Unternehmensnachfolge in Verlagen

Handing over one's own publishing house to others is not easy for most entrepreneurs. After all, it is their personal life's work, encompassing years, sometimes even decades, of their existence—filled with hard work, occasional high risks, some frustrations, but also joy and a great deal of personal identity. The orderly transition of leadership is the final major challenge. Dieter Durchdewald, along with the team at BerlinHorizonte GmbH, supports transaction processes for publishers, agencies, software companies, and other service providers in the media industry. In the course of his consulting activities, he has developed a succession compass in six steps, with each step representing a phase of the transition: creating succession prerequisites, choosing the form of succession and participation, determining the company value and defining the type of sale, finding succession candidates, conducting sales negotiations, and implementing the transfer. The guide presents the individual phases of business succession, identifies typical pitfalls, and offers practical tips to move forward swiftly and ultimately achieve a successful conclusion. This provides planning security for the design of the always individual handover process. Although the book is primarily aimed at those handing over, it also contains valuable information for potential buyers and successors, including discussions on valuation and purchase price determination, due diligence checks, and the question of when to prefer a share deal and in which cases an asset deal is more suitable. A five-page glossary of key technical terms rounds off the discussions.