Isabel Wessel specializes on financial issues with regards to advising family businesses, entrepreneurial families and their respective single family offices. Priorly, Isabel Wessel worked in the strategy and transactions practice of a leading international auditing firm in both Hamburg and New York for several years and has accompanied large investment projects for a variety of entrepreneurial families, family offices and investment companies financed by entrepreneurial families in different industry settings. Her key areas of expertise comprise financial valuation, financial due diligence as well as share transfers, both at shareholder level and the level of the respective family businesses.
Within PETER MAY Family Office Service, Isabel Wessel advises respective family members and family branches on the transfer of company shares within the family circle, provides supporting perspective to potential openings to third parties and develops solutions with regards to adequate financing options in pursuance of transaction aspirations. The consultation and facilitation in the context of the transfer of company assets from one generation to the next reflects a particular expertise and focus area of her daily work. Additionally, Isabel Wessel offers insights on matters regarding asset allocation in corporate investments and helps facilitate the establishment of transparent reporting measures to the shareholders by the acquired company.
Having supported various transactions for entrepreneurial families in recent years, Isabel Wessel excels at managing business transactions with complex structures in various sectors, such as the food industry, the clothing industry, industrial services or the sport industry. In doing so, Isabel Wessel adheres to the following guiding principles: “The focus of these processes, some of which last for over a year, is the ongoing exchange with representatives of the owner family on the one hand and those with operational responsibility in the company on the other hand. We act as an intermediary between the family and the management, with the constant aim of ensuring that everyone's interests are aligned. This can only be achieved by working together in a spirit of trust and sympathy. After all, the ultimate goal is the successful completion of our joint project.”