Nicholas Assef’s negotiating style has often been described as tenacious. That’s because he strives to use innovative strategies as a way to assist his clients in make business dreams and goals actually happen. One of his favorite innovations comes with his use of investment strategies based on "game theory," which he feels gives him the ability to provide the best advice and counsel to those clients.

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. The basis for Nick Assef's 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. That’s a lot of academic education and it explains a lot.

Over the course of his long quarter-century career, Nicholas Assef has proven himself to be one of the most dynamic and persuasive mergers and acquisitions investment bankers in the Australian and South East Asian markets. As a negotiator, he is described as tenacious, and he strives to use innovative thinking, such as basing his investment strategies on "game theory." By employing such independent thought, he is able to provide every client with clear independent advice and counsel.
 
The approach taken by Nicholas Assef, who is the founder of Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, is based on a tremendous amount of experience over 25 years in various financial disciplines, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and many others. Over that time period, he has built up an extensive body of work experience, in the corporate world, the legal profession and even in the academic field.
 
He studied at Harvard Business School, the University of Rochester, Bond University Law School and the University of Technology Sydney, which gave him an extensive business and legal education. He was also a corporate attorney with Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney. It is this wide range of experiences that gives him the tools to be a good negotiator.

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.