Business sale and succession
Selling your business is the most important entrepreneurial decision of your life.
So that your company lives on in the right hands. And your employees have a future. I support you personally, from our first conversation until the purchase price has been paid.
Mathias Westerbarkei
Your contact
Free of charge and without obligation.
No one finds out until you decide.
Your company’s value
What is a company in your industry worth?
Buyers usually pay a multiple of annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation, or EBITDA for short. Choose your industry and enter your EBITDA. You will see an initial range straight away, explained in one sentence.
Where your company sits within this range depends on size, customers, margin and succession. We will work this out in confidence during the initial consultation.
Example: for EBITDA of €400,000, enter 0.4. Your input stays in your browser.
Typical range, multiple of EBITDA
In this industry, buyers typically pay 3.5 to 7.0 times annual EBITDA.
€3.5 to €7.0 million
Value of your company at €1.0 million EBITDA
Bank debt and similar obligations are deducted from this, and cash balances are added. The result is roughly the price you receive.
Our own calculation based on listed comparable companies, after a discount for private mid-sized companies, as of October 2026.
What you can expect
One point of contact
Not three junior advisers, no conflict of interest. Someone who listens and has led transactions himself.
Smaller companies welcome
From around €1 million to €100 million in enterprise value. Smaller mandates that other M&A advisers turn down are expressly welcome here.
Confidential to the end
I protect your name as I would my own. You decide who finds out, and when.
Your adviser
Mathias Westerbarkei
Former Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at CLAAS. There he led earnings improvement programmes worth around €100 million, several of them with consulting teams from McKinsey, BCG and Roland Berger. He then became CFO of DTS IT AG. Since 2017 he has worked alongside owner-managed companies.
Member of the German M&A association (Bundesverband Mergers & Acquisitions gem. e.V.), valuation working group.
10+
transactions completed
20 years
at CLAAS and Goldbeck
€600 million
revenue of the largest transaction under his responsibility
Track record
Selected transactions by Mathias Westerbarkei
Sale of Gerry Weber Halle 29 to Zech Group
€36 million, asset deal (transfer of assets), fashion and real estate.
Sale of CLAAS Fertigungstechnik to MBB Industries AG
Over €100 million in revenue, share deal (transfer of shares), automotive.
Sale of Brötje-Automation to Deutsche Beteiligungs AG
Over €100 million in revenue, share deal (transfer of shares), aviation.
Process
How the sale works
- 01Initial consultationFree of charge, confidential and without obligation. You decide whether the chemistry is right.
- 02Valuation and preparationAnalysis, valuation and professional sale documents.
- 03Approaching buyersTargeted and confidential. You decide who receives information.
- 04Negotiation and the buyer’s due diligenceWe protect your interests through to the sale and purchase agreement.
- 05CompletionShares are only transferred once payment of the purchase price is secured.
Not quite there yet? The Sale Readiness Check shows how ready for sale your company is: ten questions, about five minutes, free of charge and without registration.
More value. Whether you sell or not.
With AI Value Creation we unlock more EBITDA and more enterprise value. Our self-learning AI system analyses your data and processes and usually shows the first quick wins on day one. Only what shows up in the profit and loss account and the balance sheet counts.
For owners, private equity firms and family offices. And the best preparation, should you decide to sell later.
Contact
Ready for a conversation?
Write to me about what is on your mind. I will get back to you within 24 hours.
Or put your questions to Claudia, our AI assistant, in advance.
Claudia runs on our own hardware in Germany and currently answers in German. No external AI providers, no permanent storage. You decide whether the conversation is forwarded to Mathias Westerbarkei.