ValueTrust released the 14th edition of the DACH Capital Market Study, which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our Study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of twelve sectors for the DACH region using different methods.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 13th edition of the European Capital Market Study, which is released on a semi-annual basis.

In our study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of ten sectors for Europe using different methods.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

On November 22, 2023, subsequent to the successful takeover offer in 2022 and the conclusion of the delisting offer in 2023, Atlantic BidCo GmbH (“Atlantic BidCo”) informed Aareal Bank AG (“Aareal Bank”) about its intention to initiate a squeeze out under sec. 327a of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG). The squeeze out marks the final step in the taking private process of Aareal Bank. Atlantic BidCo currently holds c. 95.5% of Aareal Bank shares.

In this context, ValueTrust acted as valuation expert to the executive board of Atlantic BidCo to determine the reasonable compensation according to sec. 327a of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG).

On March 13, 2024, Schaeffler and Vitesco entered into a merger agreement, following the approval of their respective Supervisory Boards. The agreement sets out the legally binding terms and conditions for the merger of Vitesco Technologies Group AG (“Vitesco”) into Schaeffler AG (“Schaeffler”). The previously published preliminary exchange ratio of 5 to 57 was confirmed as binding in the signed agreement. Thus, Vitesco shareholders will receive 11.4 Schaeffler shares in exchange for one Vitesco share.

In October 2023 and before entering into the merger agreement, Schaeffler announced its intention to make a voluntary public tender offer to the shareholders of Vitesco for all outstanding shares and to, following the acquisition of the tendered shares, merge Vitesco into Schaeffler. As part of the tender offer, Schaeffler entered into qualified non-tendering agreements with two of its parent companies that correspond to a shareholding of 49.9% in Vitesco. Until the end of the acceptance period, the tender offer was accepted for 29.9% of Vitesco’s share capital. In January 2024, Schaeffler purchased a further 9.0% of Vitesco’s share capital from BofA Securities Europe S.A. As a result, Schaeffler holds a 38.9% stake in Vitesco as of today. The Annual General Meetings of Schaeffler and Vitesco resolving on the planned merger are scheduled for the end of April 2024.

Against this background, ValueTrust was engaged as joint valuation expert to assess the appropriate exchange ratio of the shares of Schaeffler and Vitesco in the context of the planned merger and to provide a comprehensive expert opinion.

Reflecting on a challenging year 2023 with volatile markets and structural changes in the business and political landscape, we are pleased to have supported our clients in navigating demanding corporate situations, leveraging our extensive range of financial advisory expertise.

Attached are selected highlight projects within our service portfolio, including the first-time application of the StaRUG in a public case.

The Essen restructuring court confirmed the financial restructuring plan of GERRY WEBER International AG in accordance with the provisions of StaRUG; the confirmation has taken legal effect on November 9, 2023. According to the planned financial restructuring, a delisting and full capital decrease is intended, followed by a cash capital increase by the new restructuring investor. The envisaged financial restructuring will lead to the withdrawal of all existing shareholders in accordance with StaRUG. The refinancing on the debt side shall include partly an economic prolongation and partly the waiver of claims against GERRY WEBER. The refinancing will allow the new debt investors to receive a contractual return on the level of the new restructuring investor in addition to their loan claims. Through the planned refinancing, GERRY WEBER will be significantly deleveraged, the imminent illiquidity will be eliminated and the financing will be secured until 2027.

Against this background, ValueTrust was engaged as an independent financial advisor to render a Fairness Opinion.

ValueTrust Article in Corporate Finance, 09-10/2023: DVFA Grundsätze für die Erstellung
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ValueTrust released the 13th edition of the DACH Capital Market Study, which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our Study, we highlight the capital market developments over the first half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of twelve sectors for the DACH region using different methods.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 12th edition of the European Capital Market Study, which is released on a semi-annual basis.

In our study, we highlight the capital market developments over the first half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of ten sectors for Europe using different methods.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

In March 2023, LEONI AG announced its financial restructuring plan in accordance with the provisions of StaRUG. The financial restructuring comprises a delisting and full capital decrease followed by a cash capital increase by a holding company L2. Furthermore, parts of revolving credit facilities and promissory note claims against LEONI are assigned to L2 and are contributed to LEONI’s capital reserve by waiver of claims. Current claimholders receive a 45% economic equity participation in LEONI without actual shareholding through a virtual profit participation note. The financial restructuring leads to the withdrawal of all existing shareholders in accordance with StaRUG. In this way, LEONI will be deleveraged by EUR 708 m and receive EUR 150 m in additional liquidity through the capital increase.

Against this background, ValueTrust was engaged as an independent financial advisor to render a Fairness Opinion to assess whether the Consideration fully compensates L2 in the meaning of § 27 StaRUG.

Find the entire announcement here.

Due to the increasing relevance of fairness opinions in the context of corporate transactions we have published the below article, that gives an overview of the use cases of fairness opinions and the new DVFA standards.

In its decision dated November 7, 2022, the Higher Regional Court of Duesseldorf, Germany reversed the previous decision of the Regional Court of Cologne, Germany in the appraisal proceedings regarding the squeeze-out of minority shareholders of Gerling-Konzern Allgemeine Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft. In its decision, HRC Duesseldorf cited ValueTrust’s expert opinion multiple times and ruled that an increase of the exit compensation was not required.

Find the entire announcement here.

We are pleased that the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has confirmed the decisions of the Regional and Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt with regard to the compensation and guaranteed dividend determined by ValueTrust for the conclusion of a domination agreement between TLG Immobilien AG and WCM Beteiligungs- und Grundbesitz Aktiengesellschaft in 2017.

The BGH held that the stock prices of both companies were itself suitable to confirm the adequacy of the compensation determined by ValueTrust. Minority shareholders cannot claim the application of the valuation method leading to their most favourable result. The decision is in line with the DVFA Best practice recommendations for company valuations under which different valuation methods should be applied equally and potential differences in the valuation results as well as pros and cons of the relevant methods should be addressed transparently.

Furthermore, the Court approved the method applied by ValueTrust to determine the guaranteed dividend with reference to an article in the Corporate Finance magazine published by Dennis Muxfeld et al., Director of ValueTrust, in 2016. While in practice simplified approaches for derivation of the annuity rate applied for the calculation of the guaranteed dividend were common, ValueTrust considered the individual risk of the domination agreement, which leads to more accurate results.

Find the article as download here.

ValueTrust presents the 2023 revised version of the guidelines for the preparation of fairness opinions by the Expert Group “fairness opinion” of Society of Investment Professionals in Germany (DVFA). The guidelines have been prepared under the direction of Professor Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management and co-chair Prof. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director of ValueTrust. The expert group consists of experienced members with legal and economic M&A background. Dennis Muxfeld, Director of ValueTrust participated in the expert group. 

Find the entire version of the guidelines for the preparation of fairness opinions by DVFA here. 

We are pleased to present the 2023 edition of the German Takeover Report, which was created and published in cooperation with ValueTrust and finexpert.

The report covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2022 according to the German takeover code WpÜG and provides among others comprehensive information on relevant variables such as bid types, premia offered, market reaction of targets’ and (if available) on bidders’ stock prices.

Find the entire report as download here.

ValueTrust released the 11th edition of the European Capital Market Study, which is released on a semi-annual basis.

In our study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2022 and further analyze the cost of capital of ten sectors for Europe using different methods.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 12th edition of the DACH Capital Market Study, which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our Study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2022 and further analyze the cost of capital of twelve sectors for the DACH region using different methods.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to Exceet in context of the contribution in kind from APEX

exceet Group SCA, Luxemburg/Luxemburg acquired all shares in APEX Energy Teterow GmbH, Teterow/Germany in a purchase process with two parallel transaction steps. In the first step, Exceet acquired 20.8% of the shares in APEX for around EUR 25m in cash. In the second step, the remaining 79.2% of the shares were contributed to Exceet at a notional price of approx. EUR 95m against the issuance of 16.3m new shares. The existing APEX shareholders – companies associated with the Atlan Family Office as well as members of the management and other minority shareholders – became new shareholders of Exceet. ValueTrust served as an independent financial advisor and provided a valuation memorandum as to the equity value of APEX in the context of the transaction.

Find the entire announcement here.

ParkView Partners, member of  PVT Financial Advisors SE, acts as exclusive financial advisor to va-Q-tec AG [ISIN: DE0006636681 / WKN: 663668] (“VQT”), a company listed on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, on its strategic partnership with and taking private by EQT Private Equity. The transaction will be implemented by way of a voluntary public takeover offer by EQT Private Equity. ParkView Partners has also provided a fairness opinion to the Management Board and Supervisory Board of VQT.

On 13 December 2022, VQT entered into a business combination agreement with EQT Private Equity in relation to a voluntary public takeover offer by EQT Private Equity and the terms and conditions of a strategic partnership. EQT Private Equity announced, with the support of co-investors Mubadala and Cinven, its intention to submit a voluntary public takeover offer to the shareholders of VQT at an offer price of EUR 26.00 per share, representing a premium of 98% in relation to the 3-month VWAP until 9 December 2022.

Subject to, inter alia, the review of the offer document still to be published by EQT Private Equity, VQT’s Management Board and Supervisory Board support the takeover offer.

For further information: https://bit.ly/3V0cbfE

Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf entirely follows ValueTrust’s expert opinions rendered in the appraisal proceedings regarding the squeeze-out of minority shareholders of AXA Konzern AG.

In its decision dated June 20, 2022, the Higher Regional Court of Duesseldorf, Germany reversed the previous decision of the Regional Court of Cologne, Germany in the appraisal proceedings regarding the squeeze-out of minority shareholders of AXA Konzern AG. In its decision, HRC Duesseldorf cited ValueTrust’s expert opinions multiple times and ruled that an increase of the exit compensation was not required.

Find the entire announcement here.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to ADTRAN Holdings and ADVA on the Domination and Profit or Loss Transfer Agreement

ADTRAN Holdings, Inc. and ADVA Optical Networking SE have concluded a domination and profit or loss transfer agreement (“DPLTA”) following the voluntary public takeover offer whereby ADTRAN Holdings acquired approx. 65% of ADVA’s shares.

ValueTrust acted as valuation expert to the executive boards of ADTRAN Holdings and ADVA as to determine the reasonable compensation and the reasonable recurring compensation payment according to sec. 305 and 304 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG).

Find the entire announcement here.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust) is co-editor of the “Yearbook of Company Valuation 2022“.

Please find further information here.

