Whether you’re selling or buying: the first step for OPL Partners is always understanding. Understanding your personal situation and the situation with regard to your company, your expectations, your goals and your company’s strategy. To do this, we listen to you and ask questions, sometimes possibly silly questions, sometimes uncomfortable questions, sometimes questions that are rather difficult to answer, but always with the aim of fully understanding your situation and your business in order to be able to support you in the best possible way.

For Sellers:

  • Understanding your personal situation and expectations
  • Analysing your company or product portfolio
  • Independently valuing your company or product portfolio
  • Developing and evaluating the sales options for you
  • If required, organising vendor due diligence
  • Preparing sales documents (NDA, teaser, memo)
  • Finding and discreetly approaching suitable potential buyers at decision-maker level
  • Conducting or facilitating sales talks
  • Assisting with a data room, due diligence and management presentations
  • Facilitating contract negotiations
  • If necessary, assisting with registering with competition authorities
  • Supporting the closing process
  • Monitoring post-contractual obligations
  • Entrepreneur coaching during the change process

For Buyers:

  • Understanding your strategic goals for your company and your room for manoeuvre
  • If required, analysing your company and developing an acquisition strategy
  • Developing and agreeing a list of potential acquisition targets for your company with initial inside-out information
  • Discreetly approaching potential targets at decision-maker level
  • Confidential initial interviews
  • After successfully establishing contact, you and your M&A team can take over, if necessary, we can also accompany you for the rest of the process.
  • Conducting or facilitating sales talks
  • Assisting with the organisation of due diligence and arranging external experts
  • Independently evaluating targets and business plans
  • Facilitating contract negotiations
  • If necessary, assisting with registering with competition authorities
  • Supporting the closing process
  • Assisting with post-merger integration

We are not lawyers, notaries, tax advisers or auditors, but we are happy to help you find suitable specialists.