From the very beginning, their different professional orientations were to be bundled into a range of legal, tax and auditing services from a single source. However, in 1979, the year the company was founded, this bundling consisted of only one telephone, the cord of which had to be long enough for the then part-time secretary to pass the receiver from one desk to another as silently as possible.
From their living room, as it were, Peters & Schönberger offered their legal and tax advice on topics such as choice of legal form, double taxation, corporate succession, business splitting, builder-owner models and other issues with minimal technical equipment. However, this privateissimo soon stood in the way of ambitions to present a more professional image.