ParkView Partners, member of  PVT Financial Advisors SE, has assisted listed German Muehlhan AG (ISIN DE000A0KD0F7; WKN A0KD0F) (“Muehlhan”) on a complex transaction regarding the sale of its European and U.S. subsidiaries to private equity investor One Equity Partners.

On September 24, 2022, Muehlhan announced the sale of its companies in Germany, Denmark, France, Cyprus/Greece, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway, the Netherlands and the U.S., including their respective subsidiaries and branch offices. In total, these entities had a combined revenue of €191 million in 2021 with around 1,700 employees. Muehlhan will retain its subsidiaries in Russia, India, Canada, the Bahamas and the Middle East.

For further information: https://hubs.la/Q01nrX4t0

Our colleagues from ParkView Partners, has assisted listed German Muehlhan AG (“Muehlhan”) on a complex transaction regarding the sale of its European and U.S. subsidiaries to private equity investor One Equity Partners.

On September 24, 2022, Muehlhan announced the sale of its companies in Germany, Denmark, France, Cyprus/Greece, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway, the Netherlands and the U.S., including their respective subsidiaries and branch offices. In total, these entities had a combined revenue of €191 million in 2021 with around 1,700 employees. Muehlhan will retain its subsidiaries in Russia, India, Canada, the Bahamas and the Middle East.

For further information:
https://hubs.la/Q01nrX4t0

ValueTrust brings 73 Strings’ digital valuation solution to Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Within the scope of collaboration with 73 Strings, ValueTrust will introduce 73 Strings’ digital valuation solution to clients in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

The combination of 73 Strings‘ leading semi-automated valuation product QUBIT X and ValueTrust‘s financial expertise creates a one-stop shop for all valuation requirements, and our integrated approach to testing, onboarding, training and ongoing support ensures a highly efficient and sustainable valuation solution.

Find the entire announcement here.

ValueTrust released the tenth edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2022), which is released on a semi-annual basis. In our study, we analyze the relevant parameters to calculate cost of capital, determine implied as well as historical market and sector returns and derive the unlevered cost of equity based on 10 different sectors.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the eleventh edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2022), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

In its decision dated June 22, 2022, the Regional Court Munich I dismissed the applications for the determination of a higher exit compensation in the appraisal proceedings regarding the squeeze-out of the minority shareholders of HypoVereinsbank AG by UniCredit S.p.A..

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders and Benno Jacke of ValueTrust as court-appointed experts were commissioned to render a valuation report and to testify as expert witnesses in court hearings in the context of the appraisal proceedings.

According to the ValueTrust database, the case of the squeeze-out of HVB’s minority shareholders represents the largest first-instance court decision on structural measures pursuant to the German Stock Corporation Act.

Find the entire announcement here.

The 25th Arab-German Business Forum will take place in Berlin from June 21-23, 2022.

Gobal leaders and high ranking panelists are adressing global challenges and perspectives in panel discussions, roundtables and workshops.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director at ValueTrust and ParkView Partners and board member of Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be panelist in the discussion themed “Finance and Investment Possibilities: capital venture, FinTech and NFTs”.

For further information and registration to the event visit the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e.V. website.

Yesterday, the 24th Münchner M&A Forum took place, whereby ValueTrust acted as sponsor. Dr. Cai Berg, Senior Managing Director at ParkView, explained the framework conditions for the influence of hedge funds on takeovers in his introductory lecture, followed by a lively panel discussion, chaired by Senior Managing Director Prof. Dr. Christian Aders.

Please find the video recording as well as a short presentation on the organiser’s website. We look forward to next time!

Wir freuen uns, den German Takeover Report 2022 (8. Ausgabe) vorstellen zu können, der in Zusammenarbeit mit ValueTrust und finexpert erstellt und veröffentlicht wurde.

Der Bericht deckt alle Übernahmeangebote und Delisting-Angebote des Jahres 2021 ab und liefert umfangreiche Informationen über relevante Variablen wie Angebotsarten, angebotene Prämien, Marktreaktionen des Targets und Aktienkurse des Bieters. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht unsere umfangreiche Datenbank den Vergleich der Vorjahreswerte dieser Variablen mit dem gleitenden Durchschnitt der vorangegangenen Jahre und damit die Darstellung von Trends und langfristigen Entwicklungen.

Zusätzlich enthält dieser Bericht eine ausführliche Analyse der Fairness Opinions sowie des Managements und des Aufsichtsrats der Zielgesellschaft, was eine detaillierte Analyse der Beziehung zwischen diesen Faktoren und der Reaktion des Aktienkurses der Zielgesellschaft sowie der Erfolgsquote des Übernahmeangebots ermöglicht.

Laden Sie den Bericht herunter, indem Sie unten auf das blaue Symbol klicken.

We are pleased to announce the German Takeover Report 2022 (8th edition), which was created and published in cooperation with ValueTrust and finexpert.

The report covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2021 and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and bidder’s stock prices. In addition, our extensive database allows to compare last year’s figures of these variables against the moving average of the preceding years and thus to highlight trends and long-term developments. Furthermore, this report contains an extensive analysis of fairness opinions and management and supervisory board of the target company, allowing for a detailed analysis of the relationship of these factors upon target stock price reaction and success rates of the takeover bid.

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On October 26, 2021, CTP announced its intention to acquire Deutsche Industrie REIT-AG (today Deutsche Industrie Grundbesitz AG; “DIG“) through a public tender offer with a subsequent cross-border merger. The combined company will be one of the largest players in the European logistics real estate market. Until the end of the acceptance period, the offer was accepted for approx. 80% of DIG’s shares. Following this transaction, the Management Boards of CTP and DIG intend to merge DIG into CTP. The merger agreement needs the approval by extraordinary shareholder meetings of CTP and DIG to be hold in June 2022.

In this context, ValueTrust has been retained as Valuation Expert to determine the adequate exchange ratio between the DIG shares to be transferred to CTP against the issuance of new CTP shares according to Sec. 122c UmwG and the adequate cash compensation for DIG shareholders according to Sec. 122i UmwG. For this purpose ValueTrust provided a valuation of CTP and DIG in accordance with the valuation standard of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW S1) as well as “Best Practice Recommendations Corporate Valuation” of the expert group “Corporate Transactions and Valuation” of the Society of Investment Professionals in Germany (DVFA e.V.).

Find the entire announcement here

On March 29, 2022 Formycon AG and ATHOS KG have agreed to merge their development activities in the area of biosimilars through a long-term strategic partnership.

This will involve Formycon in acquiring rights for two biosimilar candidates and the operational development unit Bioeq GmbH by way of contribution in kind. The total transaction value of the acquired assets cumulatively amounts to approx. EUR 650 million. The payment of the purchase prices is to be partly financed by newly issued Formycon shares at a notional value of EUR 83.41 per new Formycon share and partly with royalty payments to ATHOS. Formycon expects to create key enablers for further expanding its position as a company operating on the global stage in the growth market for biosimilars.

In the context of this transaction, ValueTrust provided a Fairness Opinion to the management board of Formycon in accordance with the valuation standard of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW S8). ValueTrust assessed the appropriateness of the determined transaction prices for the objects of the contribution as well as the notional value of the new Formycon shares. As part of its work, ValueTrust performed business plan and KPI analyses, in-depth market analysis and performed a Monte Carlo simulation analysis. ValueTrust also performed a business valuation for Formycon to assess whether the value of the newly issued shares is fair from a financial point of view.

Find the entire announcement here

On May 10, 2022, the 24th Münchner M&A Forum will take place on the topic of “Influence of Hedge Funds on Public Takeovers”, which ValueTrust is supporting also this year as a sponsoring member of the Munich M&A Forum e.V. The Münchner M&A Forum offers a platform for lectures and discussions on current economic and legal developments and their impact on M&A transactions to managers of companies, law firms, consulting firms, civil courts and public administration.

Find all information about the event on the Website of the Münchner M&A Forum.

ValueTrust released the tenth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2021), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the ninth edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2021), which is released on a semi-annual basis. In our study, we analyze the relevant parameters to calculate cost of capital, determine implied as well as historical market and sector returns and derive the unlevered cost of equity based on 10 different sectors.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

The energy transition is a major challenge for the expansion of energy generation from renewable energy sources, the expansion of the power grid infrastructure, and the storage of energy, since energy generation from renewable sources is more fluctuating and decentralized than from conventional power plants.

In the January issue of CFOaktuell, Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, elaborates on the role of cost of capital (CoC) in facilitating the energy transition.

Find the entire article as download here.

On November 3, 2021 the extraordinary general meeting of RIB Software SE (“RIB”) resolved on the Squeeze Out of the remaining minority shareholders of RIB under sec. 327a of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG). The cash compensation offered by Schneider Electric Investment AG (“Schneider Electric”) for the transfer of the remaining shares amounts to EUR 41.72 per share.

ValueTrust acted as valuation expert to Schneider Electric to determine the cash compensation according to sec. 327b AktG. In this context, ValueTrust reviewed and analyzed the RIB business plan and other material information and provided a valuation of RIB in accordance with the valuation standard of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW S1) as well as “Best Practice Recommendations Corporate Valuation“ of the expert group “Corporate Transactions and Valuations” of the  Society of Investment Professionals in Germany (DVFA). Additionally, ValueTrust determined the value of and the compensation for the outstanding options of the ongoing stock option plans of RIB.

On July 21, 2021 subsequently to the public takeover offer in 2018 and the delisting offer in 2019, Warwick Holding GmbH (“Warwick”) has requested a Squeeze Out under sec. 327a of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) as the final step of the taking private process of VTG AG (“VTG”).
In this context, ValueTrust acted as valuation expert to the executive board of Warwick as to determine the cash compensation according to sec. 327b AktG.

ValueTrust released the ninth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2021), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna and finexpert.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

ParkView Partners, member of ValueTrust Group, acts as exclusive financial advisor to CANCOM SE, a company listed on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and member of the MDAX, on the strategic review and divestiture of its operations in UK and Ireland.

On July 28, 2021 CANCOM announced the divestiture of CANCOM UK&I to Telefónica Cybersecurity & Cloud Tech, S.L.U., an affiliate of Telefónica S.A. The transaction follows a strategic review announced on 25 May, 2021. The transaction values CANCOM UK&I at an Enterprise Value of close to EUR 400 million, which corresponds to a transaction multiple of c. 16x (Enterprise Value/EBITDA) – valuing CANCOM UK&I at a significant premium to CANCOM’s own trading multiple.

ValueTrust released the eighth edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2021), which is released on a semi-annual basis. In our study, we show cost of equity for ten different sectors according to four different methodologies as well as valuation levels for the former.

