Fully integrated M&A Consulting in Germany with legal, tax, audit, corporate finance - that's what 3Q's Consulting Services stand for
3Q|Law sees itself as part of a holistic approach to solving your problems and tasks by particularly experienced consultants who have usually gained years of experience in large international law firms, auditing and tax consulting firms, which they were then able to deepen over many more years with consulting projects and experience in medium-sized businesses. In addition, we work with the 3Q approach in a team of tax advisors, auditors, M&A advisors and corporate finance experts who, depending on the task at hand, work across disciplines and establish the necessary cross-links between the individual disciplines. Thus, as 3Q, we deliver fully integrated, holistic solutions instead of isolated solutions.
Legal Note: The team of 3Q, which is put together for the individual project and for your specific needs, is not a law firm or partnership in the legal sense, but a cooperation of independent legal entities, which are usually commissioned individually by you. This has, among other things, the great advantage that you really only have those consultants "on board" that you need for the specific task and who are best qualified "at partner level" for this task.
German Legal advice, German M&A and succession consulting for owner-managed medium-sized businesses.
German Business Lawyer and M&A Specialist | Corporate Law | Inheritance Law | Succession | Real Estate in Germany
Self-employed lawyer in Hamburg with a focus on advising medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs as well as wealthy private individuals
Due to Dr. Jaques' national and international experience in the areas of mergers & acquisitions ("M&A"), German corporate law/corporate disputes and corporate succession including inheritance law, gained in more than 24 years, clients benefit from the clear, goal-oriented focus of advice on the client's benefit. This means not only an orientation towards lateral thinking across disciplinary boundaries and an excellent quality of advice that creates and realizes value, but also the safeguarding of such value against risks, including the reduction of liability for the client.
Prof. Dr. Thost has been advising national and international medium-sized companies, shareholders as well as managing directors and board members on all corporate and commercial law issues for more than 20 years. This includes, in particular, the drafting of contracts under company law and management service agreements as well as the area of management liability. His practice also focuses on mergers & acquisitions ("M&A"), foundation law and corporate foundations, as well as insolvency law.
Whether it is a change of shareholders, a succession plan, a strategic alliance, a spin-off or a corporate crisis - such a transaction is a highly complex process in any situation, which requires not only legal and tax advice, even for smaller transactions, but also, and in particular, the advice of a corporate finance or M&A expert.
Corporate Finance Nord advises you, for example, in close coordination with legal and tax advisors, comprehensively throughout the entire sale or purchase process, e.g. with regard to
- Preparation of a company sale,
- Business Valuation,
- Preparation of an information memorandum or sales exposé,
- Organization of a bidding process and
- leading the negotiation of the economic conditions
- Transaction support and management until notarization
The successful completion of a transaction also requires that the necessary equity and debt capital are available to the buyer when the sale is notarized. However, the financing of such an M&A transaction typically proceeds differently than other financings, as key parameters can still change in the course of due diligence and negotiations.
When is the right time for the buyer to specifically involve its financing partners in the transaction? What is the right financing structure for the buyer? Are there public funding opportunities, who are the right financing partners? With the project experience of Corporate Finance Nord, a professional and experienced partner from 3Q is available to advise you as an acquirer on these important questions and ensure that you receive the appropriate financing.
It is also of considerable importance for the seller, already at an early stage of the sales process, that the financing efforts of the buyer lead to success with the highest possible degree of certainty. With Corporate Finance Nord's extensive practical knowledge of financing issues arising from and in connection with an M&A transaction, we can estimate the financing probability in dialogue with the acquirer and offer you, as the seller, maximum transaction security at this point as well.
Dirk Sachse is a qualified banker. After completing his studies in 1998, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in Düsseldorf and Hamburg, where he advised on turnaround and restructuring cases.
In the period 2000-2003 and 2006-2008, Mr. Sachse executed mid-market transactions with private equity firms (Granville Baird Capital Partners, Frankfurt Capital Partners, founding member Auctus). In between, he led a medium-sized group of companies as CFO and handled various corporate M&A projects.
Since 2017 he is owner and managing director of CFN Corporate Finance Nord GmbH. The consulting focus is on the full implementation and management of purchase and sale projects with a focus on succession solutions and special situations. In addition to his comprehensive process expertise, Mr. Sachse has a very extensive Germany-wide network of MBI managers as well as private equity and family office investors. Further areas of consulting are the execution of company valuations and financing consulting for medium-sized companies.
Mr. Sachse has been a certified business valuer (CVA) since August 2016.
Read more at cf-nord.de.
Heratax is at your disposal not only in the areas of accounting, annual financial statements and tax optimization in Hamburg and Germany, but also in tax structuring consulting:
- Tax consulting in Hamburg from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to large corporations
- Tax consulting in Hamburg for foreign and internationally operating companies
- Tax advice on German corporate acquisitions, transformations and restructurings (M&A) in Germany
- Company formations, start-ups, management buy-outs (MBO) in Germany
- Company valuations in Germany
- Company succession in Germany
- Since 2009 partner in HERATAX Heiss Lindloff Radenovic Tax Advisors Partnership and incorporation of his individual practice into HERATAX Tax Advisors Partnership
- 2008-2009 Self-employed tax consultant in Hamburg
- 2008 Takeover of the tax consulting firm Heidi Flügge
- 2000-2007 Head of the tax department of Otto GmbH & Co. KG
- 2000 Appointment as tax consultant
- 1996-2000 Employee at PricewaterhouseCoopers (formerly PwC Deutsche Revision AG) in the tax department Hamburg as well as in the audit department of Coopers & Lybrand in New York
- 1991-1996 Studies of Business Administration at the University of Hamburg, at the same time working in the tax department of C&L Deutsche Revision AG
- 1989-1991 Apprenticeship as industrial clerk at Philips Medizin Systeme GmbH
Read more at heratax.de.
Die I-ADVISE AG ist eine unabhängige Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, die sich auf Transaktionsberatung und Unternehmensbewertungen spezialisiert hat. Wesentliche Merkmale des Beratungsansatzes der I-ADVISE AG sind eine überdurchschnittlich seniore Teamstruktur sowie eine garantierte Unabhängigkeit und Exklusivität. Zu den Mandanten gehören sowohl große als auch mittelständische international agierende Unternehmen, Private Equity-Gesellschaften und deren Portfoliounternehmen sowie „Family Offices“.
The main focus of I-ADVISE in the area of transaction consulting is the execution of financial and tax due diligence projects for potential buyers, the support of sales processes (vendor assistance, vendor due diligence) as well as the support of portfolio companies in the aftermath of a transaction (post-acquisition support).
In the field of company valuation, I-ADVISE AG acts as a neutral expert, consultant, auditor or arbitrator in the context of various occasions such as acquisitions, mergers, domination and profit transfer agreements, squeeze-outs, purchase price allocation or impairment tests and prepares fairness opinions.
Frank Berg has more than twenty years of experience primarily in advising clients on transactions from the initiation to the completion of a company acquisition or sale, the implementation of refinancing projects and the auditing of annual and consolidated financial statements in accordance with HGB, IFRS and US-GAAP.
Mr. Berg has assisted German and foreign listed as well as family-owned large corporations, mid-sized companies in various industries, internationally operating private equity houses as well as "mid cap" and "small cap" financial investors from the German-speaking region in M&A transactions.
Read more at i-advise.de.
Michael Ferdinand
Partner | Certified Public Accountant | Tax Consultant | Consultant for International Tax Law | Dipl. -Kaufmann
Michael Ferdinand has been assisting clients in national and international tax law for more than 20 years, with a focus on corporate and real estate tax law, restructuring and transaction advice as well as accounting and auditing of annual and consolidated financial statements according to HGB and IFRS.
Mr. Ferdinand's clients often include medium-sized, owner-managed companies and corporations of various sizes and industries.
Within the scope of tax transaction consulting, Mr. Ferdinand accompanies both acquisition and sale processes in all phases of an M&A transaction. In addition to the analysis of takeover targets, the activities of tax acquisition consulting also include the conceptual design of tax-optimized acquisition structures, the execution of tax due diligence as well as support in the consideration of identified tax risks in the final acquisition structure and the company purchase agreements up to post-merger integration.
Read more at i-advise.de.
Buhler Duggal & Henry LLP is a business law firm with offices in New York, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Buhler Duggal & Henry advises companies and their owners, as well as private equity funds, hedge funds and venture capitalists, on all aspects of commercial and transactional law.
As a partner of 3Q Law, Buhler Duggal & Henry regularly serves as outside legal counsel to both development-stage and mid-market companies, advising on issues affecting the entire life cycle of a business. Buhler Duggal & Henry also has extensive experience advising on the issuance and sale of public and private securities and regularly advises buyers and sellers on mergers and acquisitions.
You will benefit from the cooperation between 3Q Law and Buhler Duggal & Henry both in the case of activities in the USA and vice versa as a US client when acting in Germany.
Raoul Duggal practices corporate law and focuses on the representation of international and domestic small and medium-sized companies and investors. He has extensive experience advising clients on a broad range of domestic and international M&A transactions, including restructurings, cross-border transactions and re-financings. He frequently advises national and international companies and investors on venture capital and private equity investments and their exit transactions. Raoul Duggal also advises listed companies and national and international IPOs.
Raoul Duggal represents a wide range of U.S. and European small and medium-sized businesses and regularly advises them as their outside general counsel in the United States. With the help of its proven network of experts in tax, intellectual property, employment, real estate and litigation, Raoul's clients can rely on legal services that cover the full range of their activities in the United States. With an approach based on practical and economical solutions, Raoul helps domestic and foreign clients conduct and effectively manage their business in the United States.
Prior to co-founding Buhler Duggal & Henry LLP, Raoul practiced in the New York and London offices of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C. and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Germany.
Raoul passed his First State Law Examination with distinction and received his doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) summa cum laude from the Law Faculty of the University of Cologne. He holds an LL.M. degree with a focus on corporate law from New York University School of Law.
Raoul is an active member of the New York City Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the German Bar Association, the German-American Lawyers Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers and the German-American Chamber of Commerce.
Raoul speaks fluent German and is admitted to practice law in New York and Germany.
Read more at bdhllp.com.