Over the past 20 years, the company founded by Dr. Arno Haselhorst has become one of Germany's leading restructuring consultancies: Haselhorst Associates has grown under its own steam, has steadily expanded its service and client portfolio and currently employs a powerful team of around 35 restructuring professionals, including 6 partners with a stake in the company. The parties have agreed not to disclose details of the transaction.
In the future, the focus will be on specializing in comprehensive restructuring advice in combination with the targeted assumption of CRO mandates. Other business areas of Haselhorst Associates include digitalization consulting and close cooperation with municipal players in the context of urban transformation.
The alliance with H&Z, a leading consultancy firm with strong expertise in management consulting, transformation processes and sustainability, creates a powerful alliance with valuable synergy effects and benefits for the clients of the two partners. "We are very pleased to become part of the growing H&Z Group," says Dr. Arno Haselhorst and adds: "In the interests of our clients, we will combine our shared entrepreneurial values and the implementation-centric consulting approaches of H&Z and Haselhorst Associates. Together, we will stand by our clients far beyond times of crisis and enable their long-term success with strategically sustainable concepts."
Market presence unchanged as Haselhorst Associates
For H&Z, the merger with Haselhorst Associates is an important building block in the group's successful growth strategy: "The merger with Haselhorst Associates strengthens our strategic consulting expertise in particular. In addition to growth and positioning topics, we offer our clients and their financing partners the comprehensive reorganization and restructuring expertise of a consulting firm established in this segment," explains Michael Santo, Managing Director of the H&Z Group.
The integration of Haselhorst Associates GmbH into the H&Z Group will take place gradually in order to ensure seamless cooperation and the usual excellent service quality. Both companies will operate under their existing brands, with the focus on bundling expertise and cooperation. Haselhorst Associates was advised on the transaction by Hübner Schlösser & CIE (M&A) and Osborne Clarke (legal). H&Z's advisors are the H&Z M&A team (Commercial), Latham & Watkins (Legal) and RSM Ebner Stolz (Finance & Tax).
About Haselhorst Associates
Haselhorst Associates, a strategy consultancy based in Starnberg, specializes in restructuring, strategy consulting, profit improvement and comprehensive concepts for the digitalization of companies. The team of around 35 internationally experienced consultants and partners develops tailor-made solutions for its clients: from analysis and project planning to implementation support. Haselhorst Associates also supports municipalities, utilities and companies in their strategic positioning and operational implementation in the field of urban transformation. A central instrument of this work is the annual Smart City Ranking, which provides a comprehensive and well-founded database on the development of Germany's 400 largest cities.
About H&Z
H&Z Unternehmensberatung GmbH stands for consulting with brain, heart and hand. We offer more than successful strategy development. Our experts design, manage and support transformation processes with measurable results. With this unique consulting approach, H&Z ensures sustainable results for international corporations and leading SMEs. Our focus is on Strategy & Performance, Sustainability, Transformation & Procurement - where H&Z is one of the leading consultancies.
The H&Z Group is part of the Transformation Alliance - an association of independent European strategy and management consultancies with more than 1,500 consultants and offices worldwide. 2024 H&Z was recognized as a Hidden Champion among management consultancies by the Scientific Society for Management and Consulting (WGMB).