About Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance is the German corporate-finance journal — the deals, the valuations, and the financing — published by the Fachmedien Otto Schmidt KG (Cologne). Since 2014 the magazine continues the Finanz-Betrieb tradition (1999–2009): the M&A, the private equity, the corporate valuation — the corporate finance's specialist press. The target group — the 2026 media data's definition — deserves its telling. The Kernzielgruppe (core target group) — the kaufmännische Geschäftsführer (CFOs), the Finanzabteilungen's executives (Finance Manager, Head of Finance, Leiter Rechnungswesen, Leiter Controlling), the Berater (the auditors' financial-services consultants, the corporate-finance advisors in banks and independent), the Leiter Treasury, the finance departments' staff — defines the readership: the financing's decision-makers. The Forschung und Lehre (research and teaching) — the academics — complete the audience: the science. The B2B precision — the media data's targeting — sells the advertisers: the banks, the auditors, the law firms — the corporate-finance industry's suppliers. The 8. Jahrgang 2026 — the eighth volume — marks the current title's count: the media data's continuity — the Preisliste Nr. 10 (rate card no. 10, valid from 1 January 2026) — the active business. The 2026 media data (Preisliste Nr. 10, 8. Jahrgang) documents the continuity: the active title.

Overview

The magazine serves the corporate-finance community: the CFOs, the finance-department executives (finance managers, heads of finance, accounting and controlling heads), the advisors (the auditors' financial-services consultants, the banks' and independents' corporate-finance advisors), the treasurers, the researchers and teachers. The editorial program covers the corporate finance's agenda: the M&A, the private equity, the management buyouts, the interest and liquidity management, the corporate valuation, the due diligence, the rating, the capital markets, the venture capital, the succession.

The corporate-finance discipline — the journal's subject — deserves its telling. The Corporate Finance — the companies' financing (the equity, the debt, the hybrids) — structures the deals: the M&A's funding, the buyouts' leverage. The Unternehmensbewertung — the corporate valuation — prices the transactions: the DCF, the multiples. The Due Diligence — the examination — de-risks the deals: the verification. The Private Equity — the financial investors — drives the buyouts: the leverage. The Venture Capital — the risk capital — funds the startups: the growth. The journal's readers — the CFOs' financing decisions — need the analysis: the structures, the markets, the law — the corporate finance's knowledge — the magazine's mission. The "rethinking finance" — the 2026 media data's title — signals the renewal: the finance's rethinking — the journal's currency. The reports — the five per-issue reports summarizing the news (financing report, founding report) — give the currency: the market. The judgment discussions, the analyses, the personnel, the book reviews — round the program: the profession's discourse. The online database — the subscription's login — serves the research: the archive.

History

The Finanz-Betrieb heritage — the 1999 to 2009 predecessor — deserves its telling. The Finanz-Betrieb (FB) — the May 1999 first issue, developed from the Zeitschrift Der Betrieb — served the corporate finance: 11 issues a year, the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. The four rubrics — Unternehmen (M&A, private equity, MBO, interest and liquidity management), Bewertung (corporate valuation, due diligence, rating, Basel II), Märkte (asset management, stock and capital markets, derivatives), Gründung (startup financing, venture capital, business angels, business plan, succession) — structured the field: the corporate finance's map. The Fachaufsätze — the scientists' and practitioners' specialist articles — gave the depth: the analysis. The five reports per issue — the Meldungen summarized and prepared — gave the currency: the financing report, the founding report. The supplements — the quarterly BewertungsPraktiker, the Finanz-Betrieb Newsdienst, the biweekly newsletter, the online database — extended the brand: the valuation practice, the news. The 2009 end — the last issue — closed the title: the 2010 successors' bridge. The interim titles — Corporate Finance Biz and Corporate Finance Law (2010–2013) — bridged the transition: the business and the law. The 2014 Corporate Finance — the unified title — consolidated the heritage: the deals' journal.