ValueTrust was engaged by EQT to serve as an independent financial advisor and to provide a strategic value analysis of Anticimex.

Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, has published the article „Implication of Business Judgement Rule in context of company acquisitions“ in the journal CFOaktuell (05/2021).

The Business Judgement Rule, which has long been known in the USA as a liability-limiting regulation, has been enshrined in law in Germany and Austria for some years now. However, in the case of major business decisions, especially company acquisitions, the amount of information and analysis required to exempt the board from liability is much more extensive than is usually assumed.

Please find the full article as download.

CORPORATE FINANCE 01-02/2021: Article by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (ValueTrust), Prof. Dr. Schwetzler (HHL Leipzig) and Renata Lavrova (ValueTrust) on the topic “Taking Private in Deutschland: Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA)”.

On March 24, 2021 the Webinar “(Direct) Private Investments in Public Companies (PIPE) in Germany” took place, which was organized in cooperation with Ghorfa and was part of the virtual M&A sessions by White & Case.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director at ValueTrust and ParkView, and Christopher Buhlmann, Managing Director at ParkView, were part of the webinar, discussing the German equity market, analyzing the different structures of PIPE transactions and explaining recent examples of such transactions.

More information about ValueTrust´s and ParkView´s contribution can be found in the presentation for download.

On December 9, 2020, Unzer GmbH (“Unzer”), a German fintech company founded as Heidelpay GmbH and backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”), announced the acquisition of Lavego AG (“Lavego”), an electronic-cash network provider based in Munich, Germany. The purchase price for Lavego is going to be settled by way of a cash payment and a share swap.

ValueTrust was engaged by KKR and Unzer to serve as an independent financial advisor, by providing a fairness opinion on the adequacy of the exchange ratio offered for Lavego shares. Subject to customary regulatory approval, the deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2021.

ValueTrust was engaged by Leoni AG to provide an independent valuation opinion on the financial fairness of the price offered by a consortium of buyers for Leoni Schweiz AG, Switzerland. Leoni Schweiz AG is the holding company of Leoni Studer AG, a specialist in high-quality cables and wires for complex applications in the industrial and infrastructure sectors.

finexpert and ValueTrust present the seventh edition of the German Takeover Report. It covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2020 according to the German takeover code WpÜG and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and (if available) on bidder’s stock prices.

This report contains a detailed description of the takeover of ISRA Vision by Atlas Copco. ValueTrust has provided a fairness opinion to the management board and the supervisory board of ISRA Vision. ParkView Partners has acted as financial advisor to the management board of ISRA during the entire takeover process.

On March 24, 2021, the webinar “(Direct) Private Investments in Public Companies (PIPE) in Germany” will take place, which is part of the virtual M&A sessions by White & Case. Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director at ValueTrust and ParkView, and Christopher Buhlmann, Director at ParkView, will lead the session together with Dr. Murad M. Daghles, Partner at White & Case.

To attend, please register at the following link: https://news.whitecase.com

ValueTrust released the eighth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2020), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna and finexpert.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions, which is paramount in the current uncertain economic environment. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

On December 21, 2020 Kublai GmbH, an affiliate of funds managed and advised by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Inc. and part of Morgan Stanley’s global private infrastructure investment platform, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, announced its decision to submit a voluntary public takeover offer at EUR 3.25 per Tele Columbus share. The corresponding offer document has been published on February 1, 2021.

ValueTrust released the seventh edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2020), which is publicated on a semi-annual basis. In our European Capital Market study, we show cost of equity for ten different sectors according to four different methodologies.

We are excited to announce that ValueTrust has established a subsidiary in Switzerland to further develop our Swiss market operations from Zurich.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director: “The foundation of ValueTrust Financial Advisors Switzerland AG marks an important milestone of our growth strategy in the DACH region. With successful projects such as the public fairness opinion for Sunrise Communications Group in connection with the acquisition by Liberty Global, Switzerland has always been an important market for our Valuation and Financial Advisory Services. Creating a local footprint will allow us to work even more closely with existing and new clients in the future.”

The Zurich office is ValueTrust’s fourth location after Munich, Frankfurt and Vienna. It is headed by Benedikt Brambs, who has extensive international expertise in Strategic & Financial Advisory.

Benedikt Brambs, Director: “We see great potential for independent and high-quality financial advisory services, driven by an emerging public discussion about conflicts of interest of established consultants as well as directors’ and officers’ liability risks. ValueTrust is an attractive alternative in the consulting market, and we look forward to offering our services locally in Switzerland.

ValueTrust has been engaged by the Regional Court of Cologne to act as a court appointed valuation expert in the appraisal proceeding (“Spruchverfahren”) in context of the conclusion of the domination and profit/loss transfer agreement (“DPLTA”) between Deutsche Bank and Postbank in 2012.

In its decision of November 11, 2020 the Regional Court of Cologne based the compensation and guaranteed dividend on the fair market value determined by ValueTrust and fully approved the valuation results.

On December 7, 2020 the Webinar “FDI regulations – The impact of the pandemic on deal-making” took place, which was organized in cooperation with Ghorfa – the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e.V. and was part of the virtual M&A sessions by White & Case.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director at ValueTrust and ParkView, and Christopher Buhlmann, Director at ParkView, were part of the webinar, discussing new opportunities for Arabic investors in the context of Foreign Direct Investment Regulations.

More information about ValueTrust´s and ParkView´s contribution can be found in the presentation for download.

While the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic is causing the German economy to hold its breath, a new restructuring law is expected to come into effect on January 1, 2021, otherwise known as the “The Further Development of the Restructuring and Insolvency Law“. The draft bill contains various new regulations, which are intended to enable the reorganization of companies outside the insolvency process, particularly in the event of an impending insolvency.

In this context, ValueTrust supports with independent Fairness Opinions and full scope Valuation Reports according to the recommendations of the IDW or DVFA.

For further information on the new regulations of the restructuring law and the services that ValueTrust provides, please download our flyer.

ValueTrust is Sponsor of the 23nd Arab-German Business Forum which is organized by the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e.V., together with high-profile partners, from October 26 to 28, 2020 in Berlin.

Many global leaders and high-ranking panelists will address the challenges the pandemic has brought about and discuss how economic cooperation can overcome them. The event will provide a unique stage to initiate promising business perspectives and intensify existing economic ties between Germany and the Arab world.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director at ValueTrust, will give an overview of the topic “Post Covid19 investment opportunities and challenges in Germany” within the panel Finance, Investment and Know-How Transfer.

Find more information about the Arab-German Business Forum at https://business.ghorfa.de/

The presentation of Prof. Dr. Christian Aders can be downloaded here.

ValueTrust released the seventh edition of the DACH Capital Market Study (Version: June 30, 2020), which was created and published by ValueTrust in cooperation with the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the JKU Linz and finexpert.

In our DACH Capital Market Study valuation parameters and cost of equity are derived in a comprehensive manner to provide a sound basis for investment decisions, even more relevant than usual in the current volatile economic environment.

ValueTrust provided IPO and exit readiness advice to KKR-backed HENSOLDT AG on its successful IPO.

On September 25, HENSOLDT AG shares began trading on the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. With the tailwinds from the successful IPO, KKR-backed HENSOLDT will make a big step to further strengthen its position as Europe’s leading, platform-independent provider of defence and security sensor solutions with global reach.

Since the last three-and-a-half years ValueTrust is a trusted financial advisor to HENSOLDT providing IPO and exit readiness advice to the CFO and management in offering hands-on, on-site support throughout all IPO phases and performing a comprehensive financial planning process review including a KPI steering analysis. In addition, we constantly provide financial advisory and valuation advice to HENSOLDT, e.g. in supporting the annual impairment test, performing purchase price allocations, and providing company valuations for manifold purposes.

Further information on the IPO can be found here.

Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, has published the article „European cost of capital and valuation levels in the Covid 19 crisis as a basis for substantiated investment decisions“ in the journal M&A Review (10/2020).

As a result of the Covid 19 crisis, the prime rate fell almost continuously in the first half of 2020, reaching a historic low of 0.06%. At the same time, the capital markets – despite a significant recovery since the beginning of the crisis – remain highly volatile, which also leads to strong movements in terms of implicit cost of capital and market risk premium.

Especially in volatile times, as we currently find them, it makes sense to substantiate investment decisions by applying several valuation methods. Due to the volatility on the capital markets, the use of longer-term averages (e.g. for implied cost of capital, the market risk premium or multipliers) represents a possible alternative to reporting date values.

Please find the full article here or as download.

ValueTrust supports a fund-raising campaign initiated by the Healthcare Federation of Ghana (HFG) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The HFG, which aims at ensuring improved access to quality healthcare in Ghana, through private sector involvement, has initiated a fund-raising campaign to get a COVID-19 LIS (Lab Information System) for the public testing labs in Ghana. The number of recorded infections in Ghana is doubling every month and is the third highest in Africa. The LIS by HFG will have a tremendous multiplier effect by providing 30 million people with sustainable capacity to manage the COVID-19 pandemic, by processing and managing the huge volume of testing and contact-tracing undertaken by Ghana Health Services.

ValueTrust is proud to be a part of this fantastic project by the Healthcare Federation of Ghana.

More information about the Healthcare Federation of Ghana and their impressive work can be found here.

ValueTrust released the sixth edition of the European Capital Market Study (Version: June 30, 2020), which uniquely analyzes the relevant cost of capital parameters and multiples for the European capital market on an aggregated level.

ValueTrust acts as independent Fairness Opinion provider to Sunrise Communications Group AG on the voluntary public takeover offer of UPC Schweiz GmbH.

ValueTrust was engaged to provide an independent public Fairness Opinion to the Board of Directors of Sunrise in accordance with the requirements of the Swiss Takeover Board (Übernahmekommission).

As part of the “Qatari-German Business and Investment Cooperation Webinar” held on August 20, 2020 and organized by Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Qatar Chamber of Commerce & Industry, more than 300 participants discussed business and investment opportunities in Qatar.

The representatives from Qatar also mentioned that Qatar will invest 10 billion dollars into Germany and will broaden its focus towards Germany’s dense network of small- and medium-sized firms known as the “Mittelstand”, as announced in 2018.

Next to other renowned speakers, Prof. Dr. Christian Aders, Senior Managing Director ValueTrust and ParkView, gave a statement on “Post Covid-19 investment opportunities and challenges in Germany”.

Please find detailed information here.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to the executive board of Nidda Healthcare GmbH in context of the squeeze-out of STADA Arzneimittel AG.

ValueTrust was engaged to provide an expert opinion to determine the company value of STADA Arzneimittel AG and the reasonable bandwidths of the cash compensation for the minority shareholders.

Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, has published the article „Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on cost of capital and valuation levels in Europe“ in the journal CFOaktuell (05/2020).

The COVID 19 crisis does not only have significant influence on human interaction, but also on the economic situation. The massive distortions on the stock markets have led to lower valuation levels and hence to a change in implicit cost of capital and valuation parameters across Europe. Decision-makers should take these new conditions into account when performing – now increasingly necessary – goodwill impairment tests and also include them in the assessment of investment opportunities in order to make well-founded investment decisions.

Please find the full article as download.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust and ParkView) is co-editor of the Yearbook of Company Valuation 2020.
To ensure that company values can be determined reliably and with legal certainty, the Yearbook of Company Valuation 2020 provides relevant expert publications and valuation figures from 2019, a compact overview of the current focal points of company valuation and a comprehensive insight into the discussions between theoretical research and valuation practice.

For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/3hRYv40

ValueTrust was engaged by the Executive and Supervisory Board of  ISARIA Wohnbau AG as an independent Valuation Expert to provide a fairness opinion on the fairness of the consideration offered by Deutsche Wohnen SE from a financial point of view. The Fairness Opinion included an Opinion Letter according to DVFA Standards.

Given the current COVID-19 crisis ValueTrust released the fifth edition of the European Capital Market Study (Version: March 31, 2020) in order to give decision-makers guidelines with regard to current valuation parameters.

Scenario analysis and simulation-based corporate planning as a solid basis for business decisions.

In face of the global SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, companies in Germany can apply for state-backed liquidity funding with their existing lenders and/or the KfW. We support our mandates during this process with an “Independent Business Review” (IBR).

More details can be found in our IBR presentation.

ValueTrust provides a public Fairness Opinion to the Management Board and the Supervisory Board of ISRA VISION AG in the context of the voluntary public takeover offer to all ISRA VISION shareholders by Atlas Copco AB.

The joint statement of the management and supervisory board of by ISRA VISION and Atlas Copco is available as download.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the Johannes Kepler University Linz released the sixth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust released the fourth edition of the ValueTrust European Capital Market Study, which uniquely analyzes the relevant parameters for the European capital market on an aggregated level.

finexpert and ValueTrust present the sixth edition of the German Takeover Report. The report covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2019 according to the German takeover code WpÜG and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and (if available) on bidder’s stock prices.

ParkView Partners, a member of ValueTrust, acts as sole financial advisor to ISRA VISION AG on its strategic partnership with Atlas Copco AB via a EUR 1.1 bn public tender offer by Atlas Copco AB.

For more information, please download the press release.

“Corporate M&A: Key success factors of acquisitions” was the overarching theme of the 5th annual New Year’s Reception hosted by ValueTrust on February 6, 2020.

The event brought together over 100 business executives and financial, strategic and legal advisors to enjoy a pleasant networking event at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich. The participants had a good opportunity to meet excellent speakers like Prof. Dr. Michael Wolff, Dr. Günter von Au, Bernhard Meising, Dr. Eric Fellhauer and Dr. Cai Berg, to expand their network and exchange views on current industry developments.

Get more Information about the event at www.value-trust.com/newyearsreception 

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust and ParkView Partners) hielt an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation” einen Gastvortrag zum Thema “Pay for performance – Was ist Performance?”.

List of publications 2020 of Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust).

In cooperation with finexpert and HHL we present the 1st issue of the German Takeover & Endgame Report 2019.

The report gives a thorough empirical overview over the entire process of a takeover under German law starting from the offer bid over the acceptance period and completion to the “endgame” of structural measures reaching the 100% ownership in the target company.

ValueTrust Event on November 14, 2019 in Vienna. Dr. Ralf Wiegert (IHS Markit), Dr. Bernhard Rieder (DORDA Rechtsanwälte), Prof. Dr. Ewald Aschauer (JKU Linz) and Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (ValueTrust) gave presentation on “Tangible capital measures in the context of M&A and restructuring“. The event took place in cooperation with the Vienna Stock Exchange, JKU Linz and CIRA. Are you interested in the presentation documents? Please feel free to write us at events@value-trust.com.

ValueTrust was announced as independent expert for four closing conditions (MAC clauses) in the course of the public takeover offer of PNE AG by Photon Management GmbH.

CIRA Annual Conference 2019 on October 16, 2019 in Vienna. The annual conference is regarded as a renowned meeting place for capital market specialists in Austria. Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel (Director, ValueTrust) gave a presentation on “Value enhancement – but how?“.

All information about the conference at www.cira.at

ValueTrust acts as independent Fairness Opinion provider to the management board of SUMMIQ AG on the acquisition of three wind parks in Germany and Italy.

ValueTrust article in Finance Magazine: “Public takeovers: This is how high the takeover premium should be“.

The higher the premium, the more likely that the offer will culminate in a takeover? This is not always the case. These factors play an essential role in the success of a public takeover bid.

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ValueTrust provides a public Fairness Opinion to the Board of Directors of Sunrise in the context of the proposed acquisition of UPC Schweiz by Sunrise Communications Group AG.

All information about the Fairness Opinion can be found here.

Article by HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management on „Index Fund and ETF Ownership and the German Market for Corporate Control“ on the website of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

You can find the HHL Leipzig article here.

On August 29, 2019 the TMA NextGen event took place in Munich. The topic discussed was ” What is the value of a distressed company? – The risk of insolvency as a challenge for company valuation and its influence on future preventive restructuring frameworks “. Mehmet Özbay (Director, ValueTrust), together with Paul Hauschild (Senior Vice President, AlixPartners), gave a presentation on “Valuation of distressed companies”. In another presentation, Simone Schönen (Associated Partner, Noerr LLP) shared insights on “Influence of company valuation on future preventive restructurings”.

Are you interested in the presentations? Please send us an e-mail to info@value-trust.com.

ValueTrust released the latest edition of the ValueTrust European Capital Market Study.

You are interested in our study? Please send us an e-mail to info@value-trust.com.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz released the latest edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert on the proposed transaction between Clariant AG and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC).

CORPORATE FINANCE 07-08/2019: Guest comment by ValueTrust advisory board member Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler (Head of CCTPE and Chair of Financial Management at HHL Leipzig) on “Exchange Traded Funds and the Market for Corporate Control in Germany“.

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CORPORATE FINANCE 07-08/2019: Article by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (ValueTrust), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ballwieser (LMU Munich) and Dr. Andreas Neumeier (Hensoldt Holding GmbH) on the topic “Problems of determining the value in use of young high-tech and other growth companies”.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Managing Director, ValueTrust) is co-editor of the Yearbook of company valuation 2019.

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ValueTrust article in the latest edition of the business magazine SOUQ 2/2019: “Industrialization and know-how transfer – Private Equity as potential deal source and success factors for direct investments within the GAS Region”.

Business and politics met again from June 25th to 27th for the 22nd Arab-German Business Forum in Berlin which had the title “Creating sustainable growth together”. 500 participants and over 60 high-ranking speakers, again reflected the enormous mutual interest in fostering Arab-German business relations. This year ValueTrust was again one of the sponsors and was represented by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Managing Director, ValueTrust) on the panel “Investment and Know-How Transfer“.

ValueTrust is now one of the affiliates of the Valuation Research Group (VRG). VRG is the international affiliates of Valuation Research Corporation (VRC), a leading provider of independent valuation support. As part of the agreement ValueTrust offers business valuation and financial advisory services for executives and investors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH).

More information about VRG at www.vrg.net

ValueTrust article in the CFO aktuell, 5/2019: “Value-based management of holding companies and conglomerates” by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders and Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel.

Dr. Christian Meier (Manager, ValueTrust) gave a guest lecture on the topic “Pay for performance – What is Performance?” as part of the lecture Value-Based Controlling at the University of Passau.

ValueTrust as sponsor of the 22nd Arab-German Business Forum.

ValueTrust will again be sponsor of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V. Business Forum taking place in Berlin from June 25th to 27th. ValueTrust will be represented via Prof. Dr. Christian Aders at the panel “Investment and Know-How Transfer”.

All information on the conference can be found at www.business.ghorfa.de

As a sponsoring member of the Münchner M&A Forum e.V. ValueTrust supported the 22nd Münchner M&A Forum on “Current Legal and Tax Issues in Management Participations“, which took place on May 14, 2019. Also this year, managers from companies, law firms, consulting firms, civil courts and public administration participated and discussed the latest legal developments and their impact on M&A transactions.

All information about the event at www.mma-forum.eu 

The German Takeover Report 2019 has been released.

The fifth issue was created and published in cooperation with ValueTrust and finexpert and covers all takeover bids according to the German takeover code WpÜG of the year 2018 and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and (if available) on bidder’s stock prices.

19th CFO Forum in Stegersbach (Austria): From April 11th to 12th 2019 international top speakers and renowned CEOs and CFOs of the Austrian economy met again to discuss the topic “Value creation in the new data capitalism – the role of the CFO as Chief Future Officer” and to report on their strategies and perspectives for the digital future.

Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel (Director, ValueTrust), Reinhard Florey (CFO, OMV) and Peter Lennkh (CEO, Raiffeisen International Bank AG) presented the topic “The CFO in the VUCA world. Risk Assessment in Volatile Markets” and explained the question of how political risks, currency and country risks must be taken into account in the valuation of investment objects / M&A targets.

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ValueTrust was announced as neutral expert for one offer condition (MAC clause) in the course of the public takeover offer of Scout24 AG by Pulver BidCo GmbH.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz released the fourth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust released the second edition of the ValueTrust European Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust, finexpert und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU) Linz veröffentlichen die vierte Ausgabe der ValueTrust DACH Kapitalmarktstudie.

ValueTrust veröffentlich die zweite Ausgabe der ValueTrust Europa Kapitalmarktstudie.

ValueTrust New Year’s Reception on February 6, 2019 on “Active Investors as a New Reality: Implications for the Capital and Transaction Market of the Future“.

Next to an interesting presentation by Andreas Posavac (Ipreo by IHS Markit) on “Current Trends in Shareholder Activism“, the event topic was discussed with Birger K. Berendes (Bank of America Merrill Lynch), Thomas Schweppe (7Square GmbH), Dr. Patrick Schmitz-Morkramer (PSquared Asset Management AG) and Dr. Benjamin Leyendecker (Kirkland & Ellis International LLP) as part of a panel with top-class speakers.

All panel participants agreed on one thing: active investors will continue to gain in importance in Germany.

A summary of the panel can be downloaded [DE].

