Team and Sector Advisers

Felix Hoch, a partner in C▪H▪Reynolds▪Corporate Finance AG since its foundation in 1998, takes care of clients from the following sectors: Industrial Products and Services, Machinery & Equipment, Automotive and Cleantech.

After completing an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank, he studied Business Administration in St. Gall, Switzerland, with foreign semesters at the universities in Helsinki and Moscow. After graduating (lic. oec. HSG) in 1992, he started his career as a consultant with an M&A focused mid-market corporate finance house, where he was responsible for the formation of joint ventures, MBIs, as well as acquisitions and sales at international level. In 1998, he founded, together with Stefan Constantin, C▪H▪Reynolds. From 2006 until 2011, Felix Hoch was Co-Chairman of Mergers Alliance.

He is member of the Schweizerisch-Deutscher Wirtschaftsclub e.V., the Swiss-German Business Association.

Phone: +49 (0) 69 97 40 30 20
Mobile: +49 (0) 172 697 11 59
Email: f.hoch@chrcf.com

Stefan Constantin is partner at C▪H▪Reynolds▪Corporate Finance AG. His primary focus is on Consumer Goods & Retail, Industrial Products and Services, e-commerce, and the Healthcare/Pharma & Chemical sector.

After graduating in Business Administration in Frankfurt in 1992, he was employed at the corporate finance house Doertenbach & Co. There he advised on cross-border SME transactions, buy-side mandates for foreign companies and auctions with the participation of financial investors. In 1998, he founded C▪H▪Reynolds▪Corporate Finance AG together with Felix Hoch. Over the past 30 years, he has advised on numerous transactions of mid-sized companies and renowned financial investors, when selling their shares or portfolio companies, and has overseen a high number of international acquisition projects for publicly-listed multinational companies.

Stefan Constantin is a member of Vereinigung für Chemie und Wirtschaft VCW (Association for Chemicals and Business) and of Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker GDCh (Society of German Chemists). Moreover, he is member of the Business Advisory Board of FIZ – Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center (Frankfurt Science City Riedberg), and the Frankfurt Society for Trade, Industry and Science.

He was Chairman of the Vereinigung deutscher M&A-Berater (VMA) until March 2014.

Contact:
Phone: +49 (0) 69 97 40 30 40
Mobile: +49 (0) 172 613 59 48
Email: s.constantin@chrcf.com
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Markus Kluge is head of the Machinery & Equipment sector at C▪H▪Reynolds together with Felix Hoch and has advised on numerous transactions in the Industrial Products and Services, Consumer Goods & Retail as well as Healthcare sector, most of which were cross-border M&A transactions.

Markus Kluge has more than 20 years experience in M&A advisory. He worked on numerous sell-side, buy-side and carve-out-transactions, in which he advised private equity as well as corporate clients, including both German “Mittelstand” and large international corporations.

Prior to joining C▪H▪Reynolds, Markus Kluge worked at the Corporate Value Consulting Team at PricewaterhouseCoopers and at the M&A-Team of Rödl & Partner.

Markus Kluge holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the Leibniz University of Hanover with focus on finance, accounting and international financial markets.

He is member of the Schweizerisch-Deutscher Wirtschaftsclub e.V., the Swiss-German Business Association.

Contact:
Phone: +49 (0) 69 97 40 30 78
Mobile: +49 (0) 173 342 05 21
Email: m.kluge@chrcf.com
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Since January 2013 Peter Edelmann has been supporting the team of C▪H▪Reynolds Corporate Finance AG as senior sector advisor in industrial products and services, mechanical engineering and automotive.

After studying business administration, Mr. Edelmann began his career in 1985 at Ferdinand Menrad. He joined Voith GmbH in 1989 and held numerous management positions in the ‘Hydrodamp’, ‘Retarder’, ‘Automatic Transmissions’ and ‘Commercial Vehicles’ divisions. From 2003 to 2012, he was CEO of Voith Turbo and a member of the Board of Management of Voith GmbH Group. First as Chairman of the Advisory Board from 2013 and then as CEO in 2017 and 2018, Mr. Edelmann headed KAEFER Isoliertechnik GmbH & Co. KG with a turnover of EUR 1.6 billion. From 2019 to 2021, he was CEO of the large Austrian B&C Industrieholding GmbH and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the listed company Lenzing AG and member of the Supervisory Board of Semperit AG. Mr. Edelmann is also a member of the advisory boards of the Würth Group, the Möbel Rieger Group, Freudenberg Schwab Schwingungstechnik and the Karl Mayer Group. From October 2023 he is CEO of SSI SCHAEFER Group a leading global solution provider for all areas of intralogistics with sales of EUR 2bn.

Dr. Siegfried Thomalla joined C▪H▪Reynolds in 2019 as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board and member of its Sector Advisory Board. As an industry specialist and proven expert in metal and steel processing, he offers our clients valuable experience in business improvement and an established industrial network.

Dr. Thomalla started his career at the Mannesmann Research Institute (MFI) and at the same time completed an extra-occupational doctorate in engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. After this, he worked for the Swiss Von Roll AG, and later as plant director of the steel processing plant in Homburg (including tubes, bright steel, steel cylinders) for Neunkircher Eisenwerke AG / Saarstahl Völklingen GmbH. In addition, he acted as managing director of IWKA Stahlflaschen GmbH.

Dr. Thomalla then moved to Preussag Group, where as Managing Director of Minimax GmbH he was responsible for the Mobile Fire Protection division as well as its subsidiaries. Later, he also took over the supervision of Minimax-Österreichische Feuerschutz Ges.m.b.H. In addition, he was acting as a member of the supervisory board of the French Minimax subsidiary Protec-Feu S.A.

At the pipe manufacturer Eisen- und Metallwerke Ferndorf, he contributed his international experience as managing director in questions on all matters related to profit optimisation, restructuring and expansion of business areas.

In addition, Dr. Thomalla was a member of the national board of directors of the bvfa (Federal Association of Fire Extinguishing Equipment and Systems) and VFDA (Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection) as well as the board of directors of TÜV Saarland e.V.