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Meet Our Senior Team in Business Services
I am enthusiastic about creating sustainable growth and the highest value for our clients and strive to leave a positive footprint beyond any successful M&A transaction.
Friedrich Bieselt
Managing Director & Head of Business Services, Europe
Frankfurt
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Lincoln International and The Chertoff Group Announce Relationship Focused on Government Advisory Services
Creates full complement of risk management & security services for clients Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm and The Chertoff Group, a leader in security risk consulting, federal… Read More
Ryan Hoffman
A career investment banker in the government contracting industry, Ryan provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services to private equity and corporate clients, with a focus on AI/ML, cybersecurity, software and systems engineering, space and geospatial technology… Read More
Jason Kaufman
Jason provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services to corporations and private equity firms, with a focus on AI/ML, cybersecurity, software and systems engineering, space and geospatial technology services, intelligence analysis and… Read More
A “Pan-Premium” Ignites Consolidation in European Fire Safety
Featured in International Fire & Safety Journal on 7 October 2024. Europe’s lukewarm fire safety sector is set to see a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as players that… Read More
Juan Carlos Montoya
Juan Carlos provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services to corporate and private equity clients across Europe, North America and Asia, with a focus on energy transition. Backed by 15+ years… Read More
Lincoln International adds Juan Carlos Montoya as Managing Director
Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Juan Carlos Montoya has joined as a Managing Director in the firm’s Industrials Group in Frankfurt. Juan Carlos will… Read More
LA Times | Insights on the Business of Beauty, Fashion and Consumer Goods
Originally posted by the LA Times on September 23, 2024. Ashleigh Barker, Director in Lincoln’s Consumer Group, is optimistic about the outlook for the beauty industry. “While broader consumer discretionary… Read More
North American M&A Set to Accelerate
The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market is primed for an acceleration. Positive macroeconomic trends, including a projected 200 bps cut in the Fed Funds Rate over the next 12 months,… Read More
Real Deals | Roundtable: Green Shoots for the UK Mid-market
Originally posted by Real Deals on September 18, 2024. The UK and wider market are filled with cautious optimism as macroeconomic challenges cool, providing hope that higher levels of transaction… Read More
Lincoln International Leader Recognized as Beauty and Fashion Visionary
Lincoln International is pleased to announce that Ashleigh Barker, Director in the firm’s U.S. Consumer Group, was selected as a Beauty and Fashion Visionary by the LA Times. “At Lincoln… Read More
Financial News | Lincoln International Eyes Acquisitions in “Aggressive” Expansion, Senior Hiring Spree
Originally published by Financial News on September 8, 2024. Lincoln International leaders Rob Brown, Matthew Lee and Eric Wijs recently shared with Financial News how the firm is hiring experienced… Read More
Continuing momentum in the European TMT sector
Lincoln International’s European Technology Group has announced 21 transactions thus far in 2024. We have seen robust deal activity across all our key Technology subsectors – Business-to-Business (B2B) Software, IT… Read More
Lincoln International adds Brian Little as Managing Director
Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Brian Little has joined as a Managing Director in the firm’s Consumer Group in Los Angeles. Brian will provide… Read More
Middle Market Dealmaker | Moving Through the Market: 2024 M&A Trends
As H2 2024 ended, M&A market dynamics showed increasing deal volumes despite the growing difficulty in finding quality assets. As a result, the higher-quality deals are over-subscribed, in terms of… Read More
Nils Klemke
Nils provides mergers and acquisitions advisory services to national and international corporate and private equity clients in the healthcare industry, with a focus on provider, pharma and lab services as… Read More
Lincoln International Recognized in 15th Annual International M&A Awards
Lincoln International is pleased to announce that it has been recognized in The M&A Advisor’s 15th Annual International M&A Awards. The firm was honored in the Cross-Border Deal of the… Read More
Brian Little
Brian provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to private equity firms, entrepreneurs and public and private companies in the consumer industry, with a focus on apparel, fashion and accessories.… Read More
Beauty Independent | Will Beauty’s Recent String of Strong Sales Doom the Lipstick Index?
Originally posted by Beauty Independent on August 19, 2024. In 2020, Circana (formerly The NPD Group) estimated prestige beauty sales fell by 19%. Since then, sales have risen each year,… Read More
Lincoln International adds Alex Johnston as Managing Director
Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm, is pleased to announce that it has hired Alex Johnston as a Managing Director to help lead the firm’s IT services efforts… Read More
Smart Packaging: How AI is Changing the Game
Over the last several years, the packaging industry has undergone significant transformations driven by rapid advancements in technology. From the introduction of innovative materials and sustainable practices to automation and… Read More
Ian McGraw
Ian provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to private equity firms and their portfolio companies in the technology industry, with a focus on software. Leveraging his industry expertise, Ian… Read More
Alex Johnston
Alex provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to private equity firms and corporations in the information technology services industry, with broad expertise in data, artificial intelligence (AI), software development,… Read More
Exponential Data Center Growth Fuels Unprecedented Buyer Interest and Investment Opportunities
The creation, adoption and use of data-intensive technology has accelerated in recent years, driving explosive growth in the data center market. Ongoing advancements in 5G, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence… Read More
Global Accountancy Services: Rapid Consolidation Continues, but What’s Next for the Sector?
Originally published in The Accountant on July 25, 2024. The last few years have seen unprecedented levels of private equity (PE) activity in the global accounting services sector, driven by… Read More
Mergermarket | UK Dealmakers Stress Pre-Auctions Prep
Originally posted by Mergermarket on July 31, 2024. In the UK market, advisors are intensifying pre-auction preparations amid lower transaction volumes. Alex Masters, Managing Director and co-head of Lincoln’s European… Read More