Article in M&A Review 1-2/2019: “Findings on implicit capital costs in Europe: Guidance for decision-makers in volatile times”. [DE]

As part of the Ipreo by IHS Markit practical seminar held on 28.01.2019 in Frankfurt, the topic “Passive, active, activist” – trends, risks, opportunities and requirements in dealing with active investors.” was examined and discussed.

Next to Prof. Dr. Christian Aders , Friederike Helfer (Cevian), Till Hufnagel (Petrus), Nicolas Huber (DWS), Anke Zschorn (IVOX), Chris Rushton (Glass Lewis), Stefan Georgiev (ISS), Angelika Horstmeier (IHS Markit), Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibt (Freshfields), Regine Siepmann (hkp) were also part of the top-class expert panel.

All information about the event at www.events.ipreo.com/ihs-markit-wisdom-conference-frankfurt-jan-19/.

ValueTrust Event on December 4, 2018 in Munich. ValueTrust and Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler (HHL Leipzig) jointly presented the unique results of the HHL/ValueTrust Public Takeover & Taking Private Studies 2018. Are you interested in the presentation documents? Please feel free to contact us at events@value-trust.com.

ValueTrust acts as independent expert (OFAC clause) in the course of the public takeover of VTG Aktiengesellschaft by Warwick Holding GmbH.

This year’s EACVA annual conference for all assessment professionals took place from 22 to 23 November. Among other renowned German and international speakers, ValueTrust Managing Director Dr. Christian Büchelhofer gave a lecture on “Market and Sector Returns for Cost of Capital – a DACH and European View”. All information on the EACVA Conference 2018 at www.bewerterkonferenz.de.

ValueTrust article in the CFOaktuell, 11/2018: Evaluation of start-ups and growth companies. [DE]

ValueTrust Artikel in der CFOaktuell, 11/2018: Die Bewertung von Start-ups und Wachstumsunternehmen.

The 21st Munich M&A Forum on the topic “Real Estate M&A” took place on 13 November 2018. The panel discussion was chaired by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders.

https://www.mma-forum.eu/archiv/mma-21.html

ValueTrust Event on November 12, 2018 in Vienna. Prof. Dr. Aschauer, Prof. Dr. Rohatschek and Prof. Dr. Christian Aders gave presentations on the topic “The practice of impairment test evaluation: facts and critical topics”. The event took place in cooperation with the Vienna Stock Exchange, JKU Linz and CIRA. Are you interested in the presentation documents? Please feel free to write to us at events@value-trust.com.

Börsen-Zeitung reports on the model developed by ValueTrust for estimating promising M&A premiums and publishes the article “When takeover costs explode”. BZ 13th November 2018, page 13. [DE]

ValueTrust Event in Frankfurt on 25 October 2018. At our ValueTrust event in Frankfurt am Main on 25 October 2018, we presented the unique results of the HHL/ValueTrust Public Takeover & Taking Private Studies 2018 together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler from the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Are you interested in the presentation documents? Please feel free to write to us at events@value-trust.com.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the third issue of the DACH Capital Market Study as per June 30, 2018.

ValueTrust, finexpert und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die dritte Ausgabe der DACH Kapitalmarktstudie zum 30. Juni 2018 vor.

For the first time, ValueTrust also release a ValueTrust European Capital Market Study, which uniquely analyzes the relevant parameters for the European capital market on an aggregated level.

ValueTrust Event in München am 4. Dezember 2018 zum Thema „Ergebnisse der HHL/ValueTrust Public Takeover & Taking Private Studien 2018“. Zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler (HHL Leipzig) stellen wir unsere einzigartigen Studienergebnisse vor und freuen uns auf interessante Vorträge zu den Themen „Total Cost of Ownership“, „Erfolgsfaktoren von Übernahmen“ und „Synergieanalyse und maximal zahlbare Prämien“.

ValueTrust Event in Munich on 4 December 2018 on the topic “Results of the HHL/ValueTrust Public Takeover & Taking Private Studies 2018”. Together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler (HHL Leipzig) we will present our unique study results and look forward to interesting presentations on the topics “Total Cost of Ownership”, “Success Factors of Takeovers” and “Synergy Analysis and Maximum Payable Premiums”.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to Wild Bunch AG on its financial restructuring in connection with multiple debt-to-equity swaps.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to Mologen AG on a global assignment and co-development agreement with Oncologie Inc.

finexpert – ValueTrust Multiple Report 08/2018

ValueTrust article in the M&A Review, 7-8 / 2018: Takeover Report Germany 2018 [DE]

ValueTrust once again sponsored the 21st Arab-German Business Forum of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V., which took place from June 25th to 27th 2018 in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Christian Aders gave a panel talk on “Direct Investments & Know-How Transfer: Supporting the Industrialization Plans in the Arab World” and moderated the panel discussion “Investment Opportunities in the Venture Capital and Startup Clusters”. Panelists were Mark Hauptmann (Member of the German Parliament), Sascha Noeske (CEO, Strategis AG), Christian Meermann (Founding Partner, Cherry Ventures Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH) and Dr. Ing. Berthold Schmidt (President and CEO, TRUMPF Photonics). All information about this year’s Ghorfa can be found at www.business.ghorfa.de.

On June 5, 2018, the first ValueTrust Business Breakfast took place in Frankfurt am Main at the Jumeirah Hotel Frankfurt. After a joint breakfast, Managing Director Thomas Kühl and Manager Benno Jacke gave short presentations on the topic “Current Developments in Corporate Valuations in the Form of Stock Corporation Structural Measures: Lessons Learned by STADA, Drillisch / 1 & 1 and TLG / WCM”.

The Swiss Takeover Board qualified ValueTrust Financial Advisors SE as a Fairness Opinion Provider for public takeovers and mergers in the Swiss market.

finexpert – ValueTrust German Takeover Report 2018

This year’s 15th CFO-Forum in Stegersbach/Austria, themed ‘The future CFO – Less finance. More strategy!’, attracted 200 CFOs and financial experts. In a separate session Dipl.-Kffr. Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel (Director, ValueTrust Financial Advisors GmbH) together with Dr. Walter Oblin (CFO, Österreichische Post AG) held a presentation on the topic ‘Unicorns and the evaluation of start-ups‘. Thereby the relevant evaluation methods for start-ups as well as contract design options to create an alignment between founders and investors in practice were examined. [DE]

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to bbh on a dispute with the German Federal Network Agency about the cost of equity for network operators.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the second issue of the DACH Capital Market Study as per December 31, 2017.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the fifth issue of the Austrian Capital Market Study as per December 31, 2017.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die fünfte Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 31. Dezember 2017 vor.

ValueTrust article in M&A Review, 03/2018: Implicit capital costs in the DACH region: Do lower implied capital costs lead to higher valuation levels? [DE]

This year’s ValueTrust New Year’s Reception on February 22, 2018 was themed “Corporate Governance in the Tension of Code Reform and Investor Expectations”. More than 90 invited guests met again at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich to discuss current trends on this topic. Key note speaker Prof. Dr. Rolf Nonnenmacher together with panelists Michael H. Kramarsch and Dr. Christian Kames gave exciting insights in upcoming challenges and changes for boards and board members of public companies. More than ever the focus on protection, defense and enhancement of value creation will remain one of the key topics for boardrooms. Active investors, proxy advisors and regulators are enforcing this trend continuously.

Der diesjährige ValueTrust Neujahrsempfang am 22. Februar 2018 stand unter dem Motto „Corporate Governance im Spannungsfeld von Kodexreform und Investorenerwartungen”. Mehr als 90 geladene Gäste trafen sich auch dieses Jahr wieder im Hotel Bayerischer Hof in München, um die aktuellen Trends zu diesem Thema zu diskutieren.  Hauptredner Prof. Dr. Rolf Nonnenmacher gab gemeinsam mit Michael H. Kramarsch und Dr. Christian Kames spannende Einblicke in kommende Herausforderungen und Veränderungen für Vorstände und Vorstandsmitglieder börsennotierter Unternehmen. Der Fokus auf Schutz, Verteidigung und Steigerung der Wertschöpfung wird mehr denn je eines der Schlüsselthemen für die Vorstandsetagen bleiben. Aktive Investoren, Proxy Advisors und Regulatoren setzen diesen Trend fortlaufend fort.

Presentation by Prof. Dr. Aders at the J.P. Morgan and McKinsey Conference “Technology M&A – Valuation of High Growth Companies” on the topic “Valuation of Technology Companies for IFRS Accounting Purposes”.

ValueTrust Article in Corporate Finance, 1-2/2018: Success factors for takeover offers in Germany [DE]

Presentation by Prof. Dr. Aders in the context of the JKU Linz and WU Vienna – Research Initiative Business Valuation on the topic: „ Growth, accumulation and inflation (from the perspective of practitioners)“. [DE]

ValueTrust acted as valuation expert to TLG and WCM on the Domination Agreement.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the first issue of the DACH Capital Market Study as per June 30, 2017.

ValueTrust, finexpert und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die erste Ausgabe der DACH Kapitalmarktstudie zum 30. Juni 2017 vor.

ValueTrust acted as valuation expert on the Squeeze-out of IVG Immobilien AG.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the fourth issue of the Austrian capital market report as per June 30, 2017.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die vierte Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 30. Juni 2017 vor.

ValueTrust Article in Corporate Finance, 07-08/2017: Takeover Report Deutschland 2017 [DE].

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders is co-editor of the Yearbook Business valuation 2017.

ValueTrust in the press: Börsen-Zeitung publishes the article: „Deal mit United Internet kommt bei Anlegern an“. CFO André Driesen in the interview. BZ 19th June 2017, page 8.

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ValueTrust acts as lead Carve-Out Advisor to Sunrise Group on the carve-out and sale of Swiss Towers AG.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to the management board of Drillisch AG on the merger with 1&1 Telecommunication SE.

This year’s 14th CFO-Forum in Stegersbach/Austria, themed ‘Digitalisation offers more opportunities than threats’, attracted 200 CFOs and financial experts. In a separate session Prof. Dr. Aders together with Mr. Mag. Hiesinger (CFO, Mondi AG) held a presentation on the topic ‘Cost of capital as link between M&A, fair value-accounting and performance measurement’. [DE]

ValueTrust article in RWZ Recht und Rechnungswesen, 4/2017: The Determination of Equity Costs by Empirical Measurement of Implicit Industry Returns – An Alternative Capital Cost Concept? [DE]

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ValueTrust strengthens its Vienna office with Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel.

finexpert – ValueTrust German takeover report 2017.

Event at the Swiss Exchange on “Governance, Performance & Pay in the Triad of Board of Directors, Management and Investors”.

