Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has announced that Olle Lundqvist has joined the firm, as a Managing Director, to head A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) Group covering the Nordic region.
Mr. Lundqvist comes to A&M from Platinum Equity (Platinum), where he most recently served as a Senior Vice President M&A Operations in London. He headed Platinum’s M&A Operations work for their main fund ($6.5 billion) in Europe. Mr. Lundqvist brings more than 20 years of experience leading performance improvement and operational restructuring of companies. Concentrating primarily on operational due diligence, post-acquisition value creation, carve-outs, post-merger integration, and restructuring.
The addition of Mr. Lundqvist signifies the latest significant step in the ongoing growth of A&M’s PEPI practice in Europe, with Stefano Matalucci recently joining the firm as a Managing Director to lead the practice in Italy.
“A&M continues to extend our private equity footprint strategically across Europe, where there is a rising demand from Private Equity funds, and their portfolio companies, for practical and impactful solutions,” said Mike Trenouth, Managing Director in London and Co-head of PEPI in Europe. “Olle’s industry experience and expertise embodies our commitment to provide the leadership, action, results the private equity industry requires to develop and execute successful exit strategies for their portfolio companies.”
Mr. Lundqvist has acted globally across a wide range of industries, including business services, distribution and logistics, industrial products manufacturing and services, packaging and paper, travel and leisure, aircraft maintenance and services, consumer goods and private label products, construction materials manufacturing and distribution, automotive, chemical manufacturing and distribution, and large infrastructure projects.
Mr. Lundqvist’s appointment continues A&M’s pan-European expansion over the past two decades, starting with the 2001 launch of its London office. More recently, the firm has expanded across the Nordic region, with recent office openings in Helsinki and Oslo following the launch of the Stockholm office back in 2017. In addition, the firm has continued its growth across Europe, opening new offices in Düsseldorf in Germany, Zurich and Geneva in Switzerland and Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the UK. A&M now has 24 offices in Europe across 17 countries.
Taus Wolfsberg, Managing Director and Head of A&M’s Global Transaction Advisory Group in The Nordics, commented: “Private equity is taking on increasingly large and challenging situations in Europe and across the globe. At A&M, our operational due diligence, post-deal implementation and wider transactional capabilities are continuing to help private equity firms navigate these opportunities in order to realise their full potential.”
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