The next level for the most successful consulting firms
Our radical new model positions entrepreneurship and the interconnectedness of our independent partners at the very heart of our corporate alliance, thus opening up outstanding, previously untapped potential for success. Welcome to the premier league!
Your advantages at a glance
As a member of Afileon, you benefit from our unique service company, acquire access to our exceptional pool of knowledge and resources, and can concentrate fully on your clients' challenges. Through this collaboration, we will strengthen the viability of your organization, further improve the excellence of your guidance, and give you precisely the personal and creative freedom you desire.
Real participation
As a partner, you hold a stake in the entire company and benefit from our shared success
Digitization power
We invest in cementing your leading market position: with sophisticated software, innovative tools and the best IT for your specific needs.
People love it
We inspire employees – with our advanced seminars and training, an enthusiasm for technology, a sense of community, and an innovative spirit.
A charismatic brand
Afileon is committed to a powerful, visible and consistent brand identity that benefits every member of its alliance.
Expertise for everyone
We coordinate our activities and thus mutually benefit from the depth and breadth of our services.
Satisfied clients
Our goal is to make even our best affiliates even better – and their clients even happier
Always on your side – our service company
We pledge to strengthen you and your company at every level. Above all, we achieve this through energetic support from our high-performance service company, which is managed by a council of experts (incidentally, yet another of our USPs). Being an elected body, its focus is constantly trained on supporting the work the affiliates. Nor is there any charge for its input. You can benefit from its support in four very specific areas.
Thanks to a standardized technical substructure and innovative technologies, we drive digitalization and the integration of AI at your organizations. We also take steps to ensure smooth operation when evolving our hardware and software, enabling you to profitably leverage any potential for automation. In this way, we also boost your appeal as an employer among dynamic, tech-savvy employees.
We support new affiliates with comprehensive onboarding for employees and a quick-win analysis based on best practices.
In addition to reviewing your IT system, we optimize areas such as time recording, billing, capacity planning, and the consistency of engagement letters.
Our strong employer brand, centralized HR marketing, and proactive searches for skilled candidates will make a real difference in the success of your own recruiting and training programmes. You will, of course, continue to make the final decisions on all personnel issues.
As an affiliate in our alliance, you benefit from an optimized website with a signature corporate look, diverse types of marketing support, and – given the potential for cross-selling – a broader range of services.
From the very outset, we were impressed by the candid, cordial interaction and openness of everyone involved. The idea of belonging to a strong community with an enormous range of consulting expertise inspired us. Afileon not only contributes added efficiency and future-proofing, but also allows us real participation in an innovative business model that brings benefits for the firm's everyday operations and employees, and fuels the growth we then share.
Melanie Migge-Lehmann
von Arps-Aubert Steuerberatung
As an accountant, and hence a sceptic by profession, I initially had some reservations. But now I am positively surprised at everything that is happening with Afileon and its partner firms! For us as a medium-sized tax and assurance services provider, Afileon offers a great opportunity to retain our identity and yet be part of an innovative, strong alliance.
Claudia Breitschaft
SH+C
I feel proud to have been able to actively shape Afileon from its very inception.
Dr. iur. Walter Schwarz
SchwarzPartners
Our firm is highly specialized in criminal and non-criminal tax law. We advise clients nationwide and beyond from bases in Cologne and Zurich. We and Afileon have common aspirations and the ability to provide premium tax advice. As such, we are perfectly positioned to complement the alliance in the aforementioned areas and thus round off the Afileon service portfolio. We also expect AI to generate unique opportunities and streamline work processes for both us and our clients over the coming years. That said, this will require significant investments that can be realized far more quickly within a large group.
Dr. Ingo Heuel
LHP Gruppe
We came to Afileon because we were convinced that we could offer our clients even more as part of a strong alliance. Thanks to the combined expertise of the top specialists in our group, we can continue to provide first-class service – even for major accounts. At the same time, we are joining forces to actively chart the future of tax consulting together – by harnessing state-of-the-art technology, artificial intelligence, digitalization, and automation. In this way, we are not only shaping change. We are also setting new standards in innovative and future-oriented consulting.
Michael Mertens
Mertens Schabow
What I particularly like about Afileon is that I get the best of both worlds: I can retain my firm’s freedom and autonomy while also benefitting from the combined resources of a strong corporate alliance.
Georg Pößl
Pößl GmbH
As part of the Afileon network, we at bks partners can call on the support of a strong community of 22 affiliates with some 850 professionals at 31 locations. This enhances our recruitment potential, opens up first-class training opportunities and gives our team a flexible choice of location. What is more, our clients receive top expertise from an array of taxation, assurance and legal specialists – all from a single source. At the same time, we can retain our local roots and operate independently. In a nutshell: With Afileon, we are taking our organization to a new level.
Hannah Hildebrand, Alexander Knagge, Burkhard Lohmann
bks partners
We are at Afileon because we can leverage a powerful network to build a successful future for our firm. Together, we are priming our employees for our segment's changing requirements – and for a modern law firm that strives to provide the very best tax advice.
Armin Weitkamp
Weitkamp Hirsch & Kollegen
Wir sind Mitglied von Afileon, weil wir überzeugt sind, dass Steuerberatung mehr kann – und mehr muss. Digitalisierung, Künstliche Intelligenz und innovative Weiterbildung sind keine Zukunftsvisionen mehr, sondern der Schlüssel zu nachhaltigem Erfolg für unsere Mandanten und Mitarbeiter.
Martin Noack
TLC
We joined Afileon due to our conviction that tax advisors can – and must – do more. Digitalization, artificial intelligence and innovative training are no longer visions of a distant future, but the concrete key to sustainable success for our clients and employees today. I enjoy being part of Afileon because its array of experts offers our clients considerable added value in their everyday operations – and in the tax-related and civil-law issues they entail.
Oliver Bartsch
Bartsch & Kollegen und Conrad, Bartsch & Kollegen
The decision to join Afileon is based on our firm conviction that close cooperation between financially successful and reputable firms means huge added value for our clients – as well as for us. That is doubly the case if the firms have multiple focuses spanning tax, assurance and law. We have been tracking the increasing need for holistic advice for years now. The combination with traditional personal service backed by a professional network has become the most important success factor for our firm.
Jessica Neubeck
Garlich, Müller & Partner GmbH, Haan
I’m with Afileon because being an affiliate allows me to make my vision a reality – with the security of knowing that I have strong alliance at my side.
Holger Petersen
TAXFBA
The decision to join the Afileon alliance was a strategic step for us. In an increasingly complex legal and commercial world, it is key for us to be able to draw on its expertise and diverse consulting focuses at any time. This allows us to offer our clients tailor-made solutions even for major challenges. Being part of the alliance also facilitates more efficiency in our administrative and organizational duties. This frees us up to concentrate fully on the essentials: our clients and their concerns.
Uwe Komm and Stefan Rose
BM Partner Revision GmbH
Your path to Afileon
In addition to annual turnover upwards of EUR 2.5 million and a solid earnings structure, our paramount interest lies with partners who want to grow with their company and help shape the future of both their firms and our alliance.
Check?
Get in touch and we’ll give you the full rundown on our model over a personal chat – from the calculation of the purchase price to your investment options. The next step is an LOI.
Once we’ve agreed on the modalities, we enter a careful due diligence phase together and review your firm. If there are no obstacles to an acquisition, we draw up the agreements.
After closing the deal, we lose no time before launching our valuable, structured onboarding process. You get to experience how much we care about our shared success from day one.
We look forward to telling you more!
Arrange a personal meeting with us and discover everything you need to know about our company, how we work together as equals and the prospects for your law firm.