List with around 240 private equity companies in Germany (40 columns), including the largest private equity funds, holding companies working like private equity houses and family equity investors. These holding companies have a place of business in Germany (although the headquarters may be abroad). You invest to regulate the succession in often medium-sized companies, eg because no family members are available and the entrepreneur is considering selling the company. If a successor is brought in from outside, this is referred to as a management buy-in. If this is gained from the existing management, usually from the 2nd level, this is referred to as a management buy-out. If both apply, one speaks of Bimbo. In all Situations, the PE company usually acquires the majority of the shares from the previous entrepreneur/owner and cedes shares to the new management on preferential terms in order to motivate them to perform at their best. In quite a few cases, the previous owner also repurchases shares at this stage by way of a re-investment. This creates trust for the buyers, but also for the customers and the financing banks. At the same time, it also helps to further secure the valuable know-how of the previous management. For this purpose, a specialist advisory board is often set up, in which the ex-entrepreneur is also offered a seat alongside external experts.
In addition to succession arrangements, there are also reasons for participation in the acquisition of group units or areas that no longer belong to the core business (non-core). In the context of a so-called spin-off, unprofitable areas in particular are spun out of the group and spun off into a separate, legally independent entity. In this way, the group intends to better position itself strategically and become more profitable. These new group companies can then in the framework, sog. (Equity) Carve-outs; sold either in full or in part to third parties. Here you get the chance to flourish as a new core business of the buyer (e.g. the PE house).
As part of (organic) growth strategies, attempts are made to position the target company much better. In a buy-and-build or federation strategy, PE funds consolidate highly fragmented industries. As part of this inorganic growth strategy, they usually acquire a medium-sized or larger market participant as a platform via a holding company and then buy smaller, strategically suitable industry participants. They usually acquire the latter at lower purchase price multiples. Then, as part of the consolidation, central functions are merged and synergies are achieved, such as purchasing benefits. Smaller acquisitions with unique features - e.g. special products - can significantly increase the value of the holding company, since previous customers of the small company also buy me-too products from the holding company, which increases their sales. When selling later, the PE house tries to sell to the largest market participants at significantly higher selling price multiples or dares an IPO if possible.
Some private equity funds specialize in restructuring and turnaround cases (distressed. quot cases). Here, for example, they get into companies that are on the verge of insolvency due to mismanagement at low prices and try to get the company back on track with special management know-how and capital. A significantly higher risk is rewarded with success with a multiple of the entry price for a later sale. While a classic investment company aims to double the invested funds on average within the framework of growth concepts, it is more like 5-10 times that for restructuring funds. In all of the above cases, a majority stake is usually sought in order to be able to better implement all measures.
Since private equity companies have successfully supplanted the reputation among medium-sized companies, many more investment companies are willing - mostly qualified - minority investments (25 .1 - 50.0 percent). This strategy is called growth.
Last update: Dec 7, 2023 !

You will receive the list of top private equity investors as an Excel file with the following information:

Contact details of the PE house, ie email address, telephone number and business address of the company, URL
Managing directors / board members / partners
Usually 2 contacts at management level, possibly with links to their Linkedin/Xing profiles.

As published:
direct extension, personal email address
link to team page,
Link to the portfolio page or selected investments,
founding date,
Investment focus by industry and region,
Investment stage (growth, buyout, distressed), strategy if necessary (buy & build, spin-off, carve out)
Does the PE fund also occur - but not only ! -as a fund of funds (FoF) on ?
Does the PE company also - but not only ;
Debt financing?
participation type; Majority and/or minority holdings, mezzanine
Equity investment from... to... million euros, transaction amount
Turnover size of the target company from... to... million euros
Name of the current fund including year of inception and volume
Amount of assets under management (AUM)
Investors come from which category: private investors/family office, fund of funds/FoF, pension fund/fund, insurance company, credit/financial institution/bank, church investor, foreign wealth fund (state fund), foundation (endowmnent), company, etc.?
shareholder
association membership
File creation date, last update and type/content of changes.
 
For 240 companies, around 40 columns have to be filled out, i.e. theoretically around 9.600 data points. Some of these are not filled out due to data not (yet) available and are filled in with an n/a or left blank.
You will receive 2-3 updates free of charge in the year following your purchase. In these, new companies are added and the previous entries are checked and corrected or supplemented.
 
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