On 11 May 2017 a joint event of Ipreo, hkp/// group and ValueTrust Financial Advisors with the support of the Swiss Stock Exchange/SIX Swiss Exchange AG will take place in Zurich.  With our event we want to take up the perspectives of the interest groups executive and non-executive directors as well as (institutional) investors on these entrepreneurial fields of action and work out essential commonalities and differences in the respective positions. A further focus is on how this triangle of forces will continue to change in the coming years. ValueTrust will be represented by Prof. Dr. Aders as speaker and moderator of a panel discussion.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to Nidda Healthcare and STADA on the Domination and Profit or Loss Transfer Agreement.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders schreibt Gastbeitrag im Finance Magazin: Neue Aktionärsrechte-Richtlinie – Darauf achten Investoren bei der Vorstandsvergütung.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Aders writes guest contribution in Finance Magazin: New shareholder rights directive – Investors pay attention to the remuneration of the Management Board.

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ValueTrust acts as financial advisor to Wienerberger AG on the assessment of its value-based management system and target setting.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die dritte Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 31. Dezember 2016 vor.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the third issue of the Austrian capital market report as per December 31, 2016.

The topic of the ValueTrust New Year’s Reception 2017 was “Current (mega) trends and their influence on banks, industry and infrastructure”. More than 80 invited guests met on 2 February 2017 at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich to discuss current trends on this topic.

The top-class Banking and Financial Advisory Panel with Dr. Lutz Raettig (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG) and Erik Podzuweit (Co-CEO and Founder Scalable Capital) discussed, among other things, the following topics:

• the change in the business model of banks as a result of the recent crises
• the influence of brexite and protectionism on growth prognoses
• Disruption of asset and wealth management by FinTechs
• the niche strategy of FinTechs and the VC model of traditional banks
• blockchain technology as a threat to banks pursuing a late-follower strategy

In the Infrastructure and Industry Panel the industry experts Olaf Hoffmann (CEO Dorsch Group) and Dr. Tobias Schmidt-Reintjes (Head of Controlling BMW Group) discussed:

• the end of the oil age that starts faster than expected
• the infrastructure planning of the future
• an area-wide 5G network as a prerequisite for autonomous driving
• the continued existence of conventional vehicles, which will continue to run after 2030 due to a lack of loading capacity
• Corporate venturing as a form of risk management

As part of the lecture series “Governance, Performance & Pay in the triad of the Supervisory Board, Management Board and owners” Prof. Dr. med. Aders gave a presentation on the topic “Pay for Performance: What is Performance?”. [DE]

ValueTrust article in Corporate Finance, special issue valuation, 12/2016: The compounding rate for the derivation of regular compensation payments (angemessener Ausgleich) of domination and profit loss transfer agreements.

ValueTrust has been announced as independent expert (MAC clause) in the course of the public takeover offer of Braas Monier Builing Group S.A. by Standard Industries Inc.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the second issue of the Austrian capital market report as per June 30, 2016.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders is co-editor of the Handelsblatt Jahrbuch Unternehmensbewertung 2016.

ValueTrust strengthens its Frankfurt office: Thomas Kuehl joins ValueTrust from Baker Tilly Roelfs.

ValueTrust article in RWZ Recht und Rechnungswesen, 6/2016 (Source: Publishing House LexisNexis Austria): Die implizite Marktrisikoprämie am österreichischen Kapitalmarkt. [DE]

The ValueTrust Summer Event 2016 in Vienna was held under the topic “Current trends and their influence on decision-makers in the Management Board and Supervisory Board”. In addition to renowned professors, we welcomed numerous representatives of domestic and international companies to k47 on 9 June 2016.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Kalss (WU Vienna) gave lectures on the significance of the Business Judgement Rule for strategic decisions in the financial sector and Prof. Dr. Ewald Aschauer (JKU Linz) on the new requirements for the Audit Committee. Michael H. Kramarsch (hkp/// group) presented a study by the hkp/// group on the remuneration of management boards in ATX companies.  Finally, Dr. Bernhard Rieder (DORDA BRUGGER JORDIS) and Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (ValueTrust) presented the practical application of the Business Judgement Rule using the example of M&A and capital structure decisions.

ValueTrust acts as financial advisor to Telefónica Germany on the carve-out and sale of wireless towers to Telxius.

finexpert – ValueTrust German takeover report 2016.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the first issue of the Austrian capital market report as per December 31, 2015.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die erste Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 31. Dezember 2015 vor.

ValueTrust acts as an Independent Valuation Expert to BHF Kleinwort Benson in the proposed public takeover offer by FOSUN.

The topic of the ValueTrust New Year’s Reception 2016 was “Investors, Capital Markets and Conflicts of Interest”. More than 90 invited guests met on February 18, 2016 at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich to discuss current trends on this topic.

Prof. Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin (former Minister of State) gave lectures on the role of ethics for the financial industry and Prof. Dr. A. Stefan Kirsten (CFO, Vonovia) on the importance of active investors for the capital market and executive bodies.

In the subsequent panel discussion, Prof. Dr. A. Stefan Kirsten, Reiner M. Löslein (Senior Advisory Partner, Castik), Prof. Dr. Martin Plendl (CEO, Deloitte), Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Ziegenhain (Partner, Hengeler Mueller) and Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (CEO, ValueTrust) dealt with the conflicts of interest of investors, executive bodies and consultants.

ValueTrust acts as valuation expert to Bilfinger SE on its strategic reorganization.

ValueTrust has been announced as independent expert (MAC clause) in the course of the public takeover offer of Deutsche Wohnen AG by Vonovia SE.

ValueTrust was represented with two events at this year’s EACVA conference. The panel discussion, chaired by Prof. Dr. Aders, discussed current problems in the valuation of real estate companies with participants from banking, consulting and industry. In a second event, the first results of the Takeover Study by ValueTrust and HHL Leipzig, which examines public takeovers in Germany, were presented.

The “Business Forum Iran Europe” will take place in Frankfurt from 18 to 19 November 2015. Against the background of the lifting of economic sanctions against Iran, the aim of the forum is to present an overall picture of the Iranian economy and investment opportunities in the post-sanction era. At this event, German and European company representatives will have the opportunity to meet and discuss with high-ranking Iranian participants from the public and private sectors. ValueTrust will be represented by Prof. Aders, who will chair a panel discussion.

Article in Corporate Finance 11/2015: The new delisting rules and the question of the value of the listing. [DE]

ValueTrust and finexpert present the first issue of the finexpert – ValueTrust German takeover report.

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Yearbook Business valuation 2015

ValueTrust acts as independent valuation expert to the minority shareholders of Sentez Sağlık Hizmetleri A.Š. on the determination of the fair value range.

ValueTrust is sponsoring the 18th Arab-German Business Forum of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V. from June 8 to 10, 2015 in Berlin.

ValueTrust acts as independent valuation expert to Deutsche Annington on its acquisition of GAGFAH.

The Munich M&A Forum (MMA) provides a platform for discussions on the latest legal developments and their impact on M&A transactions. ValueTrust supports the MMA as a supporting member and is represented with a speaker at the next meeting. Together we invite you to the event “Buyer Strategies to Safeguard Corporate Value in M&A Transactions” on May 12, 2015 in Munich.

Interview in the business magazine SOUQ, issue 1/2015: “Direct investments in Germany worth 80 billion euros in half a year. Dr. Aders: “Arab investors have a limited competitive role”. [Arabic]

ValueTrust acts as financial advisor to Semperit AG Holding on the optimization of the capital structure.

Prof. Dr. Aders speaks at the 12th German Corporate M&A Congress on “Public Takeover and Taking Private: Status quo”. [DE]

ValueTrust in the press: WirtschaftsWoche Online publishes the article: “Was Bank Austria too cheap?: Trial against UniCredit picks up speed again”. [DE]

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ValueTrust acts as Financial Advisor to RHJ International on the acquisition of the remaining shares in Kleinwort Benson Group.

Prof. Dr. Ewald Aschauer supports ValueTrust as an advisory board member for Austria.

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ValueTrust acts as Valuation Advisor to IVG Immobilien AG on its financial restructuring.

ValueTrust acts as financial advisor to SOSTNT Luxembourg S.à r.l.  on the acquisition of shares in FTI Finanzholding GmbH.

ValueTrust fungiert als Finanzberater der SOSTNT Luxembourg S.à r.l. beim Erwerb von Anteilen an der FTI Finanzholding GmbH.

ValueTrust acts as financial advisor to THURSDAY Holding Ltd. on the acquisition of shares in RT / Raiffeisen Touristik Group GmbH.

ValueTrust fungiert als Finanzberater der THURSDAY Holding Ltd. beim Erwerb von Anteilen an RT / Raiffeisen Touristik Group GmbH.

Yearbook Business valuation 2014

ValueTrust is sponsoring the 17th Arab-German Business Forum of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V. from June 4 to 6, 2014 in Berlin. At the event, ValueTrust will publish an analysis of M&A activities between the Arab world and Germany.

ValueTrust acts as independent Fairness Opinion provider to i:FAO on the public tender offer by Amadeus Group.

ValueTrust acts as Financial Expert to RHJ International on the acquisition of BHF-BANK.

Robert Frank joins ValueTrust’s Munich team as Senior Manager in April. The business economist and EMBA graduate can look back on a career of more than 8 years in the areas of Valuation and Transaction Advisory Services at Rödl & Partner, where he accompanied national and international companies as well as hedge funds in corporate transactions and structural measures. At ValueTrust, Mr. Frank will not only deal with corporate valuations but also with valuations in connection with legal disputes and restructurings.

ValueTrust is partner of the quarterly “Finexpert-Report” of FINEXPERT GmbH under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler of HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The Finexpert Report contains current, sector-dependent capital market multiples (EV/EBIT, EV/EBITDA), yield curves, beta factors and numerous other capital market data on a multi-year basis. The latest report is available on request directly from ValueTrust or as a download.

ValueTrust as sponsor of this year’s GCC-Germany Business and Investment Forum of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V., which will take place from March 11 to 13, 2014 in Berlin.

Editorial in Corporate Finance 2/2014: Plea for an appropriate complexity reduction in the practice of company valuation. [DE]

ValueTrust released the 14th edition of the DACH Capital Market Study, which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our Study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of twelve sectors for the DACH region using different methods.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 13th edition of the European Capital Market Study, which is released on a semi-annual basis.

In our study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of ten sectors for Europe using different methods.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 13th edition of the DACH Capital Market Study, which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our Study, we highlight the capital market developments over the first half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of twelve sectors for the DACH region using different methods.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 12th edition of the European Capital Market Study, which is released on a semi-annual basis.

