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Succession and Transfer

Handovers within the family

Family run companies in which the next generation already holds responsibility and the transfer of shares is due.

The occasion

Where a son or daughter already represents the company alongside the founding generation, the change of generation has begun. In these businesses the question is seldom whether, and usually how: gift or inheritance, timing, valuation, structuring of the shareholding.

The pending reform of the tax relief for business assets lends this question an urgency that many families recognise late. Anyone who transfers today does so under conditions that may no longer apply tomorrow. Every gift of shares also requires a robust business valuation.

Who works with this list

  • Tax advisory firms specialising in business succession
  • Business valuation experts
  • Notaries and corporate law firms
  • Family office advisers
  • Private banks and wealth managers

What each row contains

Company Legal form Street Postcode City Federal state Industry Register court Register number Incorporated Share capital Management Oldest member of management Year of birth Age Website Telephone Next generation Distance (km)

The report on this theme

The generational question in the German Mittelstand. How old the management of German companies is, where the handover is most pressing and in which businesses a next generation is already in place.

Further themes in this field.

Companies ahead of succession Companies whose management is reaching the age at which the handover to a next generation becomes a matter for decision. 285,782 companies Companies without successor management Companies in whose entire management and representation no younger generation is apparent that could carry the business forward. 195,125 companies Acquisition targets in consolidating industries Owner managed companies ahead of succession in those industries in which buyer groups have been acquiring systematically for years. 36,923 companies Property companies ahead of a handover Companies that hold and manage their own real estate and whose management faces the question of what is to become of the portfolio. 64,004 companies Founder led companies approaching retirement Long established limited liability companies managed by a single person who is approaching retirement. 120,279 companies Agricultural companies in eastern Germany Agricultural corporations in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony Anhalt and Thuringia whose management is approaching a change. 1,200 companies Dormant companies Companies in which nothing has changed for a long time, which no longer have a management or whose management is of advanced age. 130,079 companies