Decision-grade data gives you a complete, current, and reliable view to find, qualify, and track private companies across the UK and Germany.
Ownership search
Search the ownership, not just the company
Shareholders, persons with significant control, holding sizes and the full group structure through to the ultimate owner — with cap-table detail readable enough to tell a succession setup from an exit setup before you make the approach.
Cross-border chains
Follow the chain across the UK and Germany
Both markets on the same platform and the same classification, so a structure that crosses the border keeps resolving instead of ending at it — and the corporate-structure slide holds up in the pitch.
Thin-filer insight
Qualify a company that files almost nothing
Headcount trajectory, growth and distress signals, charges and secured lenders, grants and patents — plus fundraisings picked up from shareholder filings that were never announced. Enough to size and rank a target that publishes no accounts.
Common challenges faced by corporate finance teams
Two shareholders in their sixties holding an even split. A holding company assembled quietly last year. A surname that appears twice on the register. These are the configurations that precede a sale, and no database lets you ask for them directly.
The register shows a holding company, and that’s where the trail ends. But the person who decides whether to sell sits further up the chain — and approaching a five-percent chief executive instead of the controlling shareholder wastes the one introduction you get.
A domestic provider follows the tree until the ultimate owner turns out to be foreign, then stops. When the corporate-structure slide is a deliverable in every pitch deck, a chain that ends at the border is a commercial problem, not an inconvenience.
You expect a company to appear and it doesn’t, while a dozen that don’t fit the profile do. Official codes resolve half the market to “other”, so screening falls back on reading websites and estimating headcount by hand.
Below the filing threshold there are no real accounts, and what does exist is often two years old. Headcount ends up the only usable barometer of size and direction — and it has to be tracked from somewhere else.
Structure from one provider, contacts from another, deal history from a third, enrichment from a fourth. Every longlist is a reconciliation exercise before it is a piece of analysis.
Help your team find and win mandates quicker, retain hard-won clients, and read the market with confidence.
Use cases
What corporate finance teams use Beauhurst for
“Beauhurst has enhanced our ability to map, track, and engage with acquisition targets across the UK and Germany.”
Joshua BurdassM&A Assistant Manager
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