About us
As professionals, as partners, as entrepreneurs.
We work for you and your success according to the principles of probity and on the bases of experience and trust. We know that your company is unique and that in most cases a corporate transaction is for you a monumental occurrence of extreme importance. You can totally rely on us as a professional partner. Guaranteeing absolute confidentiality during the sale process is of paramount importance to us. Every project is tailored to accommodate the individuality of your company.
Direct tending of our customers also plays an important role for us. Thus every transaction is supervised by one of our experienced partners in order to guarantee consistently high consulting quality. We work in a success-orientated way and represent your interests without entering into any compromises whatsover. In addition, as a member of the German Federal Mergers & Acquisitions Association, we have undertaken to provide a high standard of consulting and to abide by ethical principles. Therefore we only take on projects if we are also confident of a successful outcome. Because: your success is also our success!
Experience and know-how for mid market companies.
The managing partners of Centum Capital stand for the values of continuity and professionality. We combine business experience with corporate finance know-how. All the partners come from international industrial and service companies and have been working together as a team since the Nineties.
Before establishing Centum Capital in 2001 our team executed numerous transactions all over Europe for a technology holding. Here the team succeeded in launching a subsidiary onto the stockmarket. Prior to that, the partners worked with corporate development and M&A responsibility in a fast growing division of the Thyssen Group (today ThyssenKrupp), one of the largest industrial companies in Europe.
Since 1997, the team has executed more than 75 transactions with a value of between EUR 5 and 100 million, on both the buying and selling side.
Dipl.-Kaufmann
A founding partner of Centum Capital
Tel.: +49 (0)40 380870-40
Previously as M&A/Business Development project manager of a quoted technology holding company he was involved in the acquisition of European technology companies. In 2000 the IT/eBusiness division of this holding was launched with great success onto the stockmarket.
Marc Wersig also joined the young telecommunications division of Thyssen Group (today ThyssenKrupp) in 1998 where he executed acquisitions.
Prior to that he worked at a media services provider in the Bertelsmann Group in the Business Development division. While completing his studies he also worked at BASF Coatings and the coating company BRILLUX Farben + Lacke.
Marc Wersig graduated from Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, specialising in Marketing and International Management and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.). In addition, he is a bachelor of commerce for wholesale and foreign trade.
Dipl.-Betriebswirt
A founding partner of Centum Capital
Tel.: +49 (0)40 380870-41
Harm Schnakenberg previously led the M&A and Business Development division of a quoted technology holding where he was responsible for the acquisition of technology companies Europe-wide. In 2000 the IT/eBusiness division of this holding was launched with great success onto the stockmarket. Harm Schnakenberg joined the young telecommunications division of the Thyssen Group (today ThyssenKrupp) in 1997 where he executed acquisitions for the Thyssen Group. In parallel he was chief executive of an subsidary company of Thyssen Telecom. From 1993 to 1997 Harm held the position of strategy and organisation consultant for Mummert Consulting AG, a leading German management consultant.
Harm Schnakenberg graduated in business administration, specialising in Finance Management and Corporate Finance, in Hamburg (GER) and Newcastle upon Tyne (UK). He is a qualified bank executive, too.
Dipl.-Betriebswirt
A founding partner of Centum Capital
Tel.: +49 (0)40 380870-44
Previously as M&A/Business Development project manager of a quoted technology holding company he was involved in the acquisition of European technology companies. In 2000 the IT/eBusiness division of this holding was launched with great success onto the stockmarket. Frank joined the young telecommunications division of the Thyssen Group (today ThyssenKrupp) where as early as 1998 he executed acquisitions.
Prior to that he gathered his first project experience as management assistant at the energy supplier HEW (now Vattenfall). Other positions in his career include E-Plus, Philips (semiconductors) and the Institute for Experimental Physics in Hamburg.
Frank Porges graduated in business administration in Hamburg (GER) and Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
We are there for you.
Our clients include mid-market enterprises, industrial companies and institutional financial investors both in Germany and in other countries.
Enterprises which wish, for example, to safeguard the further development of the company with a succession process while at the same time realising the company value entirely or partly.
Companies which are looking for capital for their growth strategy and which wish to strengthen the equity ratio.
Companies which wish to enter into a strategic partnership in order to improve its development potential.
Private equity funds, investment/holding companies and other institutional investors which actively manage their investment portfolios.
Large companies which seek external growth opportunities and/or which wish to focus their activities on core areas.
Managers who intend to execute a Management buy-out/buy-in.