ITALY
Marina Alberti, STUDIO ALBERTI

Marina Alberti is managing director of Studio Alberti, a auditing and tax advisory firm in Bolzano. Marina advises Italian and international clients on taxation, legal and financial issue including corporate and project financing as well as Mergers&Acquisitions. She has long-standing experience in supporting non-Italian companies in establishing a presence or expanding into Italy.

Marina holds a Degree in Business Administration (Dott.) from Libera Università agli Studi, Verona. Her working languages are German, Italian and English.  

SPAIN
Aitor Arteaga, BAUM PARTNERS

Aitor Arteaga is a Corporate Lawyer, with a Degree in Laws by the UPV and Master in Legal and Tax Advisory. He is one of the founding members of BAUM partners, an independent legal and corporate advisory firm, specialized in supporting small and middle size industrial companies in their legal and financial affairs. Aitor has developed his career in legal firms, conducting projects for family-owned companies, restructuring of family assets and succession planning. He has participated as speaker and accredited financial consultant for public institutions in the Basque Country.

In BAUM, he provides expertise in M&A projects, as well as in debt restructuring and industrial establishments abroad. Aitor is also highly specialized in private and public capital raising, and financial optimization. He is Legal Counsel and Member of the Board in several industrial companies.

FINLAND
Juuso Aulanko, 3J Partners Oy

Juuso Aulanko is co-founder and managing partner of 3J Partners. 

3J Partners is an independent mid-market M&A boutique based in Finland, where 3J Partners offers buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory. 3J Partners’ offices are in three cities Helsinki, Hämeenlinna and Jyväskylä. 

Juuso founded the 3J Partners together with Jaakko Niskanen in 2008. They have been doing corporate finance business since then and led over 100 M&A projects. Juuso holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Jyväskylä. 

UNITED KINGDOM
William Aylward, Rockworth Management Partners Ltd

William Aylward is responsible for managing transactions within a range of sectors including industrial manufacturing, leisure, marketing, publishing and business services. Recent deals include the sale of welding, cutting and fume-extraction equipment Weldability Sif to Indutrade AB, the sale of laser cutting and engraving machinery manufacturer Cadcam Technology to Summa BV, the sale of hotel and spa facilities provider Clarice Leisure to Bannatyne Fitness, the sale of digital marketing business Pinnacle Marketing to Next Fifteen PLC, and the sale of industrial fastenings wholesaler Young Black to Indutrade. Mr. Aylward also led the market-mapping consultation for the French specialist engineering company Segula Technologies to help them explore options for their UK M&A strategy in the automotive sector. Prior to Rockworth, Mr. Aylard worked for Alchemy Partners, the London based Private Equity fund.

BASc (Engineering Physics/Applied Physics), University of Bath

MEng (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Imperial College, London

THE NETHERLANDS
Drs. Bas Brusche,  FACTOR & ROS

Bas Brusche is co-founder and managing partner of FACTOR & ROS.
FACTOR & ROS is an independent Corporate Finance advisor existing over 25 years, focused on Mergers & Acquisitions and restructuring advisory. The M&A department has a wide range of experience in both buy side and sell side advisory.

The restructuring department has a wide range of experience in the field of business restructuring, financial restructuring and business performance improvement.

The strength of FACTOR & ROS lies in the fact that we are a partner in the process to an M&A process but also in situations where the business has restructuring needs in periods of windfalls. We are dedicated to manage either M&A or restructuring processes in a proactive way.

Prior to founding Factor Corporate Finance in 2012, Bas  Brusche started his M&A advisory career in 2004 at a Dutch M&A boutique. Bas holds a master degree in business administration from the Erasmus University / Rotterdam School of Management.

SPAIN
Joan Cerdá, JOAN CERDÁ TAX CONSULTANCY

Joan Cerdà is a lawyer, economist, graduate in Business Administration and Management and Professor of Economics. He is also the founder of Joan Cerdà Tax Consultancy, which was established in 1970. 

