ARTHOS advises high-growth technology companies on M&A transactions between 10 and 250 million euros, drawing on more than 20 years of cross-border tech M&A experience and an above-average completion rate.
Based on our extensive sector expertise, we develop, together with you, a strong, strategic equity story and engage with relevant strategic buyers worldwide.
ARTHOS manages M&A processes for tech companies in a way that includes all relevant buyer groups worldwide – strategic investors such as competitors, suppliers and customers, as well as market entrants with sector interest and private equity investors with relevant sector experience. This creates value-enhancing options and strengthens your negotiating position.
ARTHOS advises you on identifying and quantifying synergy potential, working with you to develop compelling equity stories that capture buyers’ attention. We address prospective acquirers who, for example, see your technological edge and know-how as a complementary addition to their portfolio, or who value cross-selling potential across the sales organisation.
Our focus on commercial synergies among prospective buyers consistently delivers valuations significantly above the market average.
Through forward-looking structuring of the M&A process and thorough due diligence preparation, we create a high degree of completion certainty. Our experience enables early risk identification – resulting in a completion rate of 80 %, well above market level.
Who is the right buyer for your company?
Not every buyer creates the same strategic value. We identify the right solution between your technology products and services, your market position, and your personal objectives.
How does a secure and successful M&A process work?
Process quality determines outcome quality. From positioning through to negotiation, we orchestrate a structured, competitive process – creating maximum transaction certainty and success.
What increases the valuation of your business?
We increase your company’s valuation by quantifying synergy potential, precisely tailoring your equity story to each prospective buyer, presenting your financials coherently, and generating structured competitive tension.
What is the right timing for your M&A project?
We weigh the current M&A market environment, your company’s starting position, and your transaction objectives together with you, in close dialogue, to determine the optimal time to sell your company.
A confidential initial conversation provides a first assessment of your situation and potential strategic options.
Over the past 20 years, the ARTHOS managing partners have successfully closed over 200 tech transactions.
Accessing global sales channels to accelerate Welotec’s growth strategy in the Edge Computing
National expansion and digitalisation of ASAM’s leading occupational health services via acquisition by Arsipa
We Are Era (RTL Group company) acquires 100 percent of the shares in Social Match – strengthening its market positioning in the creator economy
Accelerating growth of CoCoNet’s leading digital corporate banking platform
Strengthening Transition Technologies MS S.A's position within software development and AEM in Switzerland
inno-spec is joining a global leader in spectral imaging solutions to accelerate growth
Global expansion of MOTHERSHIP’s digital agency services for digital entertainment clients
Extending Eurotech’s footprint in Germany and accelerating its growth strategy in the Edge Computing market in AIoT
Worldwide leading wide-spectral Silicon Photomultiplier technology (SiPM)
ARTHOS advises tacterion on raising equity from two worldwide leading premium brands: Creating the leading tactile sensing company to enable the tactile Internet of the Future
Strengthening Data Respons’ position within software development and IT consulting for financial institutions
Buy and build strategy to create a leading integrated digital agency
ARTHOS advises high-growth technology companies on the sale of their business through a structured M&A process and deep expertise across the relevant technology sectors. Our focus is on international M&A transactions in the EUR 10 million to EUR 250 million enterprise value range.
ARTHOS creates attractive marketing documents based on a robust strategic positioning supported by financial analysis, approaches suitable buyers globally, and prepares negotiations. Our aim is to generate competitive tension and strong momentum that translate into attractive pricing and a high degree of completion certainty.
Discuss your M&A objectives
Sell-side M&A advisory covers preparation (positioning, equity story, financial analysis, tailored marketing documents), identification of attractive buyers, structured approach, management of due diligence and Q&A, and leading the negotiations through to signing and closing. What matters most is process design, the quality of data and argumentation presented in a convincing manner, and a competitive situation that creates alternatives and strengthens your negotiating position. ARTHOS orchestrates this process end to end, combining strategic tech sector expertise with disciplined transaction execution.
Discuss your M&A objectives
A strategic premium arises when a buyer can realise measurable economic strategic benefits through the acquisition – for example, through technological and know-how complementarity, product portfolio expansion, or cross-selling effects.
In sell-side M&A advisory, ARTHOS makes it a priority to present and quantify these strategic synergies and economic benefits for buyers in a clear, verifiable way, and to translate them into an argument that strengthens negotiations.
Discuss your value potential
The professional and strictly confidential handling of information is a critical success factor in many sell-side mandates. Our standard approach includes the phased release of information (teaser to NDA to information memorandum), tightly defined recipient groups, carefully controlled management interactions, and access rights within the virtual data room tailored by workstream and confidentiality level throughout due diligence.
ARTHOS brings experience in managing confidential sell-side processes. We advise clients on the appropriate treatment and disclosure of sensitive information, and structures buyer outreach so that market sounding, buyer interest, and continued control over the flow of information remain in balance. The specific confidentiality framework is tailored to the prevailing market environment, the buyer universe, and your internal requirements regarding the sensitivity of the business information concerned.
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The equity story is the concise, evidence-based articulation of why the company is attractive to potential buyers or investors. It brings together market positioning, product and know-how advantages, financial performance, scalability, and strategic synergy potential into a clear and compelling investment thesis. Particularly in technology transactions, a well-articulated equity story is a key driver of value: it generates early buyer interest and competitive tension, focuses due diligence on the company’s most relevant strengths and provides the strategic rationale underpinning its valuation. As such, it has a material impact on the depth of buyer engagement, transaction certainty and the purchase price ultimately achieved.
ARTHOS develops clearly differentiated and robust equity story that compellingly aligns the company’s strategic relevance and economic value proposition with each prospective buyer’s individual acquisition rationale.
Have your positioning assessed
ARTHOS typically advises on transactions with an enterprise value of EUR 10 million to EUR 250 million. However, the value ARTHOS brings to an M&A transaction is not determined solely by transaction size alone. Other key considerations include the complexity of the buyer universe, the transaction’s international dimension, the underlying synergy or strategic rationale, and the need for professional process orchestration. These factors can be quickly assessed during an initial confidential discussion.
Discuss your M&A objectives
Following the execution of a non-disclosure agreement, an initial confidential conversation about a company sale provides an opportunity to understand your current situation and objectives, as well as your company’s business and financial profile. We will share our perspective on the current M&A market environment and outline how ARTHOS can support your objectives in a proactive, value-enhancing advisory approach. Together, we can then determine whether a more detailed follow-up meeting would be a productive next step for both parties.
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