A review of the first German Corporate Transformation Day – Part 5

Section five, which concluded our web conference, was entitled “Mergers and Acquisitions reinvents itself” with the subtitle “the transformation of the most complex project type for companies“. This brought us back to the innermost core of the BM&A mission, whose objectives, methodologies and roles in corporate restructuring are changing with a dynamism and […]
Review of the first German Corporate Transformation Day – Conclusion

Wrap-Up: At the end of the virtual Corporate Transformation Day, as with a real all-day conference, a summary must be submitted in which the cross-block statements and key messages are presented in a condensed form. These are as follows: Firstly, the choice of topics for the Corporate Transformation Day proved to be the right […]
Speed dating: successful premiere in Munich
On Tuesday, October 18, 2022, representatives of the private equity industry met with M&A advisors at the offices of our member Advant Beiten in Munich – for speed dating and to get to know each other. BVK and BM&A organized the event together for the 11th time, and it was a successful premiere in the […]
BM&A Chairman Prof. Dr. Kai Lucks speaks at the 20th German Corporate M&A Congress
On October 4, the German Corporate M&A Congress took place in Frankfurt am Main under the title “Corporate strategies under pressure”. Our CEO Prof. Dr. Kai Lucks opened the event on the topic of global economic challenges, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. He also spoke as an expert in the “Transformation of M&A” […]
Annual General Meeting of the two BM&A associations decides to merge

The annual general meetings of the two German Mergers & Acquisitions associations took place on July 20. As you know, in addition to our association founded in Frankfurt in 2002, there has also been a non-profit association since 2019, which was founded on the occasion of the German-Chinese M&A conference in Duisburg. This was necessary […]
LEBENSWERK 02/2022: Special issue SME study
The first issue of LEBENSWERK with the Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions e.V. (BM&A) as co-publisher alongside the Deutsches Institut für Unternehmensnachfolge e.V. has been completed and is already available online. The print edition is also already in print and will be arriving shortly. With LEBENSWERK, BM&A now has a publication that is aimed […]
Merger of the BM&A with the Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions gemeinnütziger e.V.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In future, the strengths of the Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions e.V. and the Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions gemeinnütziger e.V. are to be combined for the benefit of the members. The members of both associations can vote on this at the annual general meetings of both associations on July 20, 2022. You can view the draft […]
SMEs and M&A: Handelsblatt takes up study by BM&A, M&A REVIEW and DIfU
Last week, the German M&A Association (BM&A) together with DIfU and M&A REVIEW organized the Mittelstandstag M&A 2022. It was a successful event: panel discussions, including with BM&A members Jan Pörschmann from Proventis Partners, Wilhelm Mickerts and Hanno Hepke from Grant Thornton and Hans-Josef Vogel from Advant Beiten, a top-class dinner speech by negotiation expert […]
BM&A and Deutsches Institut für Unternehmensnachfolge e.V. cooperate in the SME segment and establish co-publishing of the magazine “LEBENSWERK”

The German SME sector comprises over 30,000 companies with a turnover of between EUR 10 and 250 million; 12,000 of these companies are owner-managed. Owners and decision-makers in the SME sector are preoccupied with growth strategies and optimizing their own business model. Added to this are the challenges posed by digitalization, the consequences of the […]
Special Newsletter on “The German Energy Dilemma” by Prof. Dr. Kai Lucks

Dear members and friends of the BM&A, For some years now, we have been dealing with digitalization, a cross-cutting issue that is changing all areas of life, including M&A. Corona is now bearing down on us and a climate catastrophe is looming on the horizon that we must face up to. The inevitable transformations include […]