atania continues its dynamic growth trajectory: LKC joins the Group with more than 30 firms

• atania integrates LKC as a further cornerstone of the platform founded in 2025.
• The LKC Group contributes an association of more than 30 firms with around 700 employees to the Group; the firms’ entrepreneurial independence will be maintained.
• Bavaria and Berlin: LKC combines local proximity with high-quality advisory services for the mid-market.

Munich, March 9, 2026. The platform atania, launched last year by GREENPEAK Partners together with AC CHRISTES & PARTNER (ACP) and THE MAKERY, continues its growth trajectory. With the accession of the LKC Group [– subject to regulatory approvals –], atania gains one of the leading players in the southern German market for tax advisory and audit services.

Founded more than 30 years ago in Munich, LKC has developed into one of the leading groups in the southern German market through dynamic growth — particularly through the targeted acquisition and successful integration of established high-quality firms. Today, LKC serves a broad portfolio of approximately 25,000 clients with around 700 employees at more than 30 locations.

A new era of mid-market advisory: responding to market change

Traditional tax advisory is undergoing profound transformation. While mid-sized companies face massive pressure to digitalize their business models and meet continuously increasing reporting and transparency requirements, the advisory industry itself is confronted with new structural challenges.

High market fragmentation, investment requirements, a lack of technological innovation expertise, and industry-wide succession issues pose significant challenges — particularly for owner-managed firms. atania breaks with these patterns and creates a scalable platform for sustainable growth.

An interdisciplinary powerhouse for tax advisory, audit, transactions and transformation projects for the mid-market

atania offers clients and partners a long-term framework that combines regional proximity with specialized expertise and digitalization. While regional centers and local units ensure deep understanding of local economies, specialized teams in larger hubs consolidate expert knowledge in areas such as transactions, international tax law, and valuation.

As a holistic one-stop shop, atania supports its clients throughout all growth cycles — from solid tax and audit foundations to highly complex specialist matters, for which smaller firm structures often lack the necessary capacity or expertise. Additional specialists in various fields are to be integrated step by step.

Continuity and growth through a partnership model: LKC comes on board

The founding shareholders Nicolas Kemper, Dr. Stefan Berz and Dr. Franz-Stephan von Gronau, who have shaped LKC’s development for over three decades, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership with atania. The goal is to lead LKC into its next phase of development as part of the atania Group and further strengthen its joint positioning as a leading platform.

Continuity in leadership will be preserved: the three founders will continue, as managing directors of LKC Holding, to actively shape the Group’s strategic development. This ensures the retention of longstanding expertise while strengthening successful local operations.

A key pillar of the collaboration is maintaining LKC’s decentralized identity and strong client proximity. atania will deliberately strengthen existing structures at the more than 30 locations and support them with group-wide resources and expertise. The firms will remain operationally independent and continue to be entrepreneurially managed by their local partners.

The strategic collaboration is also reflected at the leadership level: Nicolas Kemper will join the atania leadership team as an additional managing director.

Synergies through technology and “next-door presence”

The strategic collaboration aims to provide clients with even better service through the use of modern IT solutions. atania will provide the technological infrastructure to automate tax advisory and audit processes and refine them through AI-supported analytics.

Digitized client workflows and integrated processes create a robust data foundation and modern reporting solutions. This relieves advisors of administrative tasks and creates space for the personal, entrepreneurial proximity that has characterized LKC for more than 30 years.

Through the planned merger, the partners combine their complementary strengths:

• LKC acts as a regional hub for Southern Germany and Berlin, focusing on high-quality tax advisory and audit services.
• ACP contributes its long-standing expertise in tax advisory, particularly as a specialist in transaction advisory and data-driven audit.
• THE MAKERY complements the Group with expertise in advising large international mandates, listed companies, and complex structuring matters.

Statements on the partnership

“With GREENPEAK and atania, we have found partners who share our vision of a modern, agile advisory group. It was crucial for us that individual client support in our firms continues to be shaped by local partners. At the same time, we consolidate our expertise where technology truly makes a difference. We preserve our character as a dynamic family of firms and combine it with the scaling effects of a market leader to consistently increase added value for our clients.”
Nicolas Kemper, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, LKC

“With LKC, we have gained a partner that combines professional excellence with deep human trust. Nicolas Kemper, Dr. Stefan Berz and Dr. Franz-Stephan von Gronau are not only highly successful entrepreneurs but also friends who have demonstrated reliability for more than 30 years. Their accession substantially strengthens atania, particularly in implementing our growth strategy in the DACH region.”
–Carsten Kniephoff, Spokesperson of the atania Partnership and Managing Partner at ACP

“The integration of LKC is outstanding proof of the attractiveness of our platform strategy. With LKC, atania gains a strong and renowned partner in Bavaria and Berlin, strategically expanding its service portfolio and footprint. As a sparring partner, we support atania in actively shaping the industry and future-proofing high-quality advisory services through modern technologies.”
Robert Latz, Partner at GREENPEAK Partners

About atania

atania is an independent platform initiated by GREENPEAK Partners for tax advisory, audit, transactions, transformation, and related services. Founded in 2025, the Group primarily serves mid-sized companies in Germany and beyond.

As a one-stop shop, the Group bundles the expertise of its partners while building a shared technology platform that delivers noticeably better, faster, and more transparent services to clients. Partners remain entrepreneurially independent but benefit from capital, technology, a shared brand, and a structured framework for growth and succession.
Further information: www.atania.com

About LKC

LKC is a dynamically operating group of firms founded more than 30 years ago by Nicolas Kemper, Dr. Stefan Berz and Dr. Franz-Stephan von Gronau. It sees itself as an association of independent locations operating under the umbrella of LKC Holding GmbH, headquartered in Munich.

With a network of more than 30 firms and a strong focus on Bavaria, LKC offers a comprehensive range of services in tax advisory, audit, and legal advisory, as well as specialized M&A and transaction advisory. With around 700 employees and approximately 25,000 clients, the LKC Group ranks among the top 20 leading management consulting firms in Germany according to the Lünendonk list.
Further information: www.lkc.de

About GREENPEAK Partners

GREENPEAK Partners, headquartered in Munich, is an investment firm specializing in building and developing mid-sized corporate groups with a proven track record. The company has extensive experience in founding, developing, and expanding industry leaders.

Through its buy-and-build strategies, GREENPEAK aims to establish market-leading platforms as integrated partnerships for all stakeholders — with clearly aligned, sustainable interests and ambitious ESG principles. To date, the GREENPEAK Partners team has built more than 20 platforms with annual revenues of approximately one billion euros.
Further information: www.greenpeak-partners.com