In our study, we highlight the capital market developments over the first half of 2023 and further analyze the cost of capital of ten sectors for Europe using different methods.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

We are pleased to present the 2023 edition of the German Takeover Report, which was created and published in cooperation with ValueTrust and finexpert.

The report covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2022 according to the German takeover code WpÜG and provides among others comprehensive information on relevant variables such as bid types, premia offered, market reaction of targets’ and (if available) on bidders’ stock prices.

Find the entire report as download here.

ValueTrust released the 11th edition of the European Capital Market Study, which is released on a semi-annual basis.

In our study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2022 and further analyze the cost of capital of ten sectors for Europe using different methods.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the 12th edition of the DACH Capital Market Study, which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our Study, we highlight the capital market developments over the second half of 2022 and further analyze the cost of capital of twelve sectors for the DACH region using different methods.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the tenth edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2022), which is released on a semi-annual basis. In our study, we analyze the relevant parameters to calculate cost of capital, determine implied as well as historical market and sector returns and derive the unlevered cost of equity based on 10 different sectors.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the eleventh edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2022), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

Yesterday, the 24th Münchner M&A Forum took place, whereby ValueTrust acted as sponsor. Dr. Cai Berg, Senior Managing Director at ParkView, explained the framework conditions for the influence of hedge funds on takeovers in his introductory lecture, followed by a lively panel discussion, chaired by Senior Managing Director Prof. Dr. Christian Aders.

Please find the video recording as well as a short presentation on the organiser’s website. We look forward to next time!

Wir freuen uns, den German Takeover Report 2022 (8. Ausgabe) vorstellen zu können, der in Zusammenarbeit mit ValueTrust und finexpert erstellt und veröffentlicht wurde.

Der Bericht deckt alle Übernahmeangebote und Delisting-Angebote des Jahres 2021 ab und liefert umfangreiche Informationen über relevante Variablen wie Angebotsarten, angebotene Prämien, Marktreaktionen des Targets und Aktienkurse des Bieters. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht unsere umfangreiche Datenbank den Vergleich der Vorjahreswerte dieser Variablen mit dem gleitenden Durchschnitt der vorangegangenen Jahre und damit die Darstellung von Trends und langfristigen Entwicklungen.

Zusätzlich enthält dieser Bericht eine ausführliche Analyse der Fairness Opinions sowie des Managements und des Aufsichtsrats der Zielgesellschaft, was eine detaillierte Analyse der Beziehung zwischen diesen Faktoren und der Reaktion des Aktienkurses der Zielgesellschaft sowie der Erfolgsquote des Übernahmeangebots ermöglicht.

Laden Sie den Bericht herunter, indem Sie unten auf das blaue Symbol klicken.

We are pleased to announce the German Takeover Report 2022 (8th edition), which was created and published in cooperation with ValueTrust and finexpert.

The report covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2021 and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and bidder’s stock prices. In addition, our extensive database allows to compare last year’s figures of these variables against the moving average of the preceding years and thus to highlight trends and long-term developments. Furthermore, this report contains an extensive analysis of fairness opinions and management and supervisory board of the target company, allowing for a detailed analysis of the relationship of these factors upon target stock price reaction and success rates of the takeover bid.

Dowload the report by clicking on the blue icon below.

ValueTrust released the tenth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2021), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

Find our DACH Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the ninth edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2021), which is released on a semi-annual basis. In our study, we analyze the relevant parameters to calculate cost of capital, determine implied as well as historical market and sector returns and derive the unlevered cost of equity based on 10 different sectors.

Find our European Capital Market Study as download here.

ValueTrust released the ninth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2021), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna and finexpert.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

ValueTrust released the eighth edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of June 30, 2021), which is released on a semi-annual basis. In our study, we show cost of equity for ten different sectors according to four different methodologies as well as valuation levels for the former.

finexpert and ValueTrust present the seventh edition of the German Takeover Report. It covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2020 according to the German takeover code WpÜG and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and (if available) on bidder’s stock prices.

This report contains a detailed description of the takeover of ISRA Vision by Atlas Copco. ValueTrust has provided a fairness opinion to the management board and the supervisory board of ISRA Vision. ParkView Partners has acted as financial advisor to the management board of ISRA during the entire takeover process.

ValueTrust released the eighth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2020), which is created and published semi-annually by ValueTrust in cooperation with the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the WU Vienna and finexpert.

In our DACH Capital Market Study, we derive valuation parameters and cost of equity in a comprehensive manner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland to provide a sound basis for investment decisions, which is paramount in the current uncertain economic environment. We present current valuation levels based on trading multiples and estimate cost of equity according to four different methodologies for twelve different sectors.

ValueTrust released the seventh edition of the European Capital Market Study (as of December 31, 2020), which is publicated on a semi-annual basis. In our European Capital Market study, we show cost of equity for ten different sectors according to four different methodologies.

ValueTrust released the seventh edition of the DACH Capital Market Study (Version: June 30, 2020), which was created and published by ValueTrust in cooperation with the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the JKU Linz and finexpert.

In our DACH Capital Market Study valuation parameters and cost of equity are derived in a comprehensive manner to provide a sound basis for investment decisions, even more relevant than usual in the current volatile economic environment.

ValueTrust released the sixth edition of the European Capital Market Study (Version: June 30, 2020), which uniquely analyzes the relevant cost of capital parameters and multiples for the European capital market on an aggregated level.

Given the current COVID-19 crisis ValueTrust released the fifth edition of the European Capital Market Study (Version: March 31, 2020) in order to give decision-makers guidelines with regard to current valuation parameters.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the Johannes Kepler University Linz released the sixth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust released the fourth edition of the ValueTrust European Capital Market Study, which uniquely analyzes the relevant parameters for the European capital market on an aggregated level.

finexpert and ValueTrust present the sixth edition of the German Takeover Report. The report covers all takeover offers and delisting tender offers of the year 2019 according to the German takeover code WpÜG and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and (if available) on bidder’s stock prices.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust and ParkView Partners) hielt an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München im Rahmen der Vorlesung “Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation” einen Gastvortrag zum Thema “Pay for performance – Was ist Performance?”.

In cooperation with finexpert and HHL we present the 1st issue of the German Takeover & Endgame Report 2019.

The report gives a thorough empirical overview over the entire process of a takeover under German law starting from the offer bid over the acceptance period and completion to the “endgame” of structural measures reaching the 100% ownership in the target company.

ValueTrust released the latest edition of the ValueTrust European Capital Market Study.

You are interested in our study? Please send us an e-mail to info@value-trust.com.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz released the latest edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study.

The German Takeover Report 2019 has been released.

The fifth issue was created and published in cooperation with ValueTrust and finexpert and covers all takeover bids according to the German takeover code WpÜG of the year 2018 and provides extensive information on relevant variables like bid types, premia offered, market reaction of target’s and (if available) on bidder’s stock prices.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute of Auditing and Sustainability Accounting of the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz released the fourth edition of the ValueTrust DACH Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust released the second edition of the ValueTrust European Capital Market Study.

ValueTrust, finexpert und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU) Linz veröffentlichen die vierte Ausgabe der ValueTrust DACH Kapitalmarktstudie.

ValueTrust veröffentlich die zweite Ausgabe der ValueTrust Europa Kapitalmarktstudie.

This year’s EACVA annual conference for all assessment professionals took place from 22 to 23 November. Among other renowned German and international speakers, ValueTrust Managing Director Dr. Christian Büchelhofer gave a lecture on “Market and Sector Returns for Cost of Capital – a DACH and European View”. All information on the EACVA Conference 2018 at www.bewerterkonferenz.de.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the third issue of the DACH Capital Market Study as per June 30, 2018.

ValueTrust, finexpert und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die dritte Ausgabe der DACH Kapitalmarktstudie zum 30. Juni 2018 vor.

For the first time, ValueTrust also release a ValueTrust European Capital Market Study, which uniquely analyzes the relevant parameters for the European capital market on an aggregated level.

finexpert – ValueTrust Multiple Report 08/2018

ValueTrust once again sponsored the 21st Arab-German Business Forum of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V., which took place from June 25th to 27th 2018 in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Christian Aders gave a panel talk on “Direct Investments & Know-How Transfer: Supporting the Industrialization Plans in the Arab World” and moderated the panel discussion “Investment Opportunities in the Venture Capital and Startup Clusters”. Panelists were Mark Hauptmann (Member of the German Parliament), Sascha Noeske (CEO, Strategis AG), Christian Meermann (Founding Partner, Cherry Ventures Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH) and Dr. Ing. Berthold Schmidt (President and CEO, TRUMPF Photonics). All information about this year’s Ghorfa can be found at www.business.ghorfa.de.

finexpert – ValueTrust German Takeover Report 2018

This year’s 15th CFO-Forum in Stegersbach/Austria, themed ‘The future CFO – Less finance. More strategy!’, attracted 200 CFOs and financial experts. In a separate session Dipl.-Kffr. Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel (Director, ValueTrust Financial Advisors GmbH) together with Dr. Walter Oblin (CFO, Österreichische Post AG) held a presentation on the topic ‘Unicorns and the evaluation of start-ups‘. Thereby the relevant evaluation methods for start-ups as well as contract design options to create an alignment between founders and investors in practice were examined. [DE]

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the second issue of the DACH Capital Market Study as per December 31, 2017.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the fifth issue of the Austrian Capital Market Study as per December 31, 2017.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die fünfte Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 31. Dezember 2017 vor.

Presentation by Prof. Dr. Aders at the J.P. Morgan and McKinsey Conference “Technology M&A – Valuation of High Growth Companies” on the topic “Valuation of Technology Companies for IFRS Accounting Purposes”.

Presentation by Prof. Dr. Aders in the context of the JKU Linz and WU Vienna – Research Initiative Business Valuation on the topic: „ Growth, accumulation and inflation (from the perspective of practitioners)“. [DE]

ValueTrust, finexpert und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die erste Ausgabe der DACH Kapitalmarktstudie zum 30. Juni 2017 vor.

ValueTrust, finexpert and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the first issue of the DACH Capital Market Study as per June 30, 2017.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die vierte Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 30. Juni 2017 vor.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the fourth issue of the Austrian capital market report as per June 30, 2017.

This year’s 14th CFO-Forum in Stegersbach/Austria, themed ‘Digitalisation offers more opportunities than threats’, attracted 200 CFOs and financial experts. In a separate session Prof. Dr. Aders together with Mr. Mag. Hiesinger (CFO, Mondi AG) held a presentation on the topic ‘Cost of capital as link between M&A, fair value-accounting and performance measurement’. [DE]

Event at the Swiss Exchange on “Governance, Performance & Pay in the Triad of Board of Directors, Management and Investors”.

