Buyer-Side Succession
Acquiring and structuring solid owner-managed businesses when the next generation, leadership or structure is missing.
Succession • Acquisition • Structure
DAVID SERAFIN CAPITAL®
UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Companies with substance deserve a clear next hand. I work buyer-side on succession and acquisition situations in German-speaking Mittelstand markets — discreetly, numbers-first and long-term. Relevant situations involve profitable owner-managed companies with real demand, capable people and a transition question that has to be solved.
Confidential. Numbers-based. No pressure. No public theatre.
I do not usually speak as a public broker, and this website is not a pitch deck. It is a first verification point for serious conversations. Further detail is shared only selectively and, where appropriate, under confidentiality.
After a first contact, this site has one job: reality, calm, direction.
Anyone arriving here should quickly understand: I work in a structured way, respect life’s work, and do not waste time. Substance is evaluated, not put on display. Understand first. Structure second. Decide third.
What I Do
Transaction Structuring
Clarity around numbers, negotiations, financing path, risks, security and closing logic.
Post-Transition Stabilisation
Leadership, people, processes and 100-day order after closing — without unnecessary friction.
Selected Situations
Transitions, participations, cooperations and regional platform logic where discretion and pace matter.
What I Look For
Owner-managed companies with earnings, team, demand and traceable substance. Particularly relevant are profitable niches, services, industry, healthcare, facility, specialist segments and regional platform logic.
Sectors, target sizes and concrete search fields are not put in the shop window. Good conversations start confidentially — not publicly.
SubstanceReal revenues, real customers, real delivery.
DemandRecurring or resilient demand rather than fashion.
TransitionSuccession, leadership, capital or structure as the bottleneck.
BankabilityNumbers, documents and risks must become reviewable.
Confidential Process
01First Contact
Context, no pressure, no price negotiation.
02Fit
Why now, why at all, who needs to be involved?
03NDA
Sensitive numbers, customers and documents only after confidentiality.
04Documents
Financial statements, management accounts, customer mix, employees, contracts, risks.
05On Site
Understand the business, people, processes, assets and bottlenecks.
06Structure
Bank story, financing, advisors, risks and next step.
07Decision
Proceed / Watch / Pause / Decline — written recap instead of limbo.
After the first conversation
No limbo.
After an initial exchange, I summarise fit, open items and the next sensible step in writing — short, confidential and decision-oriented. Serious conversations get clarity. Non-fit situations get clarity too.
How I Work
Discreet Communication
Direct contact, selective exchange and respect for confidentiality. No unnecessary stage.
Disciplined Evaluation
Structured screening, clean assumptions, clear risks and decisive follow-through.
Long-Term Responsibility
Ownership as stewardship: stability, people, cash flow and value before noise.
Private operating layer
Structure behind the surface.
Behind the public surface, I work with a private documentation and decision architecture. It stays private. It brings order to conversations, documents, risks, bank logic and follow-through.
Purpose: clarity, speed and traceability — not show.
Who This Site Is For
Business Owners
When succession, transition or clarity is on the table.
Advisors
When a serious buyer-side or structuring counterpart is needed.
Banks
When substance, financing and execution have to fit together.
Professional Partners
When discretion, pace and clean roles matter.
Further detail is shared selectively and, where appropriate, under confidentiality.
Contact
David Serafin | Geschäftsführer / Managing Director
DAVID SERAFIN CAPITAL® UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Eschersheimer Landstraße 42
60322 Frankfurt am Main | Germany
Register court: Amtsgericht Frankfurt a.M. · HRB 140908 · VAT ID: DE459460738
No legal, tax or investment advice. No financial service. No public offer to acquire or sell businesses or participations. Conversations are confidential and dependent on the specific facts.