The range of services offered by venture advice essentially comprises:
- Corporate Advisory (corporate financing consulting, creation or improvement of transaction capability)
- Company acquisition (also as MBO / MBI)
- Company sale
- Company valuation / fairness opinion
- Financing structuring, e.g. for the establishment/expansion of new businesses and companies
- Optimization of corporate financing, creation and securing of liquidity, integration of public funds
Details on the individual service areas on the following pages:
The range of services offered by venture advice essentially comprises:
- Corporate Advisory (corporate financing consulting, creation or improvement of transaction capability)
- Company acquisition (also as MBO / MBI)
- Company sale
- Company valuation / fairness opinion
- Financing structuring, e.g. for the establishment/expansion of new businesses and companies
- Optimization of corporate financing, creation and securing of liquidity, integration of public funds
Details on the individual service areas on the following pages:
Medium-sized companies are often faced with the strategic decision of how to secure and shape the future of the company should be secured and shaped.
Typical challenges are
- Decisions to sell the company, parts of it or significant assets
- Decisions to acquire a company, parts of a company or significant assets
- Securing sustainable corporate growth by means of equity capital and / or structured debt financing
- Entering into cooperations or joint ventures with the associated financing requirements
- Securing sustainable corporate liquidity
- The greatest challenge: the combination of the above-mentioned fields of action.
- venture advice develops a suitable and sustainable strategy together with its clients and implements it!
Reasons for the Sale of shares or a company
There are several occasions for a partial/company sale
- Admission of new shareholders
- Sale of minorities
- Succession solutions
- Concentration on core business areas / spin-off
- Sale of group units
- Realization of exit
- Restructuring / impending insolvency
- Replacement of financiers (e.g. due to a bank pole agreement or collateral pool agreement, impending collateral strengthening
Reasons for buying a company
....for entrepreneurs
- GrowthImprovement of competitive positionS
- trengthening of core competencies
- Access to know-how, markets, suppliers or customers
- DiversificationValue enhancement - add-on acquisitions
- Realization of economies of scale
- Strengthening solvency, e.g. vis-à-vis customers
- Entrepreneurial participation as portfolio addition (asset allocation)
- Life planning and design
Financial Consulting
Companies use various sources of financing.
Typical short-term financing sources are
- Bank deposits
- Working capital loans
- Receivables & payables
But increasingly also
- government support such as short-time working allowances or tax deferrals
- Innovation and investment grants
Typical long-term sources of financing are
- Shareholder and bank loans
- Capital reserves
- Leasing
- Guarantees and sureties
- Mezzaine financing
We have the experience and knowledge to structure and arrange feasible and suitable financings, up to 40 million EUR.
Special M&A
In special situations, such as restructuring or insolvency proceedings, creditors require a quick solution, e.g. through an asset or share sale.Other triggers of such projects with a tight schedule are the replacement of financiers (e.g. due to a bank pole agreement or collateral pool agreement, impending collateral strengthening).
Company valuation
A company valuation is usually carried out on an occasion-related basis.
Occasions can be
- Determination of value for creditors from the provision of security
- In connection with family business succession (inherited shares)
- For the assessment of takeover/share purchase offers
- Assessment of purchase or takeover opportunities
- In the context of auditing
- In the course of the purchase of shares from or sale of shares to co-partners
- Obtaining public guarantees
- Valuation of collateral and pool agreements with banks.
The accepted valuation methods differ depending on the occasion.
Interim-Management
In individual, special cases, the shareholders of venture advice have taken on the tasks of a commercial managing director on a temporary basis.
Exemplary:
- For the founding and start-up phase of a new business or company.
- To bridge a crisis situation, as a representative of the shareholders' interests.
- After acquisitions
- In preparation for the sale of a company.
- Introduction of short-, medium- or long-term liquidity management and planning
Being an independent, owner-managed corporation, venture advice has a strong commitment in high customer satisfaction and a pledge for reliability. Our company has a broad experience, spanning various business domains.
