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Succession and Transfer

Acquisition targets in consolidating industries

Owner managed companies ahead of succession in those industries in which buyer groups have been acquiring systematically for years.

The occasion

Tax advisory, care services, dentistry, insurance brokerage, IT system houses and the skilled trades are being reorganised. Groups backed by private equity continuously acquire smaller firms in these markets and combine them into larger units.

For these buyers, a single acquisition represents revenue in the millions. Early, targeted contact with owners approaching a handover is therefore of exceptional value to them.

Who works with this list

  • Consolidation platforms and their shareholders
  • Private equity investors with a buy and build strategy
  • Specialised M&A advisers
  • Industry associations with succession marketplaces

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 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 Handovers within the family Family run companies in which the next generation already holds responsibility and the transfer of shares is due. 36,731 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 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