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Leading Advisor 100
dr. Axel Gollnick Mergers & acquisitions
dr. axel gollnick
Dr. Axel Gollnick is CEO and Managing Partner of M&A International GmbH, one of Germany´s leading independent corporate finance advisory firms focusing on midcap M&A transactions.
Since end of the 1980s Axel Gollnick established his reputation in advising German “Mittelstand”
companies, typically
Contact: Dr. Axel Gollnick CEO / Managing Partner M&A International GmbH Campus Kronberg 7 D-61476 Kronberg im Taunus Germany
Tel.: +49 6173 702 115 Fax: +49 6173 702 333
Email: gollnick@m-a-international.de Website: www.m-a-international.de
family-owned, on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. The fact that almost all projects he advises are sell-side assignments impressively underlines his particular status in the German mid-cap M&A market. Axel Gollnick combines an entrepreneurial approach at eyelevel with outstanding skills as a coach, sparring partner and a negotiator. In each transaction, he is the committed lead advisor for his client, conducting the entire process and all other parties involved.
The core expertise of his broad knowledge lies in the areas of business services, consumer goods and industrial products as well as developing successful solutions for complex projects. Furthermore, Axel Gollnick has an excellent track record of successful deals with private equity investors.
Selected transactions include the following: Sale of Ascopharm Group to private equity firm Adiuva Capital (MBI), sale of Theisen Baumaschinen AG to Finish listed Cramo PLC (trade sale), sale of Kaffee Partner Group to Swiss-based private equity firms Capvis Equity Partner and Partners Group (tertiary buy-out), sale of Erpo Möbelwerke GmbH to financial investor Afinum (MBO), sale of listed Rhein-Ruhr Energie AG to Kofler Energies AG, sale of Alex & Gross Communications GmbH to Tectum Group (portfolio company of Quadriga Capital), sale of Advanced Polymer Technology Corp. (USA) and Sports Technology International (Asia) Ltd. to Sportfield Beteiligungen (portfolio company of Industri Capital).
Axel Gollnick is also a key contact for journalists of leading German daily newspapers and trade journals for their reports on M&A topics or specific transactions (e.g., Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Börsenzeitung, Wirtschaftswoche, Going Public Magazin etc.). He is author and editor of the so-called “m&a monitor”, the twice a year published m&a market survey with involvement of German corporates which is well received in the community.
Axel Gollnick took over M&A International in 2007 in the course of a succession planning from the founder Arno Burckardt. Previously, he built up Gollnick Corporate Finance since 2006 and was Managing Partner at Doertenbach & Co. GmbH from 1999 to 2005.
Prior to that, he was Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at BHF-Bank AG for three years. From 1993 until 1996 he headed the M&A department of IKB Deutsche Industriebank and then integrated it into the BHF-Bank. Axel Gollnick started his career in 1989 at distinguished private bank M.M. Warburg & Co. in Hamburg.
Following a bank apprenticeship, Axel Gollnick studied Business Administration and Law at the University of Göttingen (Germany). He holds a degree in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) and a PhD in Law (Dr. jur.). Mr. Gollnick is Chairman of the supervisory board of NWDH Holding AG and consultative member of the Advisory Board of Kaffee Partner Holding GmbH. His honorary posts include the Chairman of the Parish Council of Kronberg Markus-Gemeinde Schönberg and Vice Chairman of the Management Board of the Kronberg Foundation.