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Paths to Founding

Successful
Business Takeover

Taking over an existing company offers enormous advantages but also involves financial risks. We audit balance sheets, evaluate the purchase price, and create the business plan for your secure company succession and KfW financing.

Free Initial Consultation * For the first hour. Non-binding.
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Secure Succession

Strategic Takeover

  • check_circle Detailed BWA & Balance Sheet Audit
  • check_circle Purchase Price Valuation (Earnings Value)
  • check_circle Financing via KfW Subsidies

Purchase Price & Financing

Buying an established company often requires high loan amounts. Whether you are taking over a family business or buying out an external company (MBI / MBO): Banks and the KfW examine the company value extremely critically.

Even if the company already has excellent BWAs and balance sheets, a well-founded business plan is absolutely necessary. It proves that you are able to amortize the demanded purchase price through future profits and safely repay the loans.

How We Support You

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    Current State Analysis & Plausibility Check

    Review of existing annual financial statements and evaluation of the seller's economic situation.

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    Financing Strategy

    Development of a financial plan including purchase price financing to secure KfW funding.

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    Succession Strategy (Business Plan)

    Elaboration of your future strategy: What are you taking over? What are you changing (e.g., digitalization, marketing)?

The Project Flow

Secure your business takeover through professional planning and strong arguments.

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1. Document Review

We review balance sheets, BWAs, and lease agreements of the business to be taken over and assess the feasibility.

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2. Business Plan Creation

Our team develops your future strategy and the financial plan covering purchase price financing and working capital.

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3. Bank & Funding Meetings

You receive the final document to convince your house bank or the KfW bank of the economic viability.

Frequently Asked Questions

Important answers regarding company succession.

Yes, a business takeover (company succession) is often treated like a new startup by banks and the state. There are special, low-interest KfW loans and funding programs available for this, provided a professional and viable business plan is submitted.
Even if the existing company already shows profits, balance sheets, and BWAs, banks want to see how YOU will continue to run the company in the future, what changes you plan, and whether the requested purchase price (the financing) is covered by future earnings.
The purchase price is usually based on the capitalized earnings method (EBIT multiples). As part of the business plan creation and financial planning, we check whether the price demanded by the seller is realistic and whether your investment will amortize over the years.
We generally need the last three annual financial statements (balance sheets), current business economic evaluations (BWAs), and existing lease or rental agreements of the business to be taken over.
Yes, the KfW offers special promotional loans (such as the KfW StartGeld or the ERP Universal Founder Loan) also for business takeovers, provided that the purchase price financing is economically justified by a well-founded business plan.

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