Executive Advisory for transactions and value creation
Deal Flow with operational substance.
Value enhancement with impact.
DHM Advisory combines corporate finance precision, M&A excellence, and lived executive experience. We accompany owners, investors, and management teams from the first strategic decision to the measurable implementation of value enhancement.
For family businesses, private equity, and family offices.
Business decisions deserve business partners.
Whether succession, growth, acquisition, financing, or transformation: DHM Advisory creates clarity in business decisions, structures demanding transactions, and realises sustainable value enhancement. We bring our many years of experience in a partnership and work with you to accelerate the path to the right solution. Personally, discreetly, and consistently in implementation.
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Trustfull coordination of succession planning and of buy-side acquisitions
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Scaling business models and focusing on M&A transactions with strategic fit
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Strategic positioning and implementation of effective value creation initiatives
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Risk optimize finance solutions for capital structures and financing needs
Advisory with transaction know-how and operational ownership.
DHM Advisory is an independent executive advisory partnership for entrepreneurial challenges to leverage opportunities in the sense of active future shaping. We connect the perspectives of owners, investors, financiers, and management teams to validate the current situation and meaningful courses of action. Below, we translate strategic ambition into fundable decisions, robust transactions, and effective implementation.
From setting the course to value realisation.
DHM Advisory supports companies and investors along the entire value chain. This prevents breaks between strategic decision-making, deal execution, and operational transformation.
Strategy & Preparation
We create clarity about options, value drivers, and decision-making bases.
Potential application areas: succession, strategy, portfolio, growth agenda, target screening, equity story.
Transaction & Financing
We structure the decision-making process and implement demanding transactions including financing and transaction execution.
Potential application areas: M&A (company sale/purchase), financing/capital raising, due diligence, negotiation.
Transformation & Value Creation
We realise value potentials together with management and organisation with measurable increases in company value.
Potential application areas: 100-day plan, growth, EBIT, cash, governance, post-merger integration (PMI).
Sector understanding
reduces risk.
We prefer to work where business models require explanation, value creation is technical, and decision-making processes are complex. Our industry understanding improves the quality of valuation, transaction logic, integration planning, and operational implementation.
In particular in mechanical/plant engineering, smart industries, MedTech, life sciences, food & beverage, technical B2B services, technology and industrial companies.
Different perspectives.
A common value proposition.
Leading the life's work into the next phase.
We have managed family-run businesses ourselves and know that succession is more than just a matter of balance sheets or transactions. DHM Advisory supports entrepreneurial families from the initial consideration through strategic preparation to a successful handover. Discreetly, in a structured manner and with respect for the legacy that has been built up over time..
- Succession strategy and shareholder dialogue
- Growth, transformation, and future security
- Sale, partial sale, participation, or internal family transfer
Operational substance before and after closing.
DHM Advisory not only provides deal flow, but also a robust operational perspective on target companies and portfolio companies. We combine sourcing, transaction structuring and post-merger value enhancement – ensuring that the equity story, management reality and value creation align from the outset.
- Target company valuation from the managing director's perspective
- 100-day plan, management onboarding, and integration
- Performance, cash, and growth programmes in the portfolio
Translating capital into sustainable corporate value.
Family offices invest for the long term and with an entrepreneurial mindset. DHM Advisory combines corporate finance precision with operational responsibility for direct investments, succession planning and buy-and-build strategies that preserve value and create the capacity to act.
- Direct mid-market investments and succession solutions
- Buy-and-build, platform strategy, and acquisitions
- Governance, operational control, and long-term value development
Perspectives for entrepreneurs and investors.
DHM Insights categorises relevant developments at the interface of SMEs, M&A, financing and value creation. The content should demonstrate expertise without a marketing character: analytical, opinionated and action-oriented.
Suitable content formats:
- “The first 100 days after closing: What really creates value”
- “Succession in SMEs: Five decisions before the sales process”
- „Value Creation im Maschinenbau: EBIT, Cash oder strategische Neupositionierung?“
- “Buy-and-build without integration break: The operational perspective”
- “Working capital as a value lever in industrial business models”
Our success stories
Excerpt of outstanding companies we have worked with.
