If we have found someone to sell or buy your business, conducted the negotiations and drawn up the sale contracts, and if the purchase price has – finally – arrived, we’re still along way from the goal.

After a business has been sold, the problems do not stop; they just change. There have been numerous cases where the purchase price, once gained through acute negotiations, has vanished again after a few years, due to bad asset management.

Why? Because up till now the former entrepreneur has only been interested in entrepreneurial activities, not asset management; because, in turn, his advisor is not trained to assist in the deal once the purchase price has been paid.

Our Family Office consultants therefore assist in a sale from the beginning, during and after the sale transaction itself, and up to the new distribution of the proceeds. If no investments can be found to bring a return on the proceeds at least equal in profitability to the return generated earlier by the business, we often advise the client not to sell.

The particular strengths of our consultancy and family-office concept, as supported by our three companies, are also to be found in controlling newly acquired liquid assets. This is something on which we place quite particular value.

Our experience in the supervisory management of major family funds is of considerable benefit to us here. We can also offer you an exchange of information with other major important families about the structures of their asset management, should you so wish. In this sense we regard ourselves as intermediaries between asset management and supervision of liquid and non-liquid family funds.

Our good contacts, both national and international, with trade and industry, with asset managers and supervisory boards may perhaps lead you, in no time at all, to buy into another company….