Private equity

Optimal consulting for complex projects.

At KPMG Law, we provide investors with the interdisciplinary competence and in-depth expertise necessary to achieve the best possible legal and commercial outcome – along the entire investment cycle of an investment or transaction. To this end, we advise you with nationally and internationally active teams led by highly specialized experts who know the industry.

In complex projects, our clients also benefit from the expertise and experience of our colleagues at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in the areas of financial due diligence, tax, audit or advisory. Thanks to this holistic approach, we are able to provide you with comprehensive advice on transactions and related legal issues.

Consulting focus

Consulting along the investment cycle
Our range of advisory services includes identifying suitable opportunities to acquire or sell a portfolio company, advising on and structuring the transaction, managing the financing, and incentivizing or involving management. We also offer comprehensive support with regard to portfolio companies, ranging from classic corporate housekeeping and add-on acquisitions to reorganization measures aimed at achieving the best possible increase in the value of the portfolio company. At the end of the investment cycle, we advise you on the various exit options such as trade sale, IPO or dual-track procedures.
Significant focal points of our consulting practice include:
- Transaction structuring
- Acquisition and disposal of portfolio companies
- Leveraged buyouts and management buyouts
- Taking Private
- PIPEs
- Fund structuring
- Venture Capital and Early Stage
- Joint ventures
- Minority interests
- Management participation programs
- Consortium agreements and co-investments with strategic investors, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure funds and other financial investors
- Exit consulting
- Financing of projects (equity, debt, mezzanine capital)

Your contact persons

Dr. Daniel Kaut, LL.M.

Partner
Solution Line Head Legal Deal Advisory
Head of Corporate Law, M&A

Bahnhofstraße 30
90402 Nürnberg

Tel.: +49 911 800929952
dkaut@kpmg-law.com

Dr. Ian Maywald

Partner

Friedenstraße 10
81671 München

Tel.: +49 89 5997606-1518
imaywald@kpmg-law.com

© 2024 KPMG Law Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, associated with KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, a public limited company under German law and a member of the global KPMG organisation of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Limited, a Private English Company Limited by Guarantee. All rights reserved. For more details on the structure of KPMG’s global organisation, please visit https://home.kpmg/governance.

KPMG International does not provide services to clients. No member firm is authorised to bind or contract KPMG International or any other member firm to any third party, just as KPMG International is not authorised to bind or contract any other member firm.