Munich, July 2016 – The Kloepfel Group, the leading purchasing specialist for medium-sized businesses, has founded Kloepfel Corporate Finance with the help of 10 years of cross-sector SME expertise from over 500 consulting mandates. Based in Munich, Kloepfel Corporate Finance is a group of M&A specialists from one of the largest international M&A advisory groups. In addition, the company is managed on a partnership basis and operates independently of banks.

The focus of the company and the teams of experts at Kloepfel Corporate Finance lies on advising transaction projects and financing. The company’s clients include national and international companies in the mid-cap segment. The experienced team, consisting of the M&A experts Dr. Heiko Frank, Hans-Christian Vastert and Katja Diepelt, successfully manages a large number of international and national transactions.
Most recently, the team from Kloepfel Corporate Finance accompanied the sale of a manufacturer of flat ribbon cables to one of the largest automobile lighting manufacturers. The team was also able to win the recent purchase of a foreign niche supplier of industrial filters for a leading German filter manufacturer.

In addition to the process and method know-how of Kloepfel Corporate Finance, customers benefit from the in-depth industry expertise of the Kloepfel Group’s approximately 60 medium-sized experts. Thus, a direct added value is offered by the identification of potential buyer groups and target companies, among other things by the additionally valid company valuations taking into account the respective industry specifics of the M&A consulting.

The Kloepfel Group generates a further benefit through the international presence of the company and the associated access to local industry know-how and access to potential foreign investors.

Marc Kloepfel, managing partner of the Kloepfel Group, comments: “By founding our own M&A consultancy, we are expanding our range not only for companies, but also for entrepreneurs. The combination of industry and specialist expertise generates a unique added value for the client”.

“By merging with the Kloepfel Group, we achieve measurable advantages for our clients throughout the entire transaction process,” says Dr. Heiko Frank, Managing Director of Kloepfel Corporate Finance.

A CFO of an internationally active high-tech company commented on Kloepfel Corporate Finance: “The decisive factor for us was, that the M&A advisor of our choice had a deep understanding of the business model and understands what we produce and what drives us. Kloepfel’s M&A team is able to familiarize itself with complex tasks and to support us in an advisory capacity and to develop solutions with us both on the purchase and on the sale side that will benefit our company in the long term”.

Kloepfel Corporate Finance’s client focus is on medium-sized companies, private equity funds and group units with annual sales of between 10 and 500 million euros.