A Partner at Your Side

At DS Corporate Finance, we support small and medium-sized businesses with clear, results-driven financial advice — across fundraising, restructuring, and mergers & acquisitions. Our approach is hands-on and sharply focused on delivering value.

We are equally experienced in advising mid-market corporates, offering discreet, pragmatic advice on complex financial matters.

Since 2019, we have executed a broad range of financing and restructuring mandates, working in close collaboration with all of Germany’s top 5 private banks, as well as regional Sparkassen and Volksbanken. Our track record spans across Germany — from Lake Constance to Schleswig, from Münsterland to Brandenburg — with cross-border transactions extending into Tyrol, Austria and the Aargau region, Switzerland. Nonetheless, our roots are in Düsseldorf, West-Germany.

We maintain a 100% success rate in securing public-sector-backed finance, particularly in partnership with state guarantor banks, AWS and KfW. This is complemented by a strong network of mezzanine capital providers, inventory finance specialists, and alternative debt sources across continental Europe, the UK, Ireland, and North America.

Our clients value our ability to combine financial precision with commercial insight — delivering not only transactions, but long-term outcomes.

Dr David Schirrmacher earned a BSc in Management from EBS Business School, a Master in International Business from ESCP Business School, and an MSc in Banking & Finance from King’s College London (with Distinction). He completed his doctorate in Finance with stations at Trinity College Dublin and Golden Gate University San Francisco. For his research, he was awarded the Outstanding Student Award of his graduate class. He holds a positions as lecturer in finance at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Since 2019, Dr Schirrmacher has been active as a corporate finance advisor. He also regularly takes on long-term mandates as Chief Financial Officer and as a board advisor.

He supports financing rounds with proven expertise in the development of robust financial models and the establishment of sustainable financial and accounting structures. His direct mandates include company sales, acquisitions, and valuations.

His three-part anthology Entrepreneurial Excellence was published in March 2025 and is available in German bookstores and internationally via the publisher’s website.