Throughout a long and varied two-decades-plus career, Nicholas Assef has always managed to demonstrate a high level of talent and skill. There are many reasons he is considered in the same breath as many of the most dynamic mergers and acquisitions investment bankers in the entire world. Of course, Nick is a successful specialist in the Australian and South East Asian markets, but he also has gained a lot of experience and demonstrated a lot of skill in many business areas and all over the world. and in many business areas, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, valuation, growth strategies, shareholder rights, and strategic due diligence.

When business people who have worked with him describe Nicholas Assef’s negotiation style, they commonly use the word “tenacious” to describe his negotiating skills. This description reflects his tendency to handle deals through the use of more innovative approaches than many others in his position. It is those tendencies that cause many clients to come to him for help. Nick always works to make his clients’ business goals a reality, so he quite often uses unique investment strategies based on "game theory” in negotiations because he feels using these techniques gives him an edge over others in his business. That edge gives his clients the best results.

Long before his current career, which has encompassed more than a quarter-century by now, Nicholas Assef wanted to make sure he had an elite education that would place him among the best in the business. In addition to the enviable post-graduate degree in valuation he received from Harvard Business School, he also did the work necessary to acquire a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the prestigious Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. That apparently wasn’t enough, however, since Nicholas Assef also picked up a Bachelor of Law Honors degree from Bond University Law School and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Technology Sydney.

Nicholas Assef is more than well-educated, of course. He is actually quite experienced, as well. That is why he demonstrates so much talent; he is capable of seeing each and every deal from a wide variety of angles. Nowadays, Nicholas Assef is best-known for the work he does with his own firm, Lincoln Crowne and Company. He not only founded the firm, but he is also its most prominent advisor and negotiator. He is considered a tenacious negotiator, capable of getting the most out of any complex transaction. Prior to establishing Lincoln Crowne, Nicholas Assef was a corporate attorney with Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney, Australia.

More than anything else in his life, Nicholas Assef believes that is incumbent upon him to provide each and every client with the most innovative thinking and the deepest commercial and financial judgment available and that he should also provide clients with clear independent advice. That is why he has poised himself as a shrewd negotiator. It’s also why he has proven himself capable of using strategies and tactics based on “game theory” in the negotiations with which he is involved. Nick Assef’s approach to negotiation on behalf of his clients has frequently been described as “tenacious,” probably because he applies innovative thinking, deep commercial and financial judgment and clear independent advice to the counsel he provides to every client. He uses this type of approach because he is fully aware that those clients who hire him and his firm want something more substantive than the typical advice offered by other firms.

You see, Nicholas Assef is the founder of Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, which has grown over the years into a quite prestigious investment firm. He is also the Executive Director for the firm and serves as a Senior Analyst. Lincoln Crowne in general and Nicholas Assef in particular are specialists in the Australian and South East Asian markets.

Nicholas Assef is someone with a tremendous amount of experience in many important financial and business areas, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, valuation, growth strategies, shareholder rights, and strategic due diligence. However, Nick also has a wide range of work experience, as well as academic excellence. Because Nicholas Assef considers education to be a foundation for everything, he earned a Post Graduate degree in Valuation with honors from Harvard Business School and completed a MBA program at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School.