Start with the main succession guide below. It compares the succession routes, lays out a realistic timeline and covers valuation, tax and the mistakes that cost owners real money. The other guides go deeper into specific situations; each stands on its own and is updated as data and legislation change.
Germany's silent closure wave: sell instead of shut down
For the first time, more owners plan closure than handover, many without ever testing the sale option. Why 'no successor' rarely means 'no buyer'.
Germany's inheritance tax reform 2026
The Constitutional Court is reviewing the business asset exemptions, and politicians debate abolishing them. What that means for the timing of a handover or a sale.
Search funds: when the buyer wants to be your successor
Individual entrepreneurs acquire one company and run it themselves, the most personal external succession route. How the model works and what sellers should check.
Business succession in Schleswig-Holstein
One of the highest handover densities in Germany: market, sectors, funding programmes and the buyer pool between Hamburg and Scandinavia.
More guides are added continuously, including MBO/MBI and further northern German regions.