Tobias Blaeser

Direction of international M&A transactions; negotiations with potential purchasers/their advisors; steering of stakeholders/advisors; financial due diligence analyses; modelling of business plannings; valuations on basis of DCF models/multiples; preparation/presentation of board decision documents; preparation/moderation of expert sessions; set-up/management of virtual data rooms; research on potential purchasers/targets.

In October 2023, Schaeffler AG made a public tender offer to acquire Vitesco Technologies AG (~40k employees, € 9.2bn revenues). The “Central Integration Office” orchestrated subsequent merger and integration activities of both companies. Structurally, the small team was implemented as an interface between both Executive Boards and all operational workstreams. Overseen workstreams: Synergies (focus on BD E-Mobility); Business Plan Schaeffler NEW, Americas, and Europe.

Management of sub-projects and leadership of Associates and Senior Associates; M&A secondment; sector team member for life science & chemicals; business valuation as to income and market approaches in context of M&A activities and IPOs; plausibility analysis of business plannings and underlying value drivers; peer group analysis; derivation of capital cost; modeling of complex financing structures; engagement in R-based new product development; contact for KPMG’s global Country Risk Premium Model.

Business valuation as to income and market approaches in context of M&A activities and IPOs; peer group analysis; derivation of capital cost; plausibility analysis of business plannings and underlying value drivers; engagement in R-based new product development; co-contact for KPMG’s global Country Risk Premium Model.

Analyses of industries and corporations; business segment valuation in context of potential transaction financing; KYC investigations; composition of presentations for product sales pitches.

Valuation of originary financial instruments (bonds, credit facilities, mezzanine) as to IFRS 9; system audits in context of EMIR; assistance in creation of test concept for TMS implementation; programming of macro to scrape FX information from websites; composition of presentations for multiple topics such as SAP S/4 HANA and SWIFT.

Valuation of miscellaneous derivative instruments (swaps, options, forwards) in Bloomberg; optimization of stochastic evaluation tool in context of factoring financing; system audits in context of EMIR; composition of presentations for multiple topics such as EMIR and MiFID II.

Management of diverse ad hoc inquiries; creation of new and automating of existing reporting structures on basis of VBA macros; execution of monthly management reports.

Market and competition analyses for the segments of DAX30 and DAX160; operative and strategic involvement in context of budget planning; programming of association analysis in R for recommender system; execution of financial reports in scope of partner bonus compensation process; management of diverse ad hoc inquiries.

(Grade of 1.0 / A)

Master’s Thesis | Credit Risk Modeling for Publicly Traded Corporations (Grade of 1.0 / A) // Overall Grade of 1.2 (Best of the Year)

Bachelor’s Thesis | Cash Pooling as an Instrument of the Liquidity Management (Grade of 1.3 / A-) // Overall Grade of 1.7

(2 Semesters)