On 11 May 2017 a joint event of Ipreo, hkp/// group and ValueTrust Financial Advisors with the support of the Swiss Stock Exchange/SIX Swiss Exchange AG will take place in Zurich.  With our event we want to take up the perspectives of the interest groups executive and non-executive directors as well as (institutional) investors on these entrepreneurial fields of action and work out essential commonalities and differences in the respective positions. A further focus is on how this triangle of forces will continue to change in the coming years. ValueTrust will be represented by Prof. Dr. Aders as speaker and moderator of a panel discussion.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the third issue of the Austrian capital market report as per December 31, 2016.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die dritte Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 31. Dezember 2016 vor.

As part of the lecture series “Governance, Performance & Pay in the triad of the Supervisory Board, Management Board and owners” Prof. Dr. med. Aders gave a presentation on the topic “Pay for Performance: What is Performance?”. [DE]

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the second issue of the Austrian capital market report as per June 30, 2016.

ValueTrust and the Institute for Accounting and Auditing of the Johannes Kepler University Linz release the first issue of the Austrian capital market report as per December 31, 2015.

ValueTrust und das Institut für Unternehmensrechnung und Wirtschaftsprüfung der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stellen die erste Ausgabe der Kapitalmarktstudie Österreich zum 31. Dezember 2015 vor.

ValueTrust was represented with two events at this year’s EACVA conference. The panel discussion, chaired by Prof. Dr. Aders, discussed current problems in the valuation of real estate companies with participants from banking, consulting and industry. In a second event, the first results of the Takeover Study by ValueTrust and HHL Leipzig, which examines public takeovers in Germany, were presented.

Prof. Dr. Aders speaks at the 12th German Corporate M&A Congress on “Public Takeover and Taking Private: Status quo”. [DE]

ValueTrust Article in Corporate Finance, 09-10/2023: DVFA Grundsätze für die Erstellung
von Fairness Opinions 2023 [DE].

Due to the increasing relevance of fairness opinions in the context of corporate transactions we have published the below article, that gives an overview of the use cases of fairness opinions and the new DVFA standards.

List of publications of Prof. Dr. Christian Aders

The energy transition is a major challenge for the expansion of energy generation from renewable energy sources, the expansion of the power grid infrastructure, and the storage of energy, since energy generation from renewable sources is more fluctuating and decentralized than from conventional power plants.

In the January issue of CFOaktuell, Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, elaborates on the role of cost of capital (CoC) in facilitating the energy transition.

Find the entire article as download here.

List of publications of Prof. Dr. Christian Aders

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust) is co-editor of Yearbook of Company Valuation 2021.
The past year 2020 has led to new and major challenges in the field of business valuation due to the Covid19 pandemic. The aim of the yearbook is to provide an overview of current topics in company valuation and to highlight important discussions of the past year 2020 in this context.

For more information, please visit Jahrbuch der Unternehmensbewertung 2021 (Buch) – Fachmedien Otto Schmidt KG

Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, has published the article „Implication of Business Judgement Rule in context of company acquisitions“ in the journal CFOaktuell (05/2021).

The Business Judgement Rule, which has long been known in the USA as a liability-limiting regulation, has been enshrined in law in Germany and Austria for some years now. However, in the case of major business decisions, especially company acquisitions, the amount of information and analysis required to exempt the board from liability is much more extensive than is usually assumed.

Please find the full article as download.

ValueTrust article in the latest edition of the business magazine SOUQ 1/2021: “New opportunities in the context of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulations”.

CORPORATE FINANCE 01-02/2021: Article by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (ValueTrust), Prof. Dr. Schwetzler (HHL Leipzig) and Renata Lavrova (ValueTrust) on the topic “Taking Private in Deutschland: Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA)”.

List of publications Prof. Dr. Christian Aders

Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, has published the article „European cost of capital and valuation levels in the Covid 19 crisis as a basis for substantiated investment decisions“ in the journal M&A Review (10/2020).

As a result of the Covid 19 crisis, the prime rate fell almost continuously in the first half of 2020, reaching a historic low of 0.06%. At the same time, the capital markets – despite a significant recovery since the beginning of the crisis – remain highly volatile, which also leads to strong movements in terms of implicit cost of capital and market risk premium.

Especially in volatile times, as we currently find them, it makes sense to substantiate investment decisions by applying several valuation methods. Due to the volatility on the capital markets, the use of longer-term averages (e.g. for implied cost of capital, the market risk premium or multipliers) represents a possible alternative to reporting date values.

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Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel, Director of ValueTrust, has published the article „Impact of the COVID-19 crisis on cost of capital and valuation levels in Europe“ in the journal CFOaktuell (05/2020).

The COVID 19 crisis does not only have significant influence on human interaction, but also on the economic situation. The massive distortions on the stock markets have led to lower valuation levels and hence to a change in implicit cost of capital and valuation parameters across Europe. Decision-makers should take these new conditions into account when performing – now increasingly necessary – goodwill impairment tests and also include them in the assessment of investment opportunities in order to make well-founded investment decisions.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Senior Managing Director, ValueTrust and ParkView) is co-editor of the Yearbook of Company Valuation 2020.
To ensure that company values can be determined reliably and with legal certainty, the Yearbook of Company Valuation 2020 provides relevant expert publications and valuation figures from 2019, a compact overview of the current focal points of company valuation and a comprehensive insight into the discussions between theoretical research and valuation practice.

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ValueTrust article in Finance Magazine: “Public takeovers: This is how high the takeover premium should be“.

The higher the premium, the more likely that the offer will culminate in a takeover? This is not always the case. These factors play an essential role in the success of a public takeover bid.

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Article by HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management on „Index Fund and ETF Ownership and the German Market for Corporate Control“ on the website of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

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CORPORATE FINANCE 07-08/2019: Guest comment by ValueTrust advisory board member Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler (Head of CCTPE and Chair of Financial Management at HHL Leipzig) on “Exchange Traded Funds and the Market for Corporate Control in Germany“.

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CORPORATE FINANCE 07-08/2019: Article by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (ValueTrust), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ballwieser (LMU Munich) and Dr. Andreas Neumeier (Hensoldt Holding GmbH) on the topic “Problems of determining the value in use of young high-tech and other growth companies”.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Aders (Managing Director, ValueTrust) is co-editor of the Yearbook of company valuation 2019.

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ValueTrust article in the latest edition of the business magazine SOUQ 2/2019: “Industrialization and know-how transfer – Private Equity as potential deal source and success factors for direct investments within the GAS Region”.

ValueTrust article in the CFO aktuell, 5/2019: “Value-based management of holding companies and conglomerates” by Prof. Dr. Christian Aders and Marion Swoboda-Brachvogel.

Article in M&A Review 1-2/2019: “Findings on implicit capital costs in Europe: Guidance for decision-makers in volatile times”. [DE]

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ValueTrust article in the CFOaktuell, 11/2018: Evaluation of start-ups and growth companies. [DE]

ValueTrust Artikel in der CFOaktuell, 11/2018: Die Bewertung von Start-ups und Wachstumsunternehmen.

Börsen-Zeitung reports on the model developed by ValueTrust for estimating promising M&A premiums and publishes the article “When takeover costs explode”. BZ 13th November 2018, page 13. [DE]

ValueTrust article in the M&A Review, 7-8 / 2018: Takeover Report Germany 2018 [DE]

ValueTrust article in M&A Review, 03/2018: Implicit capital costs in the DACH region: Do lower implied capital costs lead to higher valuation levels? [DE]

ValueTrust Article in Corporate Finance, 1-2/2018: Success factors for takeover offers in Germany [DE]

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ValueTrust Article in Corporate Finance, 07-08/2017: Takeover Report Deutschland 2017 [DE].

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders is co-editor of the Yearbook Business valuation 2017.

ValueTrust in the press: Börsen-Zeitung publishes the article: „Deal mit United Internet kommt bei Anlegern an“. CFO André Driesen in the interview. BZ 19th June 2017, page 8.

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ValueTrust article in RWZ Recht und Rechnungswesen, 4/2017: The Determination of Equity Costs by Empirical Measurement of Implicit Industry Returns – An Alternative Capital Cost Concept? [DE]

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finexpert – ValueTrust German takeover report 2017.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders schreibt Gastbeitrag im Finance Magazin: Neue Aktionärsrechte-Richtlinie – Darauf achten Investoren bei der Vorstandsvergütung.

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Prof. Dr. Christian Aders writes guest contribution in Finance Magazin: New shareholder rights directive – Investors pay attention to the remuneration of the Management Board.

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ValueTrust article in Corporate Finance, special issue valuation, 12/2016: The compounding rate for the derivation of regular compensation payments (angemessener Ausgleich) of domination and profit loss transfer agreements.

Prof. Dr. Christian Aders is co-editor of the Handelsblatt Jahrbuch Unternehmensbewertung 2016.

ValueTrust article in RWZ Recht und Rechnungswesen, 6/2016 (Source: Publishing House LexisNexis Austria): Die implizite Marktrisikoprämie am österreichischen Kapitalmarkt. [DE]

finexpert – ValueTrust German takeover report 2016.

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Article in Corporate Finance 11/2015: The new delisting rules and the question of the value of the listing. [DE]

ValueTrust and finexpert present the first issue of the finexpert – ValueTrust German takeover report.

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Yearbook Business valuation 2015

Interview in the business magazine SOUQ, issue 1/2015: “Direct investments in Germany worth 80 billion euros in half a year. Dr. Aders: “Arab investors have a limited competitive role”. [Arabic]

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ValueTrust in the press: WirtschaftsWoche Online publishes the article: “Was Bank Austria too cheap?: Trial against UniCredit picks up speed again”. [DE]

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Yearbook Business valuation 2014

ValueTrust is sponsoring the 17th Arab-German Business Forum of the Ghorfa Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e. V. from June 4 to 6, 2014 in Berlin. At the event, ValueTrust will publish an analysis of M&A activities between the Arab world and Germany.

ValueTrust is partner of the quarterly “Finexpert-Report” of FINEXPERT GmbH under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schwetzler of HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The Finexpert Report contains current, sector-dependent capital market multiples (EV/EBIT, EV/EBITDA), yield curves, beta factors and numerous other capital market data on a multi-year basis. The latest report is available on request directly from ValueTrust or as a download.

Editorial in Corporate Finance 2/2014: Plea for an appropriate complexity reduction in the practice of company valuation. [DE]

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