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Corporate finance and value creation for the German market

Alehar works with German companies, Mittelstand owners and investors across the full corporate finance cycle: building enterprise value, running the finance function day to day, and preparing for succession, financing, and M&A.

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Market context

How we work with companies in Germany

A generation of Mittelstand owners is working through succession, and many of their companies will change hands outside the family for the first time. That world runs on discretion, careful evidence and long relationships, above all with the Hausbank that has financed the business for decades. It also has hard formal edges: the sale of GmbH shares must be notarised, and buyers expect the documentation to be in order long before the notary appointment. We work with owners and management across the full cycle: professionalising the finance function, preparing financing or succession, and running the sale with the discretion German owners expect.

When clients come to us

  • 01You're planning a succession or ownership transfer and want the company transaction-ready.
  • 02You want a stronger finance function (reporting, forecasting and KPIs) without building a full team.
  • 03You're raising equity or debt, and the model and data room need to hold up.
  • 04You're acquiring, selling, or building enterprise value ahead of a future exit.

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Common questions

Both. We help build enterprise value and run the finance function day to day (reporting, forecasting, KPIs, investor relations), and we lead the financing, sale or acquisition when the moment comes.
Start earlier than feels necessary, and start with the numbers. Most succession routes, whether a family handover, a management buyout, or a sale to a strategic or an investor, become easier when the company's reporting, contracts and dependencies are in order well before anyone outside sees them. We work with owners to get the company transaction-ready, compare the realistic routes on real numbers, and then run the chosen process with the discretion these situations demand. Nothing goes to market before you decide it should.
Keep the Hausbank relationship; it is worth a lot. But a single relationship is not a market view. Growth financing, acquisition debt or a refinancing often gets better terms when your house bank knows other banks and debt funds are looking too, and larger financings increasingly involve lenders beyond the traditional banking relationship. We prepare the model and financing materials, create that comparison quietly, and let you negotiate from an informed position without damaging the relationship you have built.
In Germany, the transfer of GmbH shares must be notarised, so a sale ends in a formal, carefully sequenced signing rather than a simple exchange of contracts. In practice that raises the bar earlier in the process: buyers and their advisors expect the documentation, shareholder resolutions and corporate records to be clean well before the notary appointment. We are not lawyers and do not replace yours. We run the transaction process and the preparation so the legal steps land on schedule.
Yes. We work with German owners and management in German, and the German pages of this site reflect that. Cross-border processes usually run in both languages: German with you and your local advisors, English with international buyers, investors or lenders, and we manage that translation of materials and expectations as part of the process.
A short note on what you're trying to do, your latest accounts, a recent forecast or model if you have one, any investor or buyer materials, and the deadline or decision you're working toward.

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