The history of the firm dates back to the end of the 1960s, when its founder, Joan Cerdà, graduated in commerce and set up his first company with two classmates. At that time, very few companies knew how important it was to keep their accounts or to have someone else do it for them, and the company played a very important role in this respect. 

After 50 years at the helm, Joan Cerdà decided to strengthen the company before handing over to his team, in whom he has 100% confidence. A new and significant growth has taken place, both in terms of the firm's activity and its team, thanks to commercial technology, the expansion of the business and a new approach to development and consolidation at a different level.

Today we are in a globalised scenario, where distance and nationality do not prevent us from travelling and doing business in different countries. For this reason, Joan Cerda's team has developed a specialised consultancy service for foreign clients who wish to invest in the Balearic Islands as well as the rest of Spain.

Joan Cerdá Tax Consultancy expertise is in: tax planning, corporate arrangements, transfer pricing, tax and accounting obligations, due diligence and advice.

BELGIUM
Thierry Dehout, CLOSING

Thierry Dehout has been active for more than 20 years in the field of business transfers, first within the network of Belgian, French and Luxembourg Chambers of Commerce, then as a partner in a business sale & acquisition firm. With this background and a good network developed during his career, Thierry has successfully carried out numerous business transfer operations within Closing since 2012. Thierry is a certified consultant by the Walloon Region.

PORTUGAL
Susana Enes, ENES | CABRAL

Susana Enes is a founding partner of Enes | Cabral, responsible for the M&A and Corporate Law practice areas. Susana started her professional life as a tax consultant in a Big Four consultancy firm, but soon decided to engage in her law practice, having worked in both national and international law firms in Portugal, where she gained a relevant experience in advising clients in M&A projects, mostly small to mid-size companies. 

Susana completed an LLM in International Business and Trade Law and has post-graduate qualifications in Securities Law, as well as M&A and Corporate Litigation, being Recognized by Best Lawyers in Corporate Law since 2019 and in the Leaders League rankings for Portugal in the Corporate / M&A area. 

BELGIUM
Kurt Faes, CoTra

Kurt Faes is a Belgian corporate lawyer specialized in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and all fields of transactions (e.g. (private equity) investments, joint ventures, partnerships, restructurings, etc). Kurt is one of the founding partners of CoTra, an independent and dynamic boutique law firm specialized in transactions and corporate law.

BELGIUM
David Franeau, CLOSING

David Franeau is Partner at Closing since 2015, David was previously Director of the M&A department of a Big-4 company in Luxembourg, Director of a Luxembourgish Private Equity fund and General Manager of a Belgian industrial group in the food manufacturing industry (turnover of €50 million, 250 people). Since 2013, David also assists a Belgian family of industrials in the management of their investments as an independent non-executive director in their investment vehicles in Europe.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
Andrew Heitner, ALCON PARTNERS

Andrew Heitner is founder and director of Alcon Partners, a buy-side advisory firm that assists Private Equity firms and corporate M&A departments source and evaluate acquisition opportunities, with offices in Miami, Boston, and Vermont. He also owns Alcon Technology Consulting Inc., a telecommunications firm based in Boston.
 
Mr. Heitner was previously co-founder of New Frontiers Information Corporation (NFIC), a Cambridge MA software company that sells enterprise-level digital content management systems. NFIC was subsequently acquired by the Banta Corporation (now RR Donnelley NYSE:RRD) and he served for several years following the acquisition as Director of Banta Integrated Media.
 
Mr. Heitner serves on the executive board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida, the Investment Committee for Miami Children’s Hospital board of directors, and on the Executive Council of MPE Partners private equity firm. He has been a lecturer at the University of Miami School of Business in Entrepreneurship, and serves as a judge for the Leigh M. Rothschild Business Plan Competition.

