If you have a complex Corporate Finance task ahead of you, calling for a highly professional, discreet and focused solution, we are ready to listen carefully. If you also require a loyal corporate finance advisor that does not crack under pressure, offering no-nonsense, straight-forward analytics and creative problem solving, we should talk.
Jan P. Weidner, Managing Partner WEIDNER ADVISORY
Experience is a virtue that requires time and hard work.
Over 30 years of experience in international investment banking taught me to focus on the essentials. In particular to concentrate on only one agenda: Yours.
Complex Corporate Finance projects regularly require a careful consideration of critical issues and conflicts of interest. It is my task to solve them in your very own interest. That requires to make no compromises which mandates I will take on and execute, to completely work in your interest.
WEIDNER ADVISORY is a private business. You will always speak to me personally. With over 30 years in the business at some of the leading institutions in investment banking and over 100 successfully executed mandates in a variety of industries and products, I am by now able to quickly immerse myself into different business models, complex corporate finance tasks and topics, in order to carefully prepare projects and lead them successfully.
My clients will be happy to give you references.
Also, you will neither hear me talking about clients and mandates in public, nor read about it in the press. Discretion is a rare commodity.
It is the quality of the entire team, that makes the difference in our projects.
My firm is deeply embedded into a strong network of highly professional partners, amongst them investment banks, law firms, communication experts, engineers, IT experts, industry advisors and human resource specialists that match my own high standards. That allows the project team to cover all aspects of a complex corporate finance project and offer bespoke solutions. I strongly believe that the quality and careful selection of your project team is a key ingredient for the ultimate success.
Complex and difficult tasks require seamless teamwork and friction-free execution, likewise between client and advisor but also within the advisory team. I am not only an advisor but also experienced project leader. Straight, professional and always acting on your behalf throughout all project phases, above and beyond the tasks at hand. I strongly believe that only an advisor who has all issues in mind, big and small, can offer convincing and sustainable solutions.
A strong partnership can take a no for an answer at times.
Corporate finance transactions almost always create pressure and friction because there is a lot at stake for you as a client. Problem solving under pressure, handling emotions sensibly and always acting in your interest, is part of my job. In over 30 years in this profession, I have learned to withstand pressure and moreover use it to my clients’ advantage. Thus, I would allow myself to say no if I am of the opinion, it is time to do so. Because loyalty means for me, to challenge your individual decisions for the benefit of your defined ultimate goals. However, if the course has been set, I will go with you all the way, down to the last mile. Even when it becomes difficult. Because the core of every transaction I engage in is trust, respect and loyalty.
If this approach is for you, we should talk. What I can do for you, we will both learn in a good, joint conversation.
Side Note
Jan P. Weidner is Managing Partner and owner of Weidner Advisory since 2019 and Senior Advisor to Rothschild & Co. and Quadriga Capital. In his function he is advising on corporate finance and M&A mandates for bespoke clients.
His portfolio of transactions includes over 100 M&A- und capital markets transactions in sectors such as consumer, media & sports; industrials, healthcare; energy, infrastructure, utilities and financial institutions, debt advisory, restructuring and advising the public sector.
Jan P. Weidner started his career in 1986 at JP Morgan in Frankfurt and New York, before moving over to BHF-Bank, leading their investment banking operations in Prague. In 1994 he joined Morgan Stanley in Frankfurt and London, eventually heading their M&A division in Germany and Austria, as Managing Director and Executive Board Member. In 2002 he joined Drueker & Co. as equity partner, leading the company into the merger with Leonardo & Co. in 2007, where he became member of the European management board. In 2011 he joined the Blackstone Group as Senior Managing Director, responsible for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, until the demerger of the advisory division in 2015. He returned to Leonardo & Co. to support the sale of the group to Houlihan Lokey.
Jan has a master’s degree in economics from Goethe University, Frankfurt/M. and received an academic scholarship from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
He is married for over 30 years and has two adult sons.
Since 2002 he is an adjunct professor at the banking chair of Goethe University, Frankfurt/M., and winner of the award for teaching excellence numerous times.
As a former member of the Bundesliga swim team of SG Frankfurt and letterman of the University of Wisconsin swim team he is still working on his biggest personal challenge, to continuously improve his backstroke and freestyle swimming skills.
Contact
WEIDNER ADVISORY GmbH
Owner: Jan P. Weidner
Holzhausenstraße 31
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 69 24450058
Mobile: +49 173 7018589
Fax: +49 69 24450056
E-Mail: jan.weidner@weidneradvisory.com
Web: www.weidneradvisory.com