Team and Sector Advisers

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 20 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
Mpbile: +49 (0) 172 613 59 48
E-Mail: s.constantin@chrcf.com
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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, Automotive, Cleantech and Machinery & Equipment.

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.

Contact:
Phone: +49 (0) 69 97 40 30 20
Mobil: +49 (0) 172 697 11 59
E-Mail: f.hoch@chrcf.com

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 sector, most of which were cross-border M&A transactions.

Markus Kluge has more than nine 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
E-Mail: m.kluge@chrcf.com
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Dr Andreas J. G. Rauh joined the Sector Advisory Board of C▪H▪Reynolds Corporate Finance AG in 2013. With longstanding international experience in the pharma and chemistry industry, he assists the C▪H▪Reynolds team in healthcare, pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors.

Dr Rauh studied Chemical Technology at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and Chemistry at the Philipps University Marburg. He also obtained several post graduate diploma from Kellogg’s/Northwestern University, USA, and Business School St. Gallen, Switzerland.

After his Ph.D. thesis in Molecular Immunology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, Dr Rauh started his professional career at B. Braun Melsungen AG in 1988. He held various management positions in the Medtech and Pharma division and was responsible, amongst others, for the integration of acquired companies.

After switching to Merck KGaA in 1998, Dr Rauh held several leading and senior management positions and was responsible for the re-organisation of the Merck Chemicals Lab Business R&D departments and the implementation of portfolio- and project management. In addition to this, Dr Rauh was a member of the senior executive team for the integration of Millipore in the Merck organisation.

In his last position, Dr Rauh served as Senior Vice President and Head of Lab Essentials Merck Millipore and was General Manager at Merck Bioscience GmbH and Schuchardt oHG.

Since July 2013 Dr. Rauh founded the Panthaleon Strategy Management GmbH where he is acting as the general manager.