He is involved in a number entrepreneurial ventures, including angel investments in 4 start-up companies. He holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

AUSTRIA
Dr. Michael Hirt, HIRT&FRIENDS GmbH

Dr. Michael Hirt is a leading expert and independent consultant on Corporate Finance and Corporate Development topics. He is President & CEO of HIRT&FRIENDS, an independent management consultancy and Director of the Austrian Institute for Management Innovation. He has published widely on Management and Corporate Finance Topics and has served as a visiting faculty member of major universities. Prior to his career as an independent consultant, speaker and management author, he worked as an investment banker with HSBC Investment Bank, as a Corporate Finance Expert with the Austrian Privatization Agency/State Holding Company ÖIAG and as a strategy and management consultant with BCG.

Michael received both his MBA from INSEAD and his Doctorate in Law from Vienna University with Distinction and holds an LL.M. from McGill University, Montreal/Canada. He is a CMC - Certified Management Consultant, award with Distinction. The CMC represents evidence of the highest standards of consulting and adherence to the ethical canons of the profession. Less than 1% of all consultants have achieved this globally recognized level of performance.

GERMANY
Dr. Sonja Legtmann, EXG Consulting GmbH

Dr. Sonja Legtmann is managing director and founder of EXG Consulting GmbH, an independent corporate finance advisory firm for the mid-market with a special focus on technology companies. At EXG Dr. Sonja Legtmann mainly works on M&A advisory projects in the ICT and services industries.

Before starting her own corporate finance advisory activities Dr. Sonja Legtmann was partner of an international venture capital and corporate finance group and member of the board of several portfolio and group companies.

She started her career working for private and investment banks in Vienna, London and Munich advising on numerous financing, M&A, IPO and privatization projects.

Dr. Sonja Legtmann holds a master degree in business administration and a doctorate in economic sciences. Her working languages are German, English, French and Spanish.

POLAND
Dr. Bartosz Marcinkowski, Domański Zakrzewski Palinka sp. k.

Dr. Bartosz Marcinkowski specialises in company law and M&A. He is an adviser to numerous leading Polish and foreign companies on legal aspects of their operations and on the restructuring of capital groups. He is also an adviser on foreign investments in Poland including greenfield investments and an adviser on Polish investments abroad. Dr. Bartosz Marcinkowski has authored publications and lectured at many conferences and seminars about doing business in Poland. He is a member of the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw and member of the International Bar Association. Dr. Marcinkowski was ranked as Global Leader in the Who’s Who Legal M&A 2019 guide.

DENMARK
Søren Milner, MilnerFinance 

Søren Milner is founder of MilnerFinance. Søren has more than 30 years’ experience as corporate finance advisor working for Nordic investment banks, independent consultancies and Big4 advisory firms. Søren has strong deal experience through more than 80 successful closings (EV EUR 10mill – 1.0bn) executed on five continents globally advising Danish/Nordic corporates and owner-managed businesses acquiring or exiting non-core business units as well as international companies entering the Nordic area.

Søren has a broad sector experience, and he has been engaged by clients in M&A, debt finance, financial risk management, exit planning and strategic change processes. Søren has an extensive network with industry, private equity and the financial sector in Denmark, and Søren is respected by clients, colleagues and staff for a high level of personal integrity, professional skills in all aspects of transactions and his leadership competencies.

Søren holds a M.SC. (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and an MBA from IMD, Switzerland. 

UNITED KINGDOM
Lawrence Price, Rockworth Management Partners Ltd

Lawrence Price has over 18 years lead advisory corporate finance experience working with privately owned companies. His work includes sales, acquisitions, MBO/MBI and fund-raising, with completed transactions ranging from £1m to £100m in value. With experience of over 100 transactions, Lawrence Price was lead advisor on the sale of Morgan Motor Company Limited to Investindustrial, Rubicon Drinks to AG Barr, Kittiwake Developments to Parker Hannifin Inc and Core Design to Omnicom Inc. At Rockworth, Mr. Price has launched Value-Vault, an online resource tool designed to help businesses highlight areas for potential growth, improve commercial management, and to prepare for a successful change of ownership.  Prior to founding Rockworth Management Partners, Mr. Price headed up the Thames Valley office of a London-based corporate finance firm, worked in TMT corporate finance with Longacre Partners, now part of Jefferies, and was Operations Business Manager for the British American Racing Formula One team.  He sits on the financial services panel of Said Business School Oxford, and is non-executive director to two private businesses. 

