is also possible. In doing so, we always focus on the needs of the founders and stakeholders in order to find a custom-tailored solution.

• Financing – suitable for alternative ownership models

  Is a financing round imminent and should it be structured in line with the principles of steward-ownership? Or should the financing round continue to enable a later transformation to an alternative ownership structure? We help both start-ups and companies to find a suitable alternative financing structure that allows founders to continue to enjoy self-determination and independence in the long term. We show which alternative financing instruments can be used and help to find a suitable solution based on the needs of the company, its business model, and financing requirements.

• Governance – further developing of alternative ownership structures

  The transformation to an alternative ownership structure is complete and it is time to reflect on governance and develop it further? Even after a successful transformation to an alternative ownership structure, change remains the constant companion of a company. We help existing pioneers to keep their governance issues and ownership structure coherent with the company’s present and prepare it for the future.