Mr Lennart Crain > AKD > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Lennart Crain
Work Department
Corporate/M&A
Position
Partner
Career
Lennart Crain is an Amsterdam-based partner in the firm’s Corporate group, focusing on M&A and private equity. He specializes in public and private M&A transactions, including auctions, public bids (tender offers), complex disentanglements and leveraged buyouts. He has ample experience in transactions for financial institutions, in the TMT sector and with private equity.
Before joining AKD Lennart was with De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, where he advised on both domestic and cross-border deals. He regularly works with leading international law firms on multi-jurisdictional mandates.
Education
In New York Lennart obtained an MBA in Finance at Columbia Business School. His financial knowledge allows him to translate financial aspects to the legal negotiations and transaction documents.
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The commercial, corporate and M&A group at AKD has a strong reputation for advising on high-value and cross-border M&A deals and private equity matters. The team reports an increase in instructions from clients in the tech, biotech, chemical and transport sectors. Carlos Pita Cao heads up the practice, and other key practitioners include public M&A specialist Lennart Crain, Nathalie van Woerkom and Wouter Kros, who brings experience in handling joint ventures.
Netherlands > Private equity
The ‘professional and committed’ private equity group at AKD is headed up by ‘amazing lawyer and person’ Nathalie Van Woerkom, who is based at the firm’s Rotterdam office and has particular expertise handling significant transactions in both national and international contexts. The ‘commercial and pragmatic’ Lennart Crain is a practitioner to note, as is Carlos Pita Cao, whose practice spans the array of industry sectors. Wouter Kros has a particular focus on corporate, M&A and joint venture work. Former counsel Rosanne Vlasveld departed to an in-house role in November 2022.
Netherlands > Energy
Regulatory-focused Marjolein Dieperink has particular expertise in renewables contexts, advising on such issues as wind and heat projects and grids, tendering, permits and state aid. Dieperink is at the helm of AKD‘s energy group and is noted for her provision of ‘invaluable’ guidance to clients. Green energy is a prominent focus throughout the team; ‘excellent lawyer and negotiator’ Keesjan Meijering has expertise in sustainable energy, namely in heat and cold, and solar projects. Lennart Crain has experience advising on related corporate and M&A transactions, whilst Julian Versmissen has a specialism in cross-border real estate matters, energy transactions and negotiations involved therein.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: class actions
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights
- Private equity
- Project finance and PFI
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Employment
- Energy
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Tax