For over 25 years, Ziems & Partner has been a leading specialist in the restructuring market, providing targeted support to companies facing multi-dimensional, corporate challenges.

Identifying, understanding, and analysing existing as well as potential risks is a highly complex task difficult to solve internally — in particular alongside day-to-day business operations. Making the right decisions at the right time, it is essential implementing both a holistic entrepreneurial perspective and sound expertise in crisis management for creating substantial turnaround-momentum.

Essential to Ziems & Partners’ engagement is an executive board function within the corporate management, ensuring optimal control and coordination of all necessary restructuring measures.

At the core of Ziems & Partner’s strategy work lies the comprehensive analysis of all potential crisis-related factors and their impact. The restructuring team operates in close alignment with the client’s management, setting a reciprocal focus on developing and implementing measures to restore stable corporate success.

Tailored to the individual needs of each client, the solutions cover all aspects of business operations holistically — from risk minimisation to process optimisation and cost reduction to restoring market competitiveness. All measures of restructuring are managed by a respective specialist, ensuring pre-eminent efficiency as well as qualitative functionality.

Since founded in 1996, Ziems & Partner has excelled in achieving sustainable prospects by crafting thorough and unique restructuring concepts. Paramount to the common objective is the continuation of corporate activities. The lasting success of turnaround-momentum is driven by the principles of pragmatism and expertise. Transcending beyond mere consulting, crisis navigation means taking complete responsibility for profound restructuring — discreetly, efficiently on site, precisely where expert knowledge is required.

After studying business administration in Cologne, Hans-Joachim Ziems becomes managing director of a consumer electronics retail chain. In 1984, he establishes his own company, expanding it into a corporate group counting a revenue of 3 billion German Marks and 7,000 employees. By 1995, Hans-Joachim Ziems divests his enterprise, redirecting his focus towards restructuring businesses facing crisis — the inception of Ziems & Partner.

From the onset, the aim of service is ensuring the operational continuity of larger companies facing imminent bankruptcy or insolvency. Uncompromising, precise cause-effect analysis of all success-hindering factors as well as the development and implementation of restructuring measures for powerful recovery has continuously evolved as the core of our work — evidenced by the successful handling of numerous mandates.

After assuming management in self-administration of the Kirch Media Group, the performance focus concentrates even more on averting insolvency scenarios, or, if inevitable, utilising insolvency law instruments for sustainable corporate restructuring.

Over time, Ziems & Partner has successfully undertaken management mandates in over 100 cases — ranging from medium-sized companies to major corporations — often serving as CRO or CFO. Selected clients include prominent market leaders such as Kirch Media, Merckle Ratiopharm, Pfleiderer, Nolte, Zimbo, Qimonda, Nici, Knaus Tabbert, ATU, NKD, PIN, IVG, Kathrein, and Leoni.

Discretion, outstanding analytical capabilities, strategic implementation strength, and excellent networks — fostered by a decade of proficiency in the sector — are the foundations which our unique offering for all challenges in the restructuring market is built on.

The partnership’s capacity has been increased by the appointment of further restructuring specialists as of January 2024 — enabling the establishment of multiple restructuring teams, each led by experienced CRO’s.