Ralph Blaes, Managing Partner/Shareholder
Practice Areas
- Access to capital markets
- Accounting
- Acquisitions
- Agency & distributorships
- Audit & assurance
- Audits of financial statements
- Banking and Finance
- Budgeting & forecasts
- Business & strategic planning
- Business refinancings
- Business restructuring & recovery
- Business sales
- Business tax
- Business valuation
- CFO / financial outsourcing
- CFO and controllership support
- Company incorporation
- Company secretarial services
- Corporate finance
- Cross border cash planning
- Cross border inheritance tax planning
- Cross border M&A transactions
- Cross border payroll
- Cross border social security compliance & planning
- Cross border tax disputes
- De-mergers
- Employee benefit plan audits
- Employee benefits plans
- Estate planning, trusts & wealth management
- Family business services
- Family offices
- Financial & business advisory
- Financial reviews
- Indirect tax & VAT
- Indirect tax & VAT on cross border transactions
- International private client services
- International tax compliance
- International tax planning
- M&A due diligence
- Management buy outs (MBO)
- Mergers
- Non-domicile tax consulting
- Non-profit taxation
- Outbound & inbound investment structuring
- Outsourced accounting services
- Private client
- Reporting on accounting systems & internal controls
- Sales tax
- Tax Law
- Tax litigation
- Tax planning & preparation
- Tax returns for foreign nationals
- Tax structuring for international groups
- Transfer pricing
- Transition & succession services
- Internal audit & risk advisory
- Tax advisory & compliance
- VAT advisory & compliance
Sectors
- Banks
- Chemicals
- Construction
- Family businesses
- Financial services
- Industrial metals
- IT
- Media & marketing
- Natural resources & mining
- Not for profit organisations
- Oil and gas
- Partnerships
- Professional services
- Recruitment & executive search
- Retail & wholesale
- Tourism, leisure & hospitality
Biography
Born in 1961, Ralph decided after both the German and French A-Levels to study economic sciences and finished his studies in winter 1988/89 in Saarbruecken, Germany, where he specialized in accounting, business evaluation, merger and acquisitions, domestic and international taxation, management of companies and groups. He wrote his thesis about the "differences in audit in the United Kingdom, France and Germany". During his studies he passed the base training of Arthur Andersen, Germany, one of the former Big 6.
Ralphs career start was at a German group Accountants, Auditors, Tax and Business Consultants and lawyers specializing in family owned businesses, where I ended up becoming one of the seven majority partners at the age of 37. The group had 700 staff at the time and Ralph was managing partner in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dillingen and Saarbrucken.
Ralph left this group and founded the actis group at the age of 41 in 2003. Since we rejoined Alliott Group in 2003, Ralph became Deputy Chair and later Chair of the EMEA region and part of the Worldwide Board of the group.
We specialize in domestic and international consulting of companies and groups, including family owned businesses, trusts and foundations and public institutions in the fields of strategy, organization, due diligence, corporate finance, restructuring, recruitment and personal development, accounting and taxation. Main business sectors are the nutrition industry, real estate, media, recycling, IT, health care, financial services and public institutions.