In addition to plenty of business experience and business education in his background, investment Nick Assef also has a significant level of legal education and experience, as well. He holds a Bachelor of Law Honors degree from Bond University Law School and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Technology Sydney. That is one way he provides an advantage to clients; he can also see the legal consequences of any decision. Nick’s overall business philosophy is embedded in the core principles of his firm, Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited. It’s a big reason the firm strives to provide clients with a lot more than other investment advisory companies. They guide clients to their goals with innovative thinking and the best independent advice possible.

While Nicholas Assef is known a tenacious negotiator, he tries to make sure clients are treated right. Even before he gains so much career Nicholas Assef gained plenty of education. Besides a coveted Post Graduate degree in Valuation from the prestigious Harvard Business School, he also earned an MBA at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. His education wasn’t just in business, however.

With more than 25 years of industry experience and the reins of a company in his hands, Lincoln & Crowne Company founder and executive director Nicholas Assef has amassed a lengthy list of speaking engagements This accomplished lecturer has siphoned skills from his work as an attorney as well as skills as a leader to share valuable knowledge and resources with others in the marketplace.

Both within Sydney -- LCC’s headquarters -- and internationally, Assef has shared vital information with others regarding mergers and acquisitions, investments, capital and financing, risks and returns, and other pivotal monetary topics. He’s also commented heavily on the oil and gas sector, speaking twice at the March 2014 Excellence in Oil & Gas Conference held in Sydney. Additionally, he offered comments on this topic in Shenzhen, China at the December 2014 Global Resource Investment Conference, specific to “M&A in Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Sector.”

Among some of Assef’s older speaking engagements, he spoke about competition property in February 2008 at the Gold Coast Annual Conference Keynote Address. He also tackled the topic of “Accessing Capital Through Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments” at the February 2012 Capital Raising for Junior & Mid Cap Mining Conference held in Perth. Assef often speaks on a variety of subject areas, offering his unique expertise as needed.

Nicholas Assef is best known as the founder of Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, a very prominent investment firm, where he currently serves as an Executive Director and a Senior Analyst. Over the last quarter century, Nicholas Assef and his firm have built up an impressive and extensive body of work in the corporate world, the legal profession and even in the academic world. Nick has come to be known as one of the most dynamic and persuasive mergers and acquisitions investment bankers in the Australian and South East Asian markets.

However, what sets Nicholas Assef apart from many others in his profession is his reputation as a shrewd negotiator, capable of applying strategies and tactics that are based on "game theory" to the negotiations in which he is involved.While he is currently positioned as a specialist in the Australian and South East Asian markets, he actually has a ton of experience in many diverse areas, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and valuations, but he also has the ability to help companies develop successful growth strategies. If that’s not sufficient, he can help companies deal with shareholder rights issues and to perform strategic due diligence. Due diligence is the key to companies avoiding big trouble down the line.

Years before he founded Lincoln Crowne, Nicholas Assef served clients as a corporate attorney with Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney, before he turned his attention to investment banking. In recent days, Nicholas Assef understands that clients don't hire a firm like Lincoln Crowne just for basic services they can get anywhere. Most of the time, they have a specific outcome in mind and they want someone who can attain that for them. His approach to negotiations has been described as "tenacious."

Throughout his quarter-century career, he has accumulated a lot of experience in many areas, including the corporate world, the legal profession and the world of academia. Nicholas Assef has a Post-Graduate degree in Valuation from Harvard Business School, as well as an MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School. Those are in addition to a Bachelor of Law Honors degree from Bond University Law School and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Technology Sydney.

It was his experience that led Nicholas Assef to establish the premiere investment firm, Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited. His goal was to create a phenomenal firm that created a great return for its clients and they have done so. Nicholas Assef continues to serve Lincoln Crowne and Company as their Executive Director and Senior Analyst. As an experienced negotiator and an investment advisory specialist primarily specialized in the the Australian and South East Asian markets, Nicholas Assef’s experience is actually far wider than that. He has worked on deals all over the world.