Nicholas Assef is best known in business circles as the founder of Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, which is considered to be among the best investment firms in the world. He still works in his firm, serving as their Executive Director as well as a Senior Analyst. Both he and the firm are specialists in the Australian and Southeast Asian markets. Also, both can claim a lot of experience and expertise in many areas, including mergers and acquisitions.

Over the course of a long investment career, Nicholas Assef is a demonstrated expert. He is considered to be one of the most dynamic and persuasive mergers and acquisitions investment bankers anywhere and he is considered a phenomenally shrewd negotiator. One reason for that may be due to his tendency to use different kinds of tactics and strategies in his work. Among his favorites are those built "game theory." He is innovative for a very practical reason; clients don't hire a firm like his just for “basic services.” All of his clients are there because they envision a specific result and he believes that getting to that point is the key to client service.

Nicholas Assef's business philosophy is at the heart of Lincoln Crowne's core principles; they provide clients not only with deal making expertise, but also innovative thinking, strong financial judgment and clear independent advice. He can handle a lot more than M&A transactions, as well. He can also advise clients with regard to valuation, growth strategies, shareholder rights, and strategic due diligence. Over the course of more than 25 years, Nicholas Assef has compiled an extensive body of experience in the corporate world, the legal profession and even in the academic world.

Nicholas Assef certainly has plenty of education under his belt. Besides earning a highly coveted Post Graduate degree in Valuation from Harvard Business School, he followed that up by completing an MBA at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. In addition to an enviable business education, he also has gained a lot of wide-ranging experience over 25 years, as well. His education wasn’t just in business. He also holds a Bachelor of Law Honors degree from Bond University Law School and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Technology Sydney.

Before he founded Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, a very prominent investment firm, Nick Assef was a corporate attorney with Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney. Now, he serves as Lincoln Crowne’s Executive Director and Senior Analyst. He has become a specialist in the Australian and South East Asian markets, with enormous levels of expertise in areas like mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, valuation, growth strategies, shareholder rights, and strategic due diligence. Nick Assef’s clients hire him to provide a desired outcome and his tenacity usually brings them exactly what they hope for. He’s a fine partner to have on your investment journey.

Over a long and varied career that covers a quarter century, Nicholas Assef has proven himself to be one of the most dynamic and persuasive mergers and acquisitions investment bankers to cover the Australian and South East Asian markets. The founder of Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, Nick’s approach to investment advice is based on his vast experience in a number of financial disciplines, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and more.

Nicholas Assef’s negotiating style has been described as tenacious. He strives to use innovative thinking to assist his clients to make their dreams come true. One innovation comes with his use of investment strategies based on "game theory." By employing such techniques, he feels that he is better able to provide the best advice and counsel to his clients.

The basis for his expertise comes with his extensive education. He studied at Harvard Business School, the University of Rochester, Bond University Law School and the University of Technology Sydney. All of that education provided the foundation he uses now, as an exceptional negotiator.

A company’s core principles are often a true reflection of their founder’s intentions with the company itself. Lincoln Crowne & Company was founded by Nicholas Assef and he established their core principles as being based on the understanding that its purpose as a firm is to deliver deal making expertise, innovative thinking, deep commercial & financial judgment and clear independent advice. Nicholas Assef believes in transparency in business and brings that belief into the work they do at Lincoln Crowne & Company. If you are looking for a mergers and acquisitions firm that does business worldwide and that you can trust, Lincoln Crowne & Company is ready to provide you with innovative and sharp financial advisement and review.

Embedded in Lincoln Crowne and Company’s core principles is the notion that the clients who hire them wasn’t a lot more from them than other, more ordinary investment advisory firms. They want a lot more than deal-making expertise; they expect and they get the best and most thoughtful commercial and financial judgment and clear independent advice. The basics is not what has made Lincoln Crowne and Company Pty. Limited one of the best in the business.

On their website and in their marketing materials, Lincoln Crowne and Company promises to provide every client with “Business solutions with a focus on maximising shareholder value.” This likely what has transformed Lincoln Crowne into one of the most highly regarded investment firms in the world, especially when it comes to the Australian and South East Asian markets. Everyone who serves clients at Lincoln Crowne and Company are specialists in many different business areas and they can do anything.

