Clairfield International Germany - Financial Career

Senior Partners
Clairfield International Germany
Darius Kianzad
Darius Kianzad began his career in 1991 at the Treuhandanstalt in Halle and Berlin. Between 1993 and 2005, Mr. Kianzad held leading positions
in renowned audit firms and investment banks such as PricewaterhouseCoopers in Frankfurt and Senior Vice President M&A at Sal. Oppenheim
where he was in charge of M&A transactions in the energy and automotive sectors and also became co-leader of the Industrials segment.
Between 2006 and 2010, Mr. Kianzad was a member of the Management board at ista Group, a leading international energy services company,
in charge of Corporate Development/M&A and Regional head of the „Emerging Markets“.
Darius Oliver Kianzad graduated with a master´s degree in Economics (University of Heidelberg) and has completed a General management
program at the University of St. Gallen and the Advanced management program at INSEAD.
E-mail: kianzad@syncap.de
Andreas Piechotta
Andreas Piechotta has been involved in international equity- and transaction business for almost 16years. As a partner of a known international
M&A advisory company he has been responsible for business development in Eastern Europe and has managed to execute an amount of cross
border transactions, e. g. in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia. Andreas Piechotta began his career 1994 at Pfeifer & Langen, a known sugar
producing German company group. He supported there an amount of privatization processes in the Polish sugar industry. From 1997 to 2004
Andreas Piechotta focused on Private Equity activities of DEWB AG, a subsidiary of JENOPTIK Group.Born in Poland Andreas Piechotta studied
law at the University Bayreuth/Germany with a particular focus on economy law.
E-mail: piechotta@syncap.de
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