Strategic Advisory · M&A · Proprietary Investments
Lancerf advises owners, boards, and executive teams on strategy, transactions, and leadership transitions — drawing on partners with direct experience across the US, UK, China, France, Switzerland, and Germany.
What we do
Four practices, one standard of discretion and rigor — each led with our clients directly, never handed off.
Independent counsel on positioning, growth options, and capital allocation for owners and boards navigating complex or contested decisions.
End-to-end guidance through acquisitions, disposals, and cross-border transactions, backed by partners resident in the relevant markets.
One-to-one counsel for executives stepping into new mandates, scale, or scrutiny.
Direct investment of the firm's own capital — for its own account, never on behalf of third parties or client funds.
Where we work
Our core partners have built their careers inside the markets they advise on.
Corporate finance and boardroom experience across US public and private markets.
City-based transactional and advisory background spanning multiple sectors.
On-the-ground relationships and deal experience across mainland and Hong Kong markets.
Deep roots in French corporate and family-owned business advisory.
Private banking and wealth-holding structures counsel across French- and German-speaking cantons.
Mittelstand and industrial-sector transaction expertise.
Beyond these core markets, we maintain a trusted network of contacts across the rest of the world, engaged as each mandate requires.
How we work
We measure ourselves by the outcomes we deliver for clients — always in strict confidence, and with an uncompromising standard of ethics.
We are judged by the outcomes we achieve for clients, not by hours billed or process for its own sake.
Every engagement is compartmentalized. Information is shared only with those directly involved.
Our advice is never influenced by fees on the other side of a transaction.
We say plainly what we think, including when it is not what a client wants to hear.
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