Karine Lenczner

Karine Lenczner specializes in M&A transactions (private equity and industrial transactions) and venture capital (fundraising). For more than 20 years, she has been advising both investors (in particular, the market’s largest investment funds) and founders, business owners and family groups.

Before joining Frieh Associés in 2019, she worked for over 15 years in the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where she also worked with Michel Frieh and Emmanuel Scialom. She was seconded for over a year to Willkie Farr’s New York office.

She is a member of the Paris Bar and a graduate of ESCP Europe (major legal and financial engineering) after a classe préparatoire and a DESS (Master 2) in Business Law and Tax.

What clients and the trade press say:

“Karine is efficient, impressive and subtle” (Managing Partner of an investment fund)

“It is fairly unusual to come across people (especially in your trade) who have both a perfect command of the technical side of their trade and a high level of interpersonal skills. I would even go so far as to say that they have the intelligence of human relations” (Corporate General Counsel of a CAC 40 company)

“A constant availability and a great responsiveness; precise and very accurate drafting; the ability to distinguish between the important points to be negotiated and what is incidental, with a sometimes sharp sense of humor that puts the pressure of a deal into perspective” (Managing Partner Investment Fund).

“I have had the opportunity to work with a great many advisors in my career. Karine’s quality and promptness make her one of the best I have come across on the market. Her keen understanding of her clients enables her to provide genuine solutions that go beyond legal advice. A must have.” (Founder).