Strenghts
Independence and confidentiality
Our company is grounded in trust. Hübner Schlösser & Cie is owned exclusively by its partners and will only consult with customers on the basis of a commonality of interests. It has no involvements in capital market activities and because it is relatively small, it does not risk running into conflicts with other clients' interests.
Although well connected to the financial community, Hübner Schlösser & Cie can guarantee absolute confidentiality due to its small team and well-defined scope of activities.
Experience
The founding partners of Hübner Schlösser & Cie have an enormous reference base and unique background:
• They have been gathered over 50 years' experience in corporate transactions as advisors and private equity investors. In the mid-1980s, they numbered amongst the first professionals to introduce Anglo-Saxon methodologies in corporate transactions in Germany.
• They have handled small, medium-sized, large and very large transactions in all sorts of industries and transaction types, in Germany and abroad.
• They have consulted for mid-sized entrepreneurs, family businesses, minority stakeholders, division heads, banks, private-equity and venture-capital companies, supervisory board directors, CEOs, and some of the largest German public companies; and they have been involved in some of the largest transactions to be conducted in Europe.
Judgment
The most important quality required for the success of a transaction is judgment with regards to the project, the risks, the opportunities, value potential or the limits of what can be negotiated. The partners at Hübner Schlösser & Cie have in part acted as principals, acquired, managed and then sold companies. As consultants, they have many years of broad transaction experience.
Hübner Schlösser & Cie will act as a professional partner as well when it comes to crucial decisions of its clients' regarding the "if at all" question or "at what price." For Hübner Schlösser & Cie, the main task that needs to be addressed in a consultation is not only to carry out a planned transaction professionally, but also to examine broadly the value contribution to the client.
Networking
Access is helpful, but in general it's only the personal contacts of the active players that can be used effectively. Because of the many years of transaction experience gathered by its partners and employees, Hübner Schlösser & Cie has developed a tight national and international network of contacts in a variety of industrial segments. The company has personal contacts to virtually all private equity and venture capital investment firms active in German-speaking Europe.
Hübner Schlösser & Cie works closely together with leading auditing firms, law firms and corporate consultancies specialized in transactions. The relationships of Hübner Schlösser & Cie are very earnest, and these relationships can support a project well, especially when coupled with the readiness to deploy senior level staff.
Performance
Transactions and financing can only succeed if backed by hard work, solid research, lots of information, data processing, preparation for the decision-making process, analysis, communication with the experts involved and the deciders, all the way to the negotiations. They call for competent, effective personalities, who take on the tasks wholeheartedly and have excellent analytical and communication skills. Hübner Schlösser & Cie will steer and drive the project with the highest level of commitment and can even act as an extended workbench of its clients. Personnel involved will consist of motivated, specialized professionals with top-notch training. The project managers will be highly experienced partners.
Decisive for the success of many transactions is perseverance, resoluteness, industriousness and in particular speed. Hübner Schlösser & Cie considers these to be internal values of its corporate culture, as is the company's analytical approach, which is based on state-of-the-art methods of financial science.
Hübner Schlösser & Cie has access to the most effective international databases. This allows it to identify potential transaction partners throughout the world and for accessing important information on markets, competitors and similar transactions.