Henrik leads diligence and valuation at Meridian Crest Advisory, which he co-founded in 2025. Twenty-two years of transaction services experience prior to founding the firm, with senior-partner tenure in KPMG's German transaction advisory practice and earlier years at Roland Berger. Henrik's engagement profile is anchored in DACH industrial and business-services platforms — particularly buy-side diligence for Asian acquirers entering the German Mittelstand and sell-side preparation for German owners running auctions to Asian counterparties. He authored Meridian Crest's internal QoE methodology and is the firm's second signatory on every fairness opinion.
How Henrik works
Engagement profile and signature questions.
Henrik typically anchors the diligence team in Frankfurt. His engagement profile concentrates on cross-border DACH industrial and business-services transactions where the buyer or seller sits in Greater China. His signature questions are working-capital sustainability, off-balance-sheet exposure, and the cross-border accounting reconciliation that determines whether a buy-side reading of the numbers will hold under audit. He is the firm's second signatory on every fairness opinion and the partner clients reach for when the diligence question is whether a number will defend in mediation.
We do not publish client names, deal values, or transaction counts. References available on request, under NDA.
Perspectives
Recent reading from Henrik.
- Practitioner Note
Why QoE Reports Are Getting Longer (And What That Means for Sellers)
A practitioner's note on the inflation of QoE scope, what it tells you about cross-border buyers, and how DACH sellers should respond when preparing for a process with Asian counterparties.
By Henrik Bergmann6 min read - Practitioner Note
Cross-Border Carve-Outs: A DACH–Asia Practitioner's Field Guide
What separates a clean cross-border DACH–Asia carve-out from a punishing one — drawn from observations across European industrial conglomerates, German Mittelstand sellers, and Asian acquirers operating in the corridor.
By Henrik Bergmann9 min read
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