MBA (Finance & Entrepreneurship), Imperial College Business School, London

Advanced Corporate Finance, London Business School

MEng (Aeronautical Engineering), Imperial College, London

BRAZIL
Daniel Rivera, ELIT CAPITAL

Founding Partner of Elit Capital, Economist, with a Master in Business Administration by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a second Master in Business Administration by Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). Mr. Rivera has extensive experience in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) processes through working in world-renowned companies such as Petrobras and Ernst & Young.

Mr. Rivera participated in major M&A Transactions in Brazil and has experience in international processes in Europe, Saudi Arabia, Central and South America, involving clients in many countries around the world.

BELGIUM
Davy Smet, CoTra

Davy Smet is a corporate lawyer specialized in all fields of corporate law and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (share and asset deals), venture capital, joint ventures, partnerships and restructurings for multinational groups and large/medium-sized local companies. Davy is one of the founding partners of CoTra, an independent and dynamic boutique law firm specialized in transactions and corporate law.

SWITZERLAND
Amine Tazi, VALUE BRIDGE PARTNERS

Amine Tazi is the founder and managing partner of Value Bridge Partners. With an experience of over 25+ years in corporate, management consulting and investment, Amine Tazi had lead several transactions in different sectors from TMT, ICT, Digital, Energy, Real-Estate, Industrial and Financial services. He supports both strategic investors, private equity and entrepreneurs in their sell-side and buy-side transactions but also restructuring their portfolio and optimising their value creation. Amine Tazi holds an MBA from London Business School and MSc in Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

BELGIUM
Rémy Templier, CLOSING

Rémy Templier joined Closing in 2015 and became Partner in 2021. Over the last years at Closing, Rémy has conducted and actively contributed to the success of numerous transactions, fundraising, valuations, financial and strategic studies in multiple sectors. Rémy is a certified consultant by the Walloon Region. 

FRANCE
Henri-Jacques van Tichelen, AURIS Finance

Henri-Jacques has devoted most of his career to the sectors of ‘services to industry’ (including construction engineering, industrial process engineering, automated material handling, ….) and contractors (integrators / turnkey contractors). Henri-Jacques has managed major players in these sectors in France, UK, the Netherlands and Belgium and has carried out numerous acquisitions, disposals and restructuring operations. He has a MSc / MBA and joined AURIS Finance to develop their activities in France and Europe. 

UKRAINE                                                                          Olena Velyka, Adamant Capital LLC

Olena Velyka, Founder & CEO.  Elena has over 10 years of experience in the fields of Corporate Finance, Investment Projects and Business Development Strategies. She acquired extensive experience while working at Sumitomo Corporation. She was later appointed Supervisor at Universal Investment Group, where she oversaw the sale of Bank Universalny to EFG EuroBank Swiss-Greek Group. Elena was also Deputy Chairman of Strategic and Investment Policy at Universalna insurance company. She organized the first private placement of shares in the Ukrainian insurance market. Elena received her Master’s degree in International Relations and Economics at the University of Kanazava, Japan, and also holds a Master’s degree in International Law from Kyiv State University of International Relations. 

POLAND                                                                          José Luis Villacampa Varea, Domański Zakrzewski Palinka sp. k.

José Luis Villacampa Varea has worked at DZP for over ten years, mainly advising clients in the construction and energy sectors on operations in Poland. He actively participates in advising Spanish-speaking clients seeking to invest in Poland and Polish businesses looking to expand into Iberian and South American markets. He also heads the team advising Italian clients. For many years he has played an active part in various events promoting foreign investment in Poland. In Spain, he advised on corporate law and civil procedural law. José Luis Villacampa Varea is Member of the Council of the Polish-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Management Board of the Polish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce, Member of the European Lawyers’ Association (ELA), the Chamber of Advocates in Saragossa and the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw.