Förster Und Franke

Förster Und Franke

Förster Und Franke was formed by Peter Förster and Sven Franke, two former directors at a major German universal bank, likely Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), where Franke focused on financing for private equity and family offices. Since its 2019 launch, the firm has operated from a single office in Nuremberg, serving a concentrated group of entrepreneur families with bespoke asset-allocation and governance services. The founding partnership was cut short by the death of Peter Förster, leaving Sven Franke as the sole managing director of the operating entity, Förster Verwaltungs GmbH. The firm structures capital deployment around direct, project-level investments rather than traditional fund investing. Asset-class exposure concentrates heavily on private equity and real estate, with a stated emphasis on European opportunities. The investment approach is highly customized: each transaction carries its own financing strategy, and the firm integrates ESG principles into its decision-making. Beyond capital allocation, Förster Und Franke manages holding companies for clients and provides succession planning, leaning on Franke’s deep corporate-finance network. Adjacent shared vehicles include Portus Capital GmbH and Wendelstein Capital GmbH, each co-directed by Franke alongside external business partners R. Frei-Wendlandt and Uwe Seiler, signaling a web of deal-specific co-investment structures. The firm operates with a deliberately lean footprint, with Sven Franke as the sole named managing director. No headcount is disclosed, consistent with the high-touch, project-driven model. Franke also serves as volunteer Finance Director of TSV 1846 Nürnberg, a major German sports club — a role that surfaces a local anchoring and mission-aligned governance posture outside the financial sector. The office has maintained the same Nuremberg address since formation and carries a simple legal structure: a GmbH & Co. KG with Förster Verwaltungs GmbH as the general partner. Förster Und Franke's structural distinction lies in its rejection of institutional aggregation. The firm does not market funds, does not report AUM, and operates through deal-by-deal vehicles and managed holding companies rather than commingled capital pools. This architecture aligns every investment directly with a single family's balance sheet, creating a governance model built around project-specific independence and succession continuity, free from fund-duration pressures.