BREHMER & CIE.

BREHMER & CIE.

Founder Thomas Brehmer launched the firm in 2009, anchoring it in Frankfurt am Main as an owner-operated multi-family office with an explicit bank-independent mandate. The firm targets entrepreneur families navigating multi-generational wealth transfer, taking on a centralized coordination role across banks, tax advisors, property managers, and legal counsel. Unlike most peers, Brehmer & Cie. holds a license under § 15 WpIG, making it one of roughly 450 supervised securities institutions in Germany versus an estimated 10,000 unlicensed family offices. The investment model rests on an open-architecture Multi-Manager Strategy that allocates liquid mandates to up to 20 independent, best-of-class asset managers — each retaining full discretion over single-stock selection, sector weightings, and country allocation. For direct exposure, the firm executes co-investments and SPV-level private equity buyouts with a known geographic focus on Europe and a sector tilt toward healthcare services and biotech. The website confirms explicit exclusion of closed-end funds and commission-based products, and the firm maintains direct real estate holdings, including mixed-use assets in Frankfurt, plus gold exposure as a portfolio stabilizer. Brehmer & Cie. sets a €60 million total-asset threshold for full family-office engagement; liquid discretionary mandates start at €3 million, with special mandates — covering enhanced reporting, structuring, and multi-advisor coordination — available from €15 million. The leadership team includes Senior Partner Dr. Conrad V. Sydow and Partners Elmar J. Bohr and Klaus Deng, the latter joining the partnership in 2017. Albert Höflich leads portfolio management, while Thomas Brehmer himself is named across Handelsblatt, Elite Report, and Bavarian state-level award programs. Staff members have earned Sustainable Finance Expert certification through the European Business School. The structural differentiator is the dual regulatory and advisory identity: a family office that is simultaneously a BaFin- and Bundesbank-supervised securities firm. This configuration imposes a compliance cost but provides client families a legal clarity that the vast majority of German multi-family offices lack — a posture that trades accessibility for regulatory defensibility and fits families who prize oversight, transparency, and multi-generational governance over speed.