Clairfield International Germany - Financial Career

Senior Partners
Clairfield International Germany
Dr.-Ing. Lutz Lorenz
Lutz started his professional career in 1977 in industry and subsequently worked in Investment Banking/ Mergers & Acquisitions for more than
30 years. His industrial experiences are backed by a couple of years within the former Mannesmann Group and with Kleinewefers Group of
Companies as head of the central Marketing Department. Lutz went into banking in 1983 by joining WestLB as deputy head of the M&A
Department. In late 1990 he became co-founder and MD of Banexi Deutschland GmbH, the German CF entity of the former BNP Group. Until
2001 Lutz also held senior positions at KPMG and as Executive Director at UBS Deutschland. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering
(Dipl.-Ing.) from University of Karlsruhe as well a PhD. (Dr.-Ing.) in Ferrous Metallurgy from Technical University of Aachen/ Aix-la-Chapelle.
E-mail: lorenz@syncap.de
Dr. Albert A. Schander
Prior to founding SynCap, Albert worked as Executive Director/ Co-Head Corporate Finance for an international Investment Banking Group
where he was responsible for international fund raising projects and public placements. Further milestones in his career were BAI (Deutsche
Bank Group)/ Milan, KPMG/ Milan and Lehman Brothers/ Frankfurt, where he, among other responsibilities, advised on M&A transactions of
international scope. Albert studied Law and Economics at the Universities of Passau, Pavia/ Italy and Munich. He is qualified as an attorney-atlaw
in Germany and earned his law degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and his PhD from Friedrich-Schiller-University of
Jena.
E-mail: schander@syncap.de
Dirk F. Freiland
Dirk has nine years experience in M&A and corporate finance. Prior to SynCap he was co-founder of a medium sized M&A company in southern
Germany. Before he worked as senior manager at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) in Strategy and Change Management where he
was in his last function responsible for building up the M&A team and activities for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Further milestones in his
career were a small service company he build up from 20 up to 120 people within 14 months and Alcatal (Paris) where he worked in research
and development. Dirk studied mechanical engineering, electronics and computer science of the university of applied sciences of
Esslingen/Stuttgart and Paris.
E-mail: freiland@syncap.de
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