starkpartners stands for independent, implementation-oriented corporate finance consulting with a clear focus on the challenges of medium-sized companies in an increasingly dynamic, geopolitically influenced and regulated market environment – especially in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).
We support our clients in strategic key phases – from company succession (M&A) to growth and transformation to building resilience, refinancing and complex company valuation. We combine operative implementation strength with financial depth – especially in the context of communication with banks, investors, financing partners and advisory boards.
A particular focus is on supporting international mandates and cross-border transactions: We have in-depth experience in structuring, evaluating and implementing cross-border projects, whether on the buyer or seller side, in international investment structures or as part of global supply chains.
Our clients are mainly family-run industrial and service companies, industry-related investors and internationally active medium-sized groups that operate in Europe, North America or Asia are active. Thanks to our experience in intercultural project management, regulatory framework conditions and the integration of international consulting networks, we act as a reliable bridge builder between strategic vision and operative implementation – nationally and internationally.
Thorsten Stark, Senior Partner
Company sale - Strategic succession
Sell Side M&A
starkpartners identifies with your company and all your individual concerns – we are always wide awake and internationally engaged. Based on our many years of expertise and knowledge of people, we optimize and develop your success thanks to a widespread network. Our specialists are excellent at focusing on your needs and creating a comprehensive overall concept for the entire sales process. Through this well-founded advice and support, we achieve an optimum in increasing the value and strengthening the company.
starkpartners – Expertise in company sales:
- Independent advice without conflicts of interest
- Identification with potential buyers through detailed industry analysis
- Optimization of purchase price, purchase structuring and disposal conditions
- Best possible preparation and execution of the sales process
TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS
Distressed M&A
Decisions to sell or acquire a company require a structured approach.
starkpartners has the necessary experience from numerous (Distressed) M&A projects for specifically adapted advice to the various clients (insolvency administrators, shareholders, credit institutions, investment companies).
Restructuring and reorganization cases are our daily bread and butter – we create added value for our clients. Our successfully completed M&A projects illustrate the trust placed in starkpartners.
starkpartners – Expertise in Distressed M&A Projects:
- International market participants (SMEs, corporations)
- Experience in Restructuring (Out-Of-Court) and Insolvency Cases (In-Court)
- In-depth Industry Expertise
- Interlocking of Corporate Restructuring and Corporate Finance
- Resilient, international network to decision-makers at potential investors
Numbers say more than a thousand words
Company valuation, financial planning controlling
Company valuation, financial planning controlling
Pythagoras already knew more than 500 years BC:
“Number is the essence of all things.”
In economic life, it is often primarily about hard facts and figures. Be it in answering the question of how much your company is worth or how high your current liquidity requirements are. starkpartners will work with you to find the right answers to these questions, because our methods and tools enable us to effectively support you in the area of finance. Our services include:
- Company valuation using various valuation methods (discounted cash flow method, multiplier method, etc.)
- Creation of an integrated financial plan using an MS Excel tool
- Creation of liquidity plans to identify your individual liquidity requirements
- Creation of Planning Scenarios (Worst Case, Real Case, Best Case)
- Pre-linked tool for preparing a monthly or quarterly target/actual comparison
- Tool for preparing management consolidation
- Plausibility check of created plan files, target/actual comparisons, company valuations, etc.
Success with the right strategy
Restructuring and Reorganization
Our experience shows that financiers, works councils and trade unions as well as other creditors often support an out-of-court restructuring if it is made clear to them in a comprehensible manner that the company would otherwise not be viable. In order to achieve the restructuring goal for your company, it may be useful to draw up a judicial restructuring plan and make it clear to those involved that this will be implemented if no out-of-court agreement is reached in the short term.
Often, similar restructuring effects can be achieved for the company in this way as in court proceedings. starkpartners helps you to develop a strategy for negotiations with creditors and then implement it.
