Due Diligence

Risks, value drivers, and decision points uncovered during buy-side and sell-side diligence.

Family Offices for U.S. Persons Living in Germany & the EU

A Transatlantic Governance Architecture (Transnationale Vermögens-Governance-Struktur) 1. The Jurisdictional Fragmentation Problem (Zersplitterung der Zuständigkeiten) When a U.S. person relocates to Germany or the broader EU, the economic reality rarely migrates in parallel with the legal reality. The individual becomes resident in one regulatory ecosystem while their capital stack remains embedded in another. The result is

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Due diligence doesn’t fail because of missing data — it fails because of missing judgment

In most transactions, diligence teams are thorough, competent, and well-intentioned. Data rooms are full. Advisors are engaged. Checklists are covered. And yet, deals still derail late — sometimes painfully late. Not because something was “missed,” but because what mattered never became clear enough, early enough, to guide a decision. The real failure mode: information without

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