Member of the Board & Partners

Nikolaus Färber is as sole board member/Partner responsible for transactional process consulting and optimization in the Financial Advisory area. His consulting focus in this regard is in particular carve-out process advisory, post merger integration and international M&A projects. In addition to these topics, Nikolaus Färber advises on national and international accounting issues as well as on issues relating to the internal control system. His long-standing clients include globally active industrial companies, numerous publicly listed companies, family-run groups of companies as well as private equity funds. Before Nikolaus Färber joined WTS, he worked until 2010 as an auditor for Ernst & Young in the area of international assurance.

Nina Blume is a certified public accountant and tax advisor and has been working for WTS in the Financial Reporting division of WTS Advisory since 2022. Before joining WTS, she worked for many years at EY in auditing and audit-related consulting. Most recently, as a partner at the Hanover office, she was responsible for audit-related consulting in the Hanover/Lower Saxony/Bremen region. Here, Nina Blume advised national and international medium-sized groups as well as listed companies in various industries with a focus on energy companies, tourism, manufacturing and public investments. Her professional consulting focus is on the set-up, optimization and automation of annual financial statement and reporting processes, the introduction of financial and non-financial reporting processes, accounting and reporting issues according to HGB and IFRS as well as IFRS conversions and the introduction of new IFRS standards. 
Nina Blume is also managing director of WTS Advisory GmbH.

Dr. Rainer Doll has been partner at the WTS Group since 2013 and partner at WTS Advisory, a WTS Group company, since July 2017. In the Financial Advisory area, he is responsible for the Restructuring service line. His main areas of expertise include the creation of restructuring and reorganization concepts, the support of transaction and transformation processes as well as the interim assumption of management functions as CEO, CFO and CRO. Over the past 18 years, Dr. Doll has supported many large and medium-sized companies in the areas of turnaround management, (re-)financing as well as in the planning and implementation of corporate transactions and succession arrangements. Before joining WTS and WTS Advisory, Dr. Doll worked for the consulting companies Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner and goetzpartners for many years. He studied business administration at the LMU Munich and received his doctorate there.

Michèle Färber has been with WTS Advisory since September 2022 and heads the Financial Services division (incl. Corporate Treasury Accounting Services) as well as the Sustainability Services of WTS Advisory. In addition, she loves to think about new ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into consulting or for her clients and to develop them with the WTS AI team.

Her consulting focus is on accounting consulting according to IFRS and HGB as well as sustainability reporting. Together with her team, she also covers banking regulatory issues. She supports her clients in ongoing financial reporting and regulatory reporting as well as in the transformation and introduction of new regulations. She is an auditor, Sustainability Auditor (IDW), CFA Charterholder and GRI Certified Sustainability Professional and has been advising or auditing her mostly international and global clients for more than 20 years.

Before joining WTS, she led the Insurance Accounting Advisory Services at PwC from 2016 to 2022 and assisted primary insurance and reinsurance companies with the introduction of IFRS 9 and IFRS 17 on major projects, most of which lasted several years. Prior to that, she spent 12 years at EY, where she worked in the banking audit department, in the Financial Services policy department and supported the development of corporate treasury consulting for large SME clients and capital market-oriented companies.

She is co-author of articles in the WP Handbook, in accounting commentaries and in specialist journals and lectures at various universities. 

Dr. Heiko Frank, Dipl.-Kfm. joined WTS Advisory as a partner on October 1, 2021. In the future, he will be responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions and Board Advisory Services. His focus is on a holistic advisory service along the entire transaction process - from M&A strategies and financing to due diligence and the coordination of contract negotiations and closing.

In his more than 30 years of professional experience, Dr. Frank has always worked in the field of "National & International Professional Services" as Managing Director, Board Member and Senior Partner. In addition to leadership and management roles in consulting & corporate finance companies, he has primarily acted in an advisory capacity for mid-cap companies and corporate groups. Dr. Heiko Frank is a member of the supervisory board of several medium-sized (listed) companies and has been a judge at the Regional Court of Augsburg since 2000.

Thomas Kupke is a partner at the Munich office of WTS Advisory in the Transaction Advisory division and Managing Director of WTS Advisory GmbH. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in corporate finance and M&A consulting, in investment management as well as in auditing and tax consulting. In doing so, he has supported international groups, medium-sized companies, family offices and investment companies in international projects. He advises key players in the preparation, implementation and safeguarding of corporate decisions as well as holistically in corporate transactions (including M&A consulting, due diligence, financial modeling, valuation, fairness opinions, PMI). Thomas Kupke also has expertise in valuations of companies and intangible assets for (corporate) legal, contractual and tax purposes as well as in the context of accounting (PPA, impairment test). Thomas Kupke studied business administration at the University of Regensburg and is a certified public accountant and tax consultant. Before joining WTS Advisory, he worked for a family office, for KPMG in deal advisory and for O&R.

Norbert Simmerling, economist, has been working for WTS Advisory at the Munich/Rosenheim offices in the area of Finance Transformation, Concepts & Systems since 2014. He studied at the University of Regensburg and spent several semesters in Canada. Before joining WTS, he worked for many years in the industrial environment. In addition to various commercial management positions, he was also responsible for various IT functions.

Norbert Simmerling advises international companies for WTS Advisory. His focus is on the creation of business concepts in combination with profound IT know-how in the area of changes in accounting. In doing so, companies are supported in SAP transformations - from the preparatory measures to the optimization of system-based processes to a successful launch of the new system. Special attention is paid to the standardization of financial processes, taking into account the respective business model. He can draw on more than 30 years of SAP experience in various industries.

Malaika Tetsch holds a degree in Business Administration and is a Chartered Accountant and joined WTS Advisory in August 2019. Prior to joining WTS, she worked for Big Four companies in audit and consulting as well as in industry for a large trading group. Most recently, Malaika Tetsch was responsible for risk management there. For WTS Advisory, she advises clients of various sizes and industries on governance, risk & compliance topics, especially in the area of risk management, internal control systems, compliance and internal audit. The focus is on the design, implementation, optimization and automation of the governance systems.

Harald v. Heynitz is working since mid-February 2020 as Managing Director at WTS Advisory Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH in the Financial Advisory division. Prior to that, he worked as an auditor, tax advisor and CPA with KPMG for over 30 years. As Global Lead Partner he has audited and advised mainly large international industrial groups. The focus of his advisory work is on US-GAAP and IFRS conversions, carve-outs, transformation projects in finance departments, the introduction and improvement of internal control and compliance systems as well as the optimization of accounting-related processes. In addition, he advises on the implementation of new accounting standards (e.g. IFRS 15 and 16), the solution of complex accounting issues and external reporting issues.

Natalie Wurms has been a partner of WTS Advisory since July 2024 and has many years of experience in advising companies of different industries and sizes regarding transaction-related projects, complex international accounting issues, process optimization in the finance department as well as challenges of sustainability reporting.

Hans-Georg Weber, auditor and tax consultant, has worked for WTS in the Financial Advisory area since 2010 and has been partner at WTS since 2012. Before joining WTS, Hans-Georg Weber worked for many years as a senior manager in auditing and consulting, mainly at PwC. In that capacity, he advised medium-sized companies in various industries as well as publicly listed corporations. The focal points of his consulting are accounting consulting according to the Commercial Code (HGB) and IFRS, consolidated financial statements, transaction consulting (financial due diligence, company valuation, plausibilization of business plans) and business management consulting. In addition, he has many years of experience in carve-out, post merger integration and quality assurance. Since WTS and WTS Advisory joined forces in 2017, Hans-Georg Weber has also been managing director of WTS Advisory GmbH.