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I am a rigorous advocate for my clients with a hands-on, communicative approach, focused on delivering intense advocacy and outlier results.
Sean Bennis
Managing Director & Co-head of Industrials
Chicago
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
I enjoy leading clients and realizing their objectives, while structuring solutions to issues that are both intriguing and challenging.
Øyvind Bjordal
Managing Director | Head of Switzerland
Zurich
Savanna Yourtee
Savanna provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to clients in the consumer industry, with a focus on food and beverage. She has extensive experience advising on domestic and cross-border… Read More

Eric Benjamin
Eric provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to industrial companies, including providers of niche manufactured products, engineered components, specialty vehicles and industrial technology solutions. Eric has experience executing buy-side… Read More

Riding the Sound Waves – Key Trends in the Audio Industry
The audio equipment industry, a sub-sector of the $263 billion global professional audio/visual (AV) market, is a large, diversified and resilient sector that is projected to grow significantly over coming… Read More

Cybersecurity: Zeroing in on Current and Future Trends
As we enter the second half of the year, the state of cybersecurity is coming into sharper focus following a tumultuous 2022. Here are Lincoln International’s key observations and predictions.… Read More

DVZ | Logistics and Transport M&A is on the Up
Originally published by DVZ on June 20, 2023. View the original article (German). Read the article translated to English below: Against the backdrop of macroeconomic headwinds and the rapid normalization… Read More

Investor Appetite for Frozen Food Grows
In the U.S. and in Europe the frozen food market continues to grow. The overall mega themes of products that are high-quality, clean, convenient, fresh, long-lasting, less wasteful and flavorful… Read More

Charles Xia
Charles provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to clients across various industries, including consumer, healthcare and industrials. He has extensive experience working alongside public companies as well as private… Read More

Lincoln International adds Kensuke Nakatsuka as Managing Director
Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Kensuke Nakatsuka has joined as a Managing Director in the firm’s Tokyo office. Kensuke has over 20… Read More

Kensuke Nakatsuka
Kensuke serves as deputy head of the firm’s Tokyo office and provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to private equity and corporate clients in Japan. He has expertise in… Read More

Education Technology & Services Market Update: Q1 2023
As it has for more than 10 years (COVID-19 aside), April once again was home to the education mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors and… Read More

Stefano Reghellin
Stefano provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to founder-led, publicly listed and private equity-backed companies. He is responsible for the structuring and execution of buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions,… Read More

Cybersecurity Report: Q1 2023
Consecutive quarterly sector mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal activity rose slightly in Q1 2023 to 44 reported cybersecurity transactions, from 41 in Q4 2022. However, year-over-year Q1 declined from 68… Read More

Real Deals | Healthcare M&A Resilience
What trends have you seen in the last quarter in relation to valuations in the healthcare space? Matthew Lee: It’s early days to get an accurate read on valuations as… Read More

Mergermarket | Dealspeak EMEA – Slice of Pie: New Entrants Gobble Up GP Stakes in Europe
Originally posted by Mergermarket on April 24, 2023. Historically, North American investors were the main players that acquire stakes in private equity (PE), credit and infrastructure general partners (GPs) in… Read More

PETS International | Investment Spike in the Fresh Dog Food Category
Originally posted by PETS International on April 26, 2023. The natural / minimally processed pet food industry is attracting great investor interest, and the market is growing at a rapid… Read More
Lincoln International Announces Strategic Partnership with Australian Corporate Advisory Firm, Miles Advisory Partners
Lincoln International, a global investment banking advisory firm, announced today that it has established a strategic partnership with Miles Advisory Partners, an Australian-based independent corporate advisory firm, servicing the robust… Read More

Packaging Quarterly Review Q1 2023
We expect interested parties who are willing to align expectations to current market conditions will continue to transact across the sector heading into the next quarter.

Charles Plassart
Charles provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to corporations and financial institutions. Charles has advised clients across a variety of sectors, with a deep understanding of the industrials and… Read More

Innovation and Advancements in Packaging Technology
Advancements in packaging across both active and passive technologies continue to revolutionize the industry as new features, functionality and capabilities broadly become more available. Packaging companies have an increased emphasis… Read More

The Eventual Normalization of the Housing Market will Create a Busy Period for Building Products M&A
In late 2022, building products companies were assessing the impact of the flash freeze in the new residential construction market caused by mortgage interest rates more than doubling. However, as… Read More

Webinar | CISO Cybersecurity Priorities and Practices
On March 23rd, 2023, Managing Directors Don More and Chris Brooks, from our TMT M&A Group hosted a discussion with top Chief Information Security Officers on their strategies for combating… Read More

Beauty Outlook: Optimism for an Attractive 2023
Many investors are eyeing the year ahead for the beauty and personal care industry as it is ripe for accelerated growth due to several factors. 2022 had a key focus… Read More
Home Health and Hospice is an Evolving M&A Environment
Lincoln International participated in Farragut Square Group’s Home Health, Hospice and Personal Care webinar on February 28, 2023. During the webinar, alongside a group of fellow industry experts, we shared… Read More

Aleksey Zverkov
Aleksey provides mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services to private equity-backed and founder-led companies in Lincoln’s Technology Group. Aleksey has more than a decade of M&A advisory experience with domestic… Read More

Aerospace and Defense: Factors Powering M&A Activity
Lincoln International was pleased to speak on the Reshaping the Supply Chain Landscape: M&A Trends panel at Aviation Week Network’s A&D Supply Chain conference. During the panel, industry experts revealed… Read More