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Personal data
Name: Martin Thomas Kocybik
Residence: Düsseldorf, Germany
Place of birth: Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Date of birth: 4 January 1980
Professional experience
Since 10/2011 Baker Tilly Roelfs AG Wirtschaftsprüngsgesellschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Promotion to Senior Manager Mergers & Acquisitions in January 2013.

Selected transaction and project experience:
  • Advisor to Siemens AG on its disposal of Siemens Gusstechnik GmbH (iron foundry activities) to the owner of Franken Guss Kitzingen GmbH & Co. KG (foundry/mechanical engineering, 2013)
  • Advisor to the owner of tecops personal GmbH on the disposal of his shares to Allgeier SE (IT/business services, 2012)
  • Advisor to the owner of plastic-design GmbH on the sale of a majority share to Nanogate AG (automotive, 2012)

Coordination of buy- and sell-side due diligence projects as well as preparation of company valuations (Discounted Cash-flow, CCA/CTA-Multiple Valuation)

10/2005 - 9/2011 Ernst & Young Corporate Finance Beratung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Since Oct. 2009 Manager Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory, authorized representative ("Prokurist"), project-, and team-manager.

Selected transaction and project experience:
  • Advisor to the shareholders of a leading German staffing service provider (Top 10) on its disposal of a minority share to a private equity investor (staffing/business services, 2010)
  • Advisor to Dutch TNT Post on its sale of TNT Post Direktwerbung (advertising leaflet distribution) to its Management Team (media/logistics, 2009/2010)
  • Advisor to German Rösler Tyre Group on its acquisition of a tyre retread facility in Australia from Rio Tinto (automotive, 2009)
  • Advisor to the shareholders of a leading German medical laboratory service provider to prepare the disposal process (health care, 2009)
  • Advisor to Dutch/German Brinkhof Group International on its sale of all operational entities to Findos Investor (staffing/business services, 2007)
  • Advisor to the shareholders of Boetronic GmbH on its sale to Tuja Zeitarbeit (staffing/business services, 2006)
  • Advisor to BASF in its sale/carve-out of a special plastics operation (chemicals, 2005/2006)
  • Advisor in several buy- and sell-side projects in the industries chemicals, paper & packaging, retail, plastics, staffing services, and engineering

External in-house M&A project manager for TNT Post Germany (June 2007 to June 2008):
  • Execution of more than 20 buy-side transactions (majorities, asset deals, and minorities) in the German addressed and unaddressed mail market
  • Execution of more than 15 strategic alliances
  • Coordination of M&A projects, management of Head Office's approval processes, due diligence coordination, implementation of capital measures, and valuations
7/2003 - 10/2003 Internship strategic controlling / M&A at ThyssenKrupp Services AG, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  • Preparation of M&A project documentations / data gathering
  • Support of segment-oriented risk reporting
  • Business performance analysis and performance reporting
Selected publications
  • "Wert- und Risikomanagement durch Kaufpreismechanismen in Unternehmenskaufverträgen; Betrachtung rechtlicher Mechanismen aus wirtschaftlicher Perspektive" with B. Rehbein, A. Gildemeister and A. Metzner, in: M&A Review 11/2013
  • "Phase neuer Unsicherheit - Aussichten deutlich eingetrübt; Aktuelle M&A Marktentwicklung 2011 und Ausblick" with A. Rautenberg, in: GoingPublic 1/2012
  • Co-Author of several studies on the German temporary staffing market, published by Baker Tilly Roelfs and Ernst & Young
Further Skills
Experience with several Research-Databases, e.g. Factiva, OneSource, Bloomberg, MARKUS, AMADEUS, Thomson ONE Banker, LexisNexis, and mergermarket
MS-Office, esp. Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint as well as Lotus Notes and Ubuntu Linux
German (native), English (fluent), French (basic)
Further work experience
11/2001 - 6/2005 Student assistant to the Professor for Business Administration, esp. Controlling ("Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. Controlling") Prof. Dr. Dirrigl at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
7/2000 - 8/2000 Accounting internship Marienhospital Gelsenkirchen GmbH
7/1999 - 6/2000 Civil service in the administration of a children's home.
Education
10/2000 - 4/2005 Economics and Business Administration ("Wirtschaftswissenschaft") at university of Bochum ("Ruhr-Universität Bochum"), Bochum, Germany
  Degree: Graduate degree ("Diplom-Ökonom", equivalent to Master degree)
  Majors: Controlling, International Accounting, Advanced Microeconomics, and Inter-industry Economic Policy
2/2003 - 5/2003 Diploma thesis: "Concepts of post-acquisition performance analysis from an internal and external accounting perspective"

1986 - 1999 Basic, primary, and secondary school
  Degree: General qualification for university entrance ("allgemeine Hochschulreife", equivalent to A-levels)

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