The Otto Schmidt transfer — the 2021 ownership change — deserves its telling. The Handelsblatt Media Group's strategic focus — the two core brands Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche — prompted the Fachmedien's transfer: the "ausreichend großes Synergieumfeld" (sufficiently large synergy environment) for the Fachmedien and its employees. The 1 January 2021 handover — the product brands Der Betrieb, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, Corporate Finance, the Owlit specialist database — moved to the Fachmedien Otto Schmidt KG: the new 100% subsidiary of the Cologne Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt (seat Düsseldorf). The "vollumfänglich fortgeführt" (fully continued) promise — the portfolio's continuation — secured the titles: the readers, the advertisers. The Handelsblatt Fachmedien brand — the licensed transitional use — faded: the Otto Schmidt's Fachmedien identity. The Cologne-Düsseldorf axis — the RWS specialist's Rhineland — houses the corporate-finance journalism: the deals' press, Rhenish. The Handelsblatt Fachmedien brand — licensed transitionally — phased out: the Otto Schmidt's Fachmedien. The 2026 media data — the 8th volume's rate card — documents the active publishing: the title's present.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the deals' rhythm. The Unternehmen coverage — the M&A, the private equity, the MBOs, the interest and liquidity management — treats the transactions: the deals. The Bewertung coverage — the corporate valuation, the due diligence, the rating — gives the numbers: the values. The Märkte coverage — the asset management, the stock and capital markets, the derivatives — analyzes the markets: the financing. The Gründung coverage — the startup financing, the venture capital, the business angels, the succession — addresses the beginnings and ends: the capital.

The report coverage — the five per-issue reports — summarizes the news: the financing, the founding. The legal coverage — the judgment discussions (the Corporate Finance Law heritage) — treats the law: the deals' framework. The people coverage — the personnel — tracks the industry: the advisors. The review coverage — the book reviews — serves the library: the literature.

Organization and Ownership

Corporate Finance is published by the Fachmedien Otto Schmidt KG, Düsseldorf (a 100% subsidiary of the Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG, Cologne) — since 1 January 2021, transferred from the Handelsblatt Fachmedien (the Handelsblatt Media Group's strategic focus on Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche). The Cologne house — the RWS (Recht, Wirtschaft, Steuern) specialist — gives the synergy: the legal-economic publishing. The brand portfolio — Der Betrieb, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, Corporate Finance, Owlit — serves the professions: the finance, the competition, the law.

The business model follows the specialist-press pattern: the subscriptions (the professionals), the advertising (the advisors, the banks, the auditors), the database (Owlit), the events. Detailed circulation and revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The magazine's digital home is corporate-finance.de: the corporate-finance news, the articles, the database access. The Owlit database — the digital research — deserves its telling. The Fachdatenbank Owlit — the specialist database (transferred with the 2021 portfolio) — archives the specialist content: the articles, the judgments — the research. The online database — the Finanz-Betrieb's login-accessible archive — pioneered the digital: the subscription's value-add. The corporate-finance.de portal — the row's website — publishes the news: the deals' currency. The newsletter — the regular dispatch — reaches the CFOs: the curated. The digital's logic — the print magazine's depth (the Fachaufsätze), the database's archive, the portal's news — serves the professionals: the financing's knowledge — the RWS specialist's digital — the corporate finance's media, complete. The newsletter — the regular dispatch — keeps the community current: the deals' news. The media data — the pages.fachmedien.de PDFs — documents the offers: the 2026 rate card.

The digital strategy follows the B2B logic: the print magazine for the deep deals coverage — the M&A, the valuation — the portal and the database for the daily news and the research. As the corporate-finance journal — the 2014-founded title (the 1999 Finanz-Betrieb's heir), published by Fachmedien Otto Schmidt — Corporate Finance remains the deals' press: the transactions, the structures, and the law — in print, online on corporate-finance.de.