The people who write these are not the ones you would expect.
A buyer. An opposing shareholder group. A third party who wasn't even in the deal. And when my own clients write, they almost never mention the money.
Read who is thanking me
The buyer
Vittorio Pignatti, Trilantic Europe — on signing, with seven of his partners copied in.
I was on the other side of that table. He is the one who wrote first.
The opposing shareholders
Juan Diego Leon, MLP Investors — Peru.
A majority had turned against an 82-year-old minority shareholder. It ended with him in control of a company twice the size. And the other side thanked me for it.
Someone who wasn't even in the deal
Maximilian Zumtobel, on the Aerocompact exit.
„because of you he really is many many many millions richer than if he had sold later or earlier"
Why this matters more than a five-star review
An adviser who is trusted on both sides of a table negotiates better outcomes than one who isn't. I cannot claim that about myself. Somebody else has to write it.
They almost never mention the money
Every one of these people made or kept a considerable amount of money. Almost none of them wrote to me about it.
Mario Eckl, IDEEMATEC
„Anyway es lebt in mir mein alter Geist wieder auf. Zu lange war ich gefangen im Korsett des CEO welcher sein Lebenswerk an andere reported. Bull Shit — ich bin so froh und hab endlich Zeit wieder dort anzuknüpfen wo ich aufgehört habe, nachdem mir die Firma operative Fesseln umlegte."
„Trapped in the corset of a CEO reporting his own life's work to other people." „After the company put operational shackles on me."
He wrote that himself. Nobody asked him to describe it that way. That is what this work is actually for. The valuation is the visible part. What people write to me about afterwards is that they can breathe.
Mario Kogler, JOLIOO
„Danke ganz herzlich auch DIR nochmals für die gesamte Abwicklung! Super! Wünsch Dir noch guten Flug und schönen Aufenthalt in Dubai mit Deiner Frau!"
Five founders. Five completely different problems.
AEROCOMPACT
CLARITY27×
He turned down €25m. Three years later the same bidder came back at €675m. And he paid 0% tax on the exit.
Read →MOUNTAIN LODGES OF THE WORLD
CAPITAL47% → CONTROL
82 years old, a minority stake, and a majority that had turned against him. Months later he controlled a chain twice the size — with a majority he can pass on.
Read →PGA GROUP
CAPITAL85% → 90%
He came ready to give up equity to fund a new headquarters. He left owning more than when he started, and moved in six months early.
Read →IDEEMATEC
CONTINUITYBOTH SIDES
Father and son founded it together and no longer speak. I am the only person both of them talk to about the company they built.
Read →JOLIOO
CLARITYSIX SHAREHOLDERS, TWO VALUATIONS
Six shareholders held two different valuations of the same company — and neither was wrong. It was resolved not by arguing, but by sequencing.
Read →AMANN GIRRBACH · The generation before
CLARITY€2m → €20m
This one is not mine. It is my father's. €2 million in, €20 million out, seven years — the story the method comes from.
And the rest
Felix Alexander Porsche, Swisspod
„Wunderbar gepasst! Ich freue mich, dass du dabei bist und hilfst dem ganzen von der Finance Seite mehr Struktur zu geben."
Plus further messages from JOLIOO, Mountain Lodges, IDEEMATEC and others — solar technology, hospitality, mobility, industrials. Different industries, different sizes, the same pattern.
In the press
WIR Magazin, January 2026
„Mit Investmentbanker Ralph Pöttinger fand Mathias Muther einen passenden Mitstreiter … Gemeinsam trimmten sie das Unternehmen auf Exit-Kurs mit dem Ziel eines dreistelligen Millionenumsatzes."Read the full article (PDF) →
On stage
