At a glance
- For sellers in Germany: owners, family offices and investors who want to sell a company, a business unit or a brand and want to include buyers from India.
- For buyers from India: companies that want to acquire a German business instead of building one from scratch.
- Strictly confidential: NDA first, anonymous approach, names only after qualification.
- Together with your advisers: we work alongside M&A advisers, lawyers and tax advisers.
For sellers: buyers that German processes rarely reach
Most sale processes in Germany address German and European strategic buyers and financial investors. Indian industrial groups are rarely on the list, although many of them are actively looking for a European base, a German brand or German engineering.
We add this group of buyers to your process:
- Identify: Indian companies whose products, customers and growth plans fit your business.
- Qualify: before a name is disclosed, we check financial capacity, ownership and compliance. Our colleague in Bengaluru is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and knows the KYC checks German banks and notaries expect.
- Prepare: we translate expectations in both directions, from decision speed to what a family-owned Indian buyer needs to see before a board decision.
- Accompany: management meetings, site visits in Germany and visits to the buyer in India.
For buyers: a German company instead of a start from zero
Buying a running German company gives you customers, certifications, people and a brand from day one. It also brings German rules on employees, contracts and liability that are easy to underestimate from abroad.
- Find targets: succession cases, carve-outs and brands that fit your strategy.
- Open the door: a German-speaking contact who approaches the owner properly.
- Coordinate the deal: German lawyers, tax advisers and, where needed, an acquisition vehicle (GmbH) with a business address.
- Stay after closing: local presence, representation and support for the integration in Germany.
How a mandate works
- Confidential first conversation under NDA: what is for sale or wanted, why now, and what a good outcome looks like.
- Profile and long list of suitable buyers or targets.
- Anonymous approach with a short profile, without the company name.
- NDA and qualification of interested parties, then disclosure of the details.
- Meetings, visits and negotiation together with your M&A, legal and tax advisers.
- Closing and after: we remain the contact on the ground in Germany.
Why Business Center Reutlingen
Christoph Schuler spent more than 15 years at Mercedes-Benz in development and management, including two years as an expat in Bangalore. He knows how German industrial companies decide and how Indian family businesses work from the inside. Co-founder Nancy James was born and raised in Bangalore. Anand Christy James, CAMS, works for us in Bengaluru.
Our network in India includes industry associations and chambers, and chartered accountant firms with cross-border practices. We are a member of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce. In Germany we work with law firms and tax advisers and say clearly where our part ends.
Questions
Business Center Reutlingen provides commercial and organisational support and introduces you to licensed professionals. We do not give legal or tax advice and do not prepare valuations or transaction documents. In Germany only admitted lawyers (Rechtsanwälte) and tax advisers (Steuerberater) may advise on legal and tax matters.