A tenacious negotiator, Nicholas Assef likes to apply proven strategies and tactics based on "game theory.” He does this because he believes it gives both him and his clients an edge. Nicholas has gathered a lot of experience over his more than two decades in the corporate world, the legal profession and even in the academic world. After all, clients don't hire a firm like Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited for basic services they can get from most run-of-the-mill advisors and firms.

It is Nick Assef’s range of experience that has turned him and his firm, Lincoln Crowne into one of the most innovative and persuasive mergers and acquisitions investment firms anywhere. He feels that it his mission to provide clients with something more than most investment firms. It is his rare combination of innovative thinking and deep commercial & financial judgment that allows him to give clients the best possible clear independent advice.

Nicholas Assef has exhibited a marked ability to be a persistent negotiator with a specialty in the Australian and South East Asian markets. He can handle most situations in many business areas, including mergers and acquisitions, growth strategies and strategic due diligence.

When Lincoln Crowne and Company was founded by Nick Assef many years ago, the purpose was to turn it into one of the best business and investment advisory businesses in the world. That ambition was pretty much fulfilled, since the firm is not one of the most prominent firms anywhere. While they specialize in the Australian and South East Asian markets, they negotiate deals all over the world.

Lincoln Crowne following the example set by their founder and lead executive, Nicholas Assef, who like to engage in negotiations using strategies and tactics that are based on “game theory.” By doing so, there is generally greater flexibility and innovation, which means the results are good for everyone involved, which is the very definition of a “win-win.” Everyone at the firm realizes that none of their clients chooses their firm to get basic services. They all have a specific outcome in mind and they want the professional team at Lincoln Crowne to get them to that goal. They are well known for their ability to craft solutions that maximize shareholder value and keep the business growing.

In his growth to become a renowned investment banker and founder of Lincoln Crowne, Nicholas Assef amassed a significant education. Beginning with his Bachelor of Laws, achieved with honors in 1992, Assef earned this accolade from Bond University Law School with the assistance of a partial academic scholarship. He also gained his Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice in 1992 from the University of Technology in Sydney. Continuing at Bond University, Assef graduated in 1995 with his Master of Laws with an emphasis on corporate/takeover law. He attended Harvard Business School, completing a postgraduate module in valuation in 1995. Nick Assef then completed his MBA with a major in game theory and corporate finance in 1998 from the William E Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester in New York.

Capturing a smile or a sunset in a photograph has always been a passion for Nicholas Assef. Since the age of 8 or 9 and a humble introduction to photography by his father, Assef had a love for the art. Once he had that first Minolta 101 in his hands – state-of-the-art at the time – Assef knew it was more the casual picture taking; photography was a hobby worth pursuing as much as possible. And his adventures led him and the camera to snapping worthwhile images not only in his homeland of Australia, but also throughout the Americas, Middle East Asia and the Pacific.

Technology eventually replaced the previous camera and Assef’s skills continued to develop (no pun intended). In March 2016, he created Nicholas Assef Fine Art Photography, a picture project that will benefit charity 100%. All profits generated from the sales of products – products now created with a Canon 1DX for digital and a Hasselblad XPAN 2 for film – raise money for Australian children charities. As a result of personal medical conditions experienced years ago, Assef noticed a lack of funding and decided to help through the means he was able – by sharing his photographic images. From beach life photography to panoramic, black and white, or pictures of Sydney, Assef aims to raise dollars toward these notable and worthy causes.

Lincoln Crowne and Company was founded by Nick Assef years ago to be a major player in the investment advisory business. Since then, it has grown into a very prominent investment firm in the Australian and South East Asian markets, although they negotiate deals all over the world. Assef now serves as the firm’s Executive Director and Senior Analyst, and he has assembled a large team of investment professionals who are all specialists in a number of financial areas.

The professionals at Lincoln Crowne and Company can handle virtually any financial situation or issue, from mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships, to, valuations. They can also assist with the development of, growth strategies, they can perform strategic due diligence and they are experts in the area of shareholder rights, and strategic due diligence. Over the years, the firm, which claims that they offer, “Business solutions with an absolute focus on maximising shareholder value,” has put together and extensive and impressive record.

Following the lead of their founder and lead executive, Lincoln Crowne and Company innovates by applying negotiation strategies and tactics that are based primarily on A “game theory” to negotiations. That is because everyone at the firm realizes that no client pays for the services of such a firm unless they have a specific outcome in mind. Many consider them “tenacious” negotiators and they are well-known for their ability to craft solutions that serve to maximize shareholder value.