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.
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.
To be honest
Jonas Schmitz is building this field right now. There is no completed takeover this page could point to yet — whoever comes now is among the first.
That is exactly why the commitments on this page are spelled out in such detail: what Jonas Schmitz wants to be measured against should be written down beforehand, not afterwards.
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.
Good undertakings begin with a conversation.
Enquiries reach Jonas Schmitz personally — via your tax adviser as well, if you prefer.