The KP Tech Insights series is dedicated to analysing the M&A and corporate finance market in the IT Consulting & IT Services sector every six months. We inform you about the most exciting M&A activities, latest M&A trends, backgrounds, important events, transactions and changes in the most relevant M&A deal multiples.
The KP Tech Insights series is dedicated to analyzing the M&A and corporate finance market in the B2B software industry every six months. We inform you about the most exciting M&A activities, the latest M&A trends, background information, important events, transactions and the development of the most relevant M&A deal multiples.
"KP Tech Insights" is our new format with which we offer you current M&A and corporate finance analyses for various sectors worldwide and especially for Europe. Our analyses provide background information, important events, developments in the most important M&A multiples, generally interesting M&A activities and new M&A trends.
Company brokerage compared to professional M&A advice: As a professional M&A boutique, KP Tech Corporate Finance advises small and medium-sized companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland on company sales and succession, as well as international companies on company acquisitions. Anyone who is interested [...]
List of >250 venture capital companies investing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Seed Investors - Early Stage Venture Capital - Venture Capital - Growth Financing - Early Stage VC Funds - Startup Investors Articles in KP Tech Magazine on the topics of investment agreements, venture capital funds, [...]
M&A Boutique - Business Broker (Company Brokerage) - M&A Advisor When looking for an advisor for the sale of one's company, one finds the most diverse types of providers and advisors. The layman asks himself two questions: "What distinguishes a business broker from a [...]
Letter of Intent - Contents An integral part of every M&A process should be the conclusion of a Letter of Intent ("LoI"). Alternative terms with partly the same or marginally different contents for a Letter of Intent are: Term Sheet (often used for venture capital [...]
Inside Corporate M&A - The Formula of the Fittest - Accenture study on the topic: "Inside Corporate M&A - The Formula of the Fittest" What distinguishes successful corporate buyers from the large remainder of buyers whose corporate acquisition later turns out to be a failure? [...]
Ten principles - conducting successful Mergers & Acquisitions negotiations > First principle: It is important to make a good impression right from the start. The negotiation starts with the first contact and not with the negotiation of a letter of intent or [...]
Material Adverse Change ("MAC"): In recent years, so-called Material Adverse Change ("MAC") clauses have also been included in contracts for the acquisition/sale of companies in German-speaking countries. The background is the distinction between the signing and the [...]
Sales and Purchase Agreement - Adjustment of the purchase price via the cash free/debt free rule in contrast to "locked box" models. In the context of sales and purchase agreements (SPAs) in M&A transactions, there has been a growing trend in recent years [...].
Selling a company: Company valuations For the owners of a company, a company valuation is one of the essential bases for decision-making with regard to the further development of the company. For the seller, who makes a divestment decision with the sale of shares, the purchase price as an absolute date is the essential decision-making factor. [...]
Corporate acquisitions: 5 success factors for a successful M&A function in companies: Successful mergers, acquisitions (M&A) but also divestments (sales of peripheral activities) mostly serve to improve the operating result, to expand the capabilities and competences of a company, to strengthen customer relationships and [...]
Contact
KP TECH Beratungsgesellschaft mbH
Maximilianstr. 2
80539 Munich / Germany
Further offices in Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Duesseldorf
About us
München • London • Philadelphia
KP Tech has been providing consulting services for more than 20 years with a focus on company acquisitions, company sales, company succession, equity capital and company valuation. Our clients include small and medium-sized companies as well as international groups and private equity companies. Most of our clients come from the technology, services and consumer (including e-commerce) & healthcare sectors.
Membership
KP Tech is a member of the Association of German M&A Consultants (VMA), a non-profit alliance of prominent partner-led and independent M&A consulting firms (Frankfurt/Main).
