Business succession
You have a business — and no successor?
This page explains in plain words what Jonas Schmitz offers, how a handover works, and what happens to your team.
Many sound businesses close because nobody in the family takes over. It does not have to end that way. Jonas Schmitz carries such businesses on — with the name, the people and the way of working that make them what they are.
The first conversation takes place at your premises, not in an office. It costs nothing, and it commits you to nothing.
Jonas Schmitz works from Koblenz and is at home in Rhineland-Palatinate and the neighbouring regions — between the Rhine, the Moselle and the Eifel.
Business succession
How a handover works
Getting to know each other
A visit to your business. You show what you have built — and decide afterwards, in your own time, whether a second conversation should follow.
Listening and understanding
Before anyone talks about figures, the conversation is about the business itself: customers, team, routines, and what matters to you in a handover.
A joint plan
Only then does a proposal take shape: price, timeline and the rules that are to apply for you — in writing, in plain language, with your tax adviser at the table.
A calm handover
A handover takes months, not weeks. You help set the pace, and a no is an accepted outcome at any point.
You stay aboard as long as it helps
Many former owners accompany the business for a while. What is good for customers and team is decided together.
How this works in practice
Jonas Schmitz is continually looking for businesses meant to be carried on, and holds conversations with owners across the region to that end.
The commitments on this page are spelled out in such detail because they belong on record beforehand rather than afterwards: what Jonas Schmitz wants to be measured against should be readable from the outset.
Respect
What you can hold him to
Behind every business, every place and every idea stand people and years. That is the starting point of any collaboration — not the price.
- The name stays.
- A business taken on keeps its name and its face. What earned trust over years is not overwritten overnight.
- The team stays the team.
- People are not a line item. Those who have carried the business carry it on.
- Understand first, then change.
- Before anything becomes new, there is listening. What has grown usually grew for a reason.
- No pressure, no rush.
- A handover needs time and clarity, not sales tactics. A no at the right moment is a result too.
- What came before is honoured.
- The history of a place belongs to its future. It is kept, not cleared away.
Enquiries are treated confidentially and passed to no one. Getting in touch commits you to nothing.
Further reading
- Succession & MittelstandBusiness wanted: why I want to continue companies without a successor
- Succession & MittelstandWhen is the right time for succession?
- Succession & MittelstandWhat matters in succession — beyond the price
- Regional developmentWhat carries a region economically
- Succession & MittelstandSuccession without your own children — what then?
- Succession & MittelstandThe most common mistakes in handing over a business
- Regional developmentKeeping skilled workers — why the region decides
- Succession & MittelstandHanding over to your own employees — chances and limits
- Succession & MittelstandThe succession wave in figures — what is actually coming for the German Mittelstand
- Regional developmentWhat is lost when no one takes over
Good undertakings begin with a conversation.
Enquiries reach Jonas Schmitz personally — via your tax adviser as well, if you prefer.
Perhaps your question is already answered: Frequently asked questions