Holger Kopietz, experienced omegaconsulting consultant and expert in finance and controlling, called and all the northerners came: The nationwide consulting firm omegaconsulting founded a northern group on January 29, 2016. The aim is to offer clients even more regional expertise in the areas of company succession, MBI/MBO and HR consulting.

In the offices of the Innoreal communications agency in Hanover, the kick-off workshop focused on getting to know each other better, networking, clarifying project and process workflows and initial ideas for specific joint projects: Innoreal managing director, coach and omegaconsulting partner Gudrun Jay-Bößl moderated the meeting of the 10 consultants from the northern German states.

Succession and SME experts, tax consultants, auditors, interim managers and coaches:
At omegaconsulting’s Northern Group, clients can find three categories of consultants:

• The experienced succession consultants and advisors take care of the core process.
• When it comes to tax, law and auditing, for example, the representatives of these expert groups are also involved.
• Topics such as coaching in succession processes, internal and external communication of the respective buyer or seller company through to interim management and marketing and sales support form the third pillar of the group

Three new faces from the fields of tax consulting, auditing and interim management enriched the Northern Group and were particularly impressed by the flexibility of the omegaconsulting network: “Here there are clear quality criteria, a strong brand with reliable support, but no gimmicks.

Flexibility and diversity make the omegaconsulting brand strong
Jean-Claude Baumer, Managing Director of omegaconsulting, who has traveled all the way from omegaconsulting’s southern German headquarters in Landshut, says: “We provide added value to the various client groups when it comes to succession. To do this, we need internally experienced partners from different professions. All people who work best when they cooperate voluntarily in the interests of the customer. The customer – whether company seller, buyer, investor or HR manager – benefits from this structure.”

Partners for successful company succession for 10 years: the BDU Association for Founding, Development and Succession and the nexxt change company exchange. During its trade association meeting at the beginning of October at KfW in Berlin, the BDU trade association looked back on the cooperation. Jean-Claude Baumer and Claudia Heinzel, Managing Director and Partner at omegaconsulting respectively, were also present. “This partnership is very important – especially for providers and consumers. The BDU currently appoints 16 regional partners to advise on company succession. This allows us to support the process at an early stage and ensure that it runs as smoothly as possible,” explains Jean-Claude Baumer.

The special importance of the BDU succession experts was also emphasized by KfW representative Reinhart Gumlich in his presentation: Of the current 792 regional partners, the 16 BDU regional partners supported around one in ten of the published offers and almost one sixth of the published applications in the first half of 2015. In terms of placements, 7.6 percent of total placements were attributable to BDU regional partners.