Mandaa Capital

M&A advisory for owners and investors

Most owners have no idea what their life's work is actually worth.

We advise owners on selling, buyers on acquiring, and both sides on getting ready for it. From owner-managed businesses to corporate groups, in the German-speaking region and beyond.

Request a call What we do

Sell-side Buy-side Value creation

Services

Three jobs we take off your desk

Depending on where you stand: you want to sell, you want to buy, or you first want to get your company into a shape where either is worth doing. From the first valuation range to the signature at the notary.

Sell-side

Selling your company

We take your company to the market without customers, competitors or staff finding out before the time is right.

  • A realistic valuation range, not a wish
  • Information memorandum, teaser and data room
  • Anonymous approach to the right buyers
  • Support through to signing and closing

Buy-side

Acquiring a company

For buyers acquiring on purpose: strategics, private equity, family offices and entrepreneurs growing through acquisition.

  • Search profile and target list
  • Direct approach, including off-market
  • Valuation and price argumentation
  • Coordination of due diligence and financing

Preparation

Value creation

The best time to make a company sellable is two to three years before the sale. The second best is today.

  • Reduce dependency on the owner
  • Build a second layer of management
  • Make numbers, contracts and processes hold up
  • Defuse customer concentration and risk

The gap

What you see every day. And what a buyer pays for.

What has become normal to you over the years turns into a discount for the buyer. He is not paying for the past. He pays for whatever keeps running without you.

Visible day to day Relevant to valuation
Revenue and profit
Sustainable, transferable earnings
A full order book
Recurring revenue and contracted volume
Long-standing customers
A customer base without concentration risk
A team that works well together
A second management layer that decides without you
Routines everyone carries in their head
Documented processes that survive review

The gap between the two columns is the discount a buyer builds into the price. That gap can be closed – but not once the buyer is already in the data room.

Network

Deals rarely fall apart over price

They fall apart over financing, over the contract, or over tax. That is why we work both sides of the table and know the people who carry a transaction in the end – at home as well as with buyers from abroad.

Buy-side and sell-side

  • Strategic buyersCompetitors, suppliers and customers, domestic and international, for whom your company is the missing piece.
  • Private equity and family officesInvestors seeking majority and minority stakes, including buy-and-build platforms.
  • Individual buyers and successorsManagers and entrepreneurs looking for succession in the market rather than a start-up.
  • Sellers planning successionOwners handing over in the coming years, often before a process becomes public.

Lawyers, notaries, tax advisors, banks

  • M&A lawyersPurchase agreement, warranties, indemnities and the clauses people argue about later.
  • NotariesNotarisation of share purchase agreements and restructurings.
  • Tax advisors and auditorsTax structuring ahead of a sale, financial due diligence, vendor assistance.
  • Banks and lendersAcquisition finance, mezzanine and vendor loans for buyers who need a structure.

About us

We come from running businesses ourselves

Mandaa Capital is run by Roman Simschek and Thomas M. Platzer. Between us we bring more than 20 years of running our own businesses and over ten years in M&A and company sales.

We have watched good companies sell below their worth because nobody had prepared them. We have watched owners who were emotionally ready to sell but structurally unable to. And we have watched buyers pay considerably more for a company that was cleanly built and genuinely transferable.

M&A know-how usually stays with those who can afford investment banks and the big audit firms. Everyone else rarely gets the same process, even though the same purchase agreement gets signed at the end. That is exactly where we work.

Contact

A first conversation costs you nothing but half an hour.

Tell us briefly what it is about. We usually come back to you within one business day. Confidential, and with no obligation to take it further.

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