Manuel Jimenez

Manuel Jimenez has been an entrepreneur since 2005. He does not come from academia or a large consulting firm — he comes from the client’s side of the table. Over more than two decades he has founded, managed, and served on the boards of over 100 companies across Spain and the DACH region, and has led the restructuring of more than 50 businesses facing challenges ranging from uncontrolled growth to imminent insolvency.

That hands-on experience as a business owner is what led him to found BMC in 2010. After years of dealing with large firms that were not built for companies his size, and traditional advisors that lacked the technical depth his operations demanded, the conclusion was simple: build what did not exist.

The founding thesis of BMC was born from that frustration: that SMEs and mid-market companies deserve the same standard of strategic, tax, and legal advisory that large corporations receive — but delivered through a model adapted to their reality. No inflated structures, no rotating junior teams every quarter, and a senior point of contact who knows the client’s business because they have been sitting at the same table since day one.

What Manuel learned, he did not learn in a classroom. He learned it by running his own companies — with all the tax, employment, and regulatory complexity that entails. That is the difference: the best consulting comes from having been on the client’s side, not from having studied it as a case exercise.

Today he leads a team of 30 professionals across five Spanish offices and remains directly involved in the firm’s most significant mandates: M&A transactions, restructurings, due diligence, and business valuations. He has participated in over 200 transactions throughout his career, many of them between German and Spanish companies — a corridor where his command of all three languages and his knowledge of both regulatory frameworks make him a natural counterpart.

He is a member of the German Chamber of Commerce for Spain (AHK), speaks at investment and business expansion forums, and has published on the valuation of family businesses and market entry strategies for the Iberian Peninsula. But if you ask him what defines his work, the answer will not be a title or a credential — it will be that he built BMC because he knew exactly what an entrepreneur needs from an advisor, because he needed it first himself.