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Lennart Crain

AKD

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Practice Areas:
Private equity
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
Dutch
English
Biography

Lennart Crain is an Amsterdam-based Corporate partner focusing on M&A and Private Equity.

Lennart specializes in private and public M&A, including controlled auctions, public bids, complex disentanglements and leveraged buyouts. He is a seasoned dealmaker in cross-border transactions for corporates, financial institutions and PE alike, and across several industries.

Recent transactional highlights
  • The founding Tadolini family and management in the buyout of industrial firm Megadyne by private equity firm Partners Group and roll-over into a combination with Ammeraal Beltech at a combined value of €2bn
  • A Dutch PE firm’s acquisition of a 5-star hotel
  • One of Sweden’s largest conglomerates on multiple acquisitions in the industrial space
  • A PE firm’s exit from a financial intermediary
  • Kuala Lumpur-listed IOI Corp.’s sale of a 70% stake in Loders Croklaan to Bunge (NYSE: BG) for an implied enterprise value of $1.4bn
Practice areas
  • M&A
  • Private equity
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Financial services
  • Insurance
  • Media
  • Tech and telecoms
Bar admissions
  • Netherlands
Association memberships
  • International Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • MBA, Columbia Business School (2010)
  • LL.M., Maastricht University (2004)
Address:
Amsterdam
Tel:+31 88 253 5237 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.akd.nl/en/specialists/lennart-crain