Your team for complex strategy and financial decisions
Thorsten Stark
Alexander Kögel
Dr. Frank Behrend
Horst Rieder
Lars Stark
Dr. iur. Johannes Marcel Offergeld
Dr. Maren Schweizer
Frank Jäger
Alexander Kahle
David Kremer
Bryant Chen
Andreas Rauner
Mario Zurera Sánchez
Daniela Schneider
Anna Slobodian
Filip Soldo
Julia Päßler
Leon Röbke
Th. Christian Jurascheck
Annett Stark
Dmitri Rudi
Ralf Frohberg
Yi Yang Yuen
Olga Besprosvany
Below we present an overview of our company history
Below we present an overview of our company history
starkpartners consulting GmbH already moved into the new branch on Königstraße in January 2023.
With the opening of our new branch, as a competence center in Dresden, we are taking another step to strengthen our competences on site in order to be even closer to our customers and clients and to support them with our proven expertise.
starkpartners consulting GmbH has again been awarded the TOP CONSULTANT AWARD seal in 2021. This means that the consulting company is once again one of the best SME consultants in Germany.
With the expansion of our areas of expertise and the appointment of several entrepreneurial personalities to the company’s advisory board, SMC GmbH is now becoming the new starkpartners consulting GmbH with headquarters in Meerbusch.
With lawyer Th. Christian Jurascheck, a suitable cooperation partner was won, who from now on will accompany legal questions in the MA projects.
The consulting industry has the reputation in some places of producing a lot of hot air and withdrawing after providing advice. Not so the consultants at SMC: Instead of just delivering theoretical solutions, they accompany their clients until the implementation of the measures has been completed. “We don’t leave anyone alone”, emphasizes Senior Partner Thorsten Stark. His company is primarily dedicated to technically oriented companies, for example from telecommunications, IT, automotive supply, industry or building automation. For our excellent work, we were even awarded the “TOP CONSULTANT AWARD” 2013|2014.
The SMC companies (today starkpartners) are now moving into their own office space in Meerbusch, Lank-Latum district, which is geared towards their needs and growth. In addition to now sufficient capacity, the need for additional meeting and training rooms was also met.
The own high-secure data center is online. In addition to the IT services and hosting services already offered, the group of companies is expanding its prerequisites in order to be able to provide customer-specific database applications in the future. In addition to state-of-the-art security and backup technology, the database storage has also been massively increased.
SMC is becoming a sponsor in motorsport and is supporting the team of Michael Eichhorn and Jörn Heuberg as drivers in the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring in the Eifel in the 2013 season. We wish the team and everyone involved every success. Racing means focusing on the essentials for us.
Organizational separation of the business areas into the two main groups SMC Management Consulting for the area of corporate succession and investments and SMC Restructure for corporate restructuring and reorganization completed. In addition to the already spun-off areas SMC IT Solutions and EGI – Emea Global Inkasso, the teams are now also assigned to the respective focus areas.
Strengthening of cooperation in the area of restructuring through intensification of cooperation with renowned insolvency administrators from Düsseldorf. As a successful and effective team, the SMC consultants work hand in hand with the specialist lawyers from the Andres Schneider law firm.
SMC Management takes over the insolvent HAHM Computer GmbH from Erftstadt and creates its own competence center for IT consulting for SMEs. 6 employees were taken over and continue to support the customers of the former HAHM IT – the company is being reorganized under the name EMEAnet GmbH and is the first independent subsidiary of SMC Management GmbH.
SMC Management is strengthening its economic consulting division with the experienced economic expert and long-time auditor Clemens Koch, who is joining the company as a partner and will be responsible for the controlling and analytics division from now on.
The SMC Management team moves into its first offices in the state capital Düsseldorf, in very attractive office space in GAP15. The other offices in Munich are vacated and the move to Düsseldorf is completed in just 4 working days.
Stark Management Consulting was founded in December 2005 with the aim of strategically supporting medium-sized companies in special situations such as corporate succession, restructuring and MA. The foundation laid the foundation for today’s positioning as a leading corporate finance consultancy for SMEs.
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