Mergermarket M&A Forum Germany 2023
Mergermarket’s flagship event for key players in German and cross-border M&A market
Marriott Hotel, Hamburger Allee 2, 60486 Frankfurt
Lead Strategic Sponsor
CMS
https://cms.law/en/GBR/CMS is a full service top global law firm with more than 4,500 lawyers in 74 offices providing clients with specialist business focused advice. With more than 1,000 corporate lawyers, CMS advises on all aspects of M&A, corporate finance and private equity transactions and is regularly ranked amongst the top M&A advisers in Europe and beyond. CMS features among the league table leaders both for Europe as a whole and for many of the individual European countries. We are service-driven and relationship focused, priding ourselves on our responsiveness and “can do” attitude. We strive to develop long-term relationships with our clients, giving prompt, straightforward and commercial legal advice. We draw on renowned industry expertise in a number of sectors including Financial Institutions and Services, Energy and Utilities, Technology, Media and Communications (TMC), Lifesciences, Consumer Products, Construction and Development, Hotels, Leisure and Sport, and Infrastructure and Project Finance. For more information, visit www.cmslegal.com.
Strategic Sponsors
36Brains
https://www.36brains.com/36Brains is a corporate intelligence company based in Europe, with offices in Milan and Berlin. It offers corporate intelligence and investigation services, security and cyber breach response and forensic investigations. It works with companies, law firms, investment funds and governments. The company's operations are active worldwide and it boasts an international clientele. 36Brains strives to disrupt the current model of corporate intelligence and investigation by offering a nuanced approach by integrating old-school intelligence strategies with cutting-edge technological innovation. The tech factor is key for effectiveness and efficiency, as the company employs advanced tools that are custom-built to handle big data, reduce repetitive tasks and deliver precise outcomes. 36Brains is a Relativity partner.
Backstop Solutions
https://www.backstopsolutions.com/Because every minute matters, Backstop’s mission is to help the institutional investment industry use time to its fullest potential. We develop technology to simplify and streamline otherwise time-consuming tasks and processes, enabling our clients to quickly and easily access, share, and manage the knowledge that’s critical to their day-to-day business success. Backstop provides its industry-leading cloud-based productivity suite to private equity, investment consultants, pensions, funds of funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, hedge funds, and real estate investment firms.
Kroll
https://www.kroll.com/enKroll is the leading global provider of risk solutions. For more than 45 years, Kroll has helped clients make confident risk management decisions about people, assets, operations and security through a wide range of investigations, cyber security, due diligence and compliance, physical and operational security, and data and information management services. For more information, visit www.kroll.com.
PwC
https://www.pwc.com/PwC's Financial Markets and Real Estate practice is focused on anticipating, understanding and resolving challenges across the financial instrument lifecycle. Our specialist staff provide tech-enabled services across the full securitized product lifecycle, including a range of consulting services such as strategy, operations, transaction analytics, and reporting.
Serafin
https://www.serafin-gruppe.de/?lang=enSerafin is a diversified industrial group, whose philosophy is based on more than 150 years of entrepreneurial tradition of its shareholding family.
Serafin invests into companies with the aim to foster their long-term development in accordance with all stakeholders.
The Group generates total revenues in excess of EUR 900 million with more than 5,000 employees.
Serafin is supported by an experienced advisory board consisting of Prof. Dr. Bernd Gottschalk, Wolfgang Ley and Prof. Dr. Heinrich von Pierer.
Sterling Technology
https://www.sterlingvdr.com/Sterling Technology, a subsidiary of TransPerfect, is the leading provider of premium virtual data room (VDR) solutions for secure sharing of content, business process automation, and collaboration for the M&A, corporate development, real estate, capital markets, private capital, banking, and legal communities. Sterling has been supporting the capital and M&A markets for over 30 years, initially with financial printing services. Since opening our first VDR in 2010 we have helped customers from over 187 countries and 90 industries successfully complete thousands of deals. With offices in seven major financial centers, Sterling is trusted by its users to deliver exceptional levels of service on their most critical transactions.
WTW
https://www.wtwco.comAt WTW, we provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital. Leveraging the global view and local expertise of our colleagues serving 140 countries and markets, we help organizations sharpen their strategy, enhance organizational resilience, motivate their workforce and maximize performance.
Working shoulder to shoulder with our clients, we uncover opportunities for sustainable success—and provide perspective that moves you.