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 P\u00f6rschmann 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 Matthias Schranner, good food, networking and a great location at the Zeche Zollverein. <\/p>\n
But that’s not all: the Mittelstandstag M&A 2022 had set itself the goal of examining the extent to which M&A is an effective instrument for managing succession in SMEs or driving forward corporate development. To this end, M&A REVIEW sought professional support and asked the 12,000 owner-managed companies in the German SME sector in advance: Florian Bauer from Lancaster University and Martin Friesl from the University of Bamberg conducted a large SME study to find out how entrepreneurs use M&A and what challenges SMEs face when it comes to mergers and transactions. <\/p>\n