Hello,


My company is in the process of fund raising in order to expend our
activities and built a new factory in Germany.

There are many German/EU financing programs (like the www.kfw-mittelstandsbank.de).

We are looking for German commercial companies that are specialized in
this field. Meaning, know all programs, and how to apply to them.

 

Thank you,

Sharon

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Clarification of Question by sharonshani-ga on 27 Jul 2005 01:22 PDT

Meaning; consulting companies

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Clarification of Question by sharonshani-ga on 18 Aug 2005 03:17 PDT

thank you all

Sharon,
Good idea to rephrase your question.  I hope you or someone nearby
speaks German as this will make searching a lot easier, as well as
giving you a control if you end up depending on a company for advice.

This site provides links to 17 addresses.  The words after the first
slash mark translate:  business, initial start-up (?), regional
business support.

http://www.besteadresse.de/wirtschaft/existenzgruendung/regionale_wirtschaftsfoerderung.php

Some of these are govt, sites, like this is one from Dortmund,
outlining some of the necessary steps:

http://www.go-to-do.com/content_de/index.html

This is the list that appears after a click on "unternehmensberatung"
at the left of the previous site, bringing up 95 sites for "business
consultants":

http://www.besteadresse.de/wirtschaft/existenzgruendung/unternehmensberatung.php

This is a very mixed bag, many useless for your purposes.

This is the site for the state of Bavaria:

http://www.startup-in-bayern.de/Global/kontakt.html

I am leary of naming any companies "that are specialized in this
field" simply because I have no experience with them.  I would
recommend that you test the govt. sites, maybe testing their English
capability if that is important.

I have, however, spoken with a friend who has a ?mergers and
acquisitions? company in Germany (the first named at the bottom of the
following site, who may not be personally available).  He agreed that
you could contact them.  Perhaps M&A could be a solution that you have
not considered.  At least, it would be an opportunity to speak with
someone who might be able to guide you to another source that could
help you.

http://www.m-a-international.de/Pressemitteilung_1Hlbj_2003_dt.pdf

Best of luck,  Myoarin

Thank you very much.

Seesm very helpful.

Sharon

Another idea, the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany:

http://www.dai-tuebingen.de/organisationen/31fc072d8996db7a7283495a7a4a4066.pdf

Or this:

http://www.welcome-to-hessen.de/ibh.htm

Hi Sharon
 
in the following you find some URLs of companies that might be of good
help for your project:

www.steinbeis-tib.de
www.eigenkapitalbeschaffung.de
www.catcap.de
www.consultatio.de
www.chance-mall.de

Address your wishes to all of them and analyse their respective
answers. All of them are highly reputable and have expert knowledge in
the area of "government financing programs"

Wish you all the best
Anton Kaufmann
Kaufmann & Partner M&A Services