Signal themes on German companies

Succession and Transfer

A large share of the German Mittelstand is approaching a change of ownership. Anyone who advises on, finances or intends to acquire such a business needs to know where the transition is due and in what constellation.

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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 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

Risk and Continuity

Suppliers, lenders and insurers need to know where the continuity of a counterparty is in question. For others, the same point marks the beginning of their own work: in asset realisation, in acquisition or in protection.

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Companies in insolvency or dissolution Companies over whose assets insolvency proceedings have been opened or which are in dissolution, with the date of the proceedings. 113,933 companies Companies in liquidation Companies being wound up outside insolvency, with the persons responsible for the liquidation. 79,931 companies Companies without a deputy Companies represented by a single person alone, without power of attorney and without a second authorised signatory. 162,672 companies Addresses with a high density of companies Companies with a business address at which an unusually large number of other companies is registered. 61,374 companies

Growth and Capital

Capital transforms companies. A formation, a financing round, an acquisition by an investor or the integration into a group each set off decisions that call for outside expertise.

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Newly incorporated companies Companies in their first months, arranged by industry, region and capitalisation. 51,490 companies Owner managed start ups Young limited liability companies managed by a single person at the beginning of their entrepreneurial path. 6,537 companies Companies with financing rounds Young, growing companies whose capital structure suggests one or more financing rounds. 25,001 companies Companies owned by financial investors Companies held through an acquisition structure of financial investors, with the approximate date of acquisition. 1,068 companies Add on targets for investment platforms Owner managed companies ahead of succession in industries in which financial investors have already built platforms of their own. 235,710 companies Group companies and their parent companies Companies integrated into a group through a domination or profit transfer agreement, with the parent company and the date of the agreement. 7,212 companies Companies after a restructuring Companies involved in a merger, a division or a change of legal form. 45,618 companies Companies with capital in Deutsche Mark Companies whose share capital is still denominated in Deutsche Mark to this day. 7,282 companies Anniversaries in the coming year Companies that will look back on twenty five, fifty, seventy five or one hundred years of existence in the coming year. 16,425 companies

Leadership and People

Every company is led by people. Some run several businesses at once, some manage from abroad, some stand at the beginning of their entrepreneurial path and others at its height. For advisory, placement and wealth matters, they are the actual point of contact.

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Executives by industry, age and place of residence Managing directors and holders of registered power of attorney in an industry, refined by age and place of residence. 607,337 people Potential successors from the second tier of management Holders of registered power of attorney at the age of greatest entrepreneurial maturity, from the same industry as the companies seeking a successor. 125,554 people Entrepreneurs with several companies People who manage several companies at once, together with every company in which they hold a role. 72,360 people Entrepreneurs with their own holding company People who run their own holding company alongside an operating company. 85,427 people Management resident abroad People in the management of German companies whose place of residence is abroad, arranged by country. 60,737 people Companies after the change of generation Companies with a history of several decades whose management has already passed entirely into the hands of a young generation. 10,506 companies Shareholder managing directors in mid career Smaller companies managed by a single person who is at the stage of life in which retirement provision is built up systematically. 353,592 companies IT specialists with their own company Companies for IT consulting and software development behind which stands a single specialist working on a project basis. 33,412 companies

Market and Sales

Our supply relationship matrix links every industry to the industries that buy from it and supply to it. This yields lists that are scarcely obtainable by other means: the buyers of a product, the acquirers of a company, the customers of a supplier that has dropped out.

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Buyers of a product The companies that purchase the output of an industry as an input according to its supply relationships, with the rationale for each relationship. →Count for your selection Circle of potential acquirers for a company For a company of your choice, the obvious acquirers: competitors, customers and suppliers in the region, as well as investors in the same industry. →on request Customers of insolvent suppliers Companies that have recently entered insolvency proceedings, with the industries of their customers, who now need a new supplier. 7,827 companies Foreign companies in Germany Companies and branches of foreign enterprises in Germany, arranged by the jurisdiction of their legal form. 2,850 companies Companies with branch offices Companies that maintain further branches in addition to their registered office. 9,442 companies

Industry and Regulation

Where the legislator sets a deadline, demand arises on a specific date: when subsidies expire, when new information security obligations take effect, when healthcare provision is reorganised.

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Wind and biogas plants at the end of their feed in tariff Operating companies of wind, biogas and solar installations from the period whose statutory guaranteed tariff is now expiring. 2,551 companies Companies within the scope of the NIS 2 Directive Companies in those sectors that have been subject to stricter information security obligations since December 2025, with indications of their size. 56,229 companies Healthcare providers Medical care centres, hospitals, care facilities and practice companies, optionally limited to those in group structures or with a management ahead of a handover. 19,287 companies

Signals, arranged by field.

Succession and Transfer

Risk and Continuity

Growth and Capital

Leadership and People

Market and Sales

Industry and Regulation