Nicholas Assef and His Photography Roots

Art can be such an important part of the development of a child. In the case of Nicholas Assef, his dad introduced him to photography when he was a young child. Once he developed his skill, he was able to use the then state of the art Minolta 101 to earn his first few dollars taking pics at a medical convention and was instantly in love with photography. Since then, that camera has been on more than a few adventures including traveling through the Americas, Middle East Asia and the Pacific. The old Minolta warhorse still sits proudly on his shelf, but has been replaced by superior developed technology. He currently shoot digital with a Canon 1DX and in film (particularly Panoramic) with a Hasselblad XPAN 2. While he utilizes technology to the best of its abilities, Nicholas Assef believes in keeping the integrity of the photograph through minimal retouching and enhancements.

Lincoln Crowne and Nicholas Assef

While he is certainly best known as the founder of the prominent investment firm Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, Nicholas Assef has a lot more than that to offer his clients. One reason he has been able to develop his firm into a team of many of the most prominent investment specialists, especially in the Australian and South East Asian markets, is because of his wide range of experience and expertise in mergers and acquisitions and many other areas over more than two decades.

Ever since he was in Harvard Business School earning a Post Graduate degree in Valuation, and the University of Rochester, where he earned an MBA at their Simon Business School, Nicholas Assef has developed a tremendous level of business experience, as well as legal experience and in academics. His overall business philosophy is embedded in Lincoln Crowne's core principles, in which the firm promises to provide clients with a lot more than other firms. They strive to provide clients with innovative thinking and easy-to-understand independent advice. Not only is Nick Assef tenacious as a negotiator, but he always tries to find solutions for his clients that maximize shareholder value.

Nicholas Assef, Founder of Lincoln Crowne

Nicholas Assef is the founder of Lincoln Crowne & Company Pty. Limited, a very prominent investment firm, where he also serves as Executive Director and Senior Analyst. Mr. Assef and Lincoln Crowne are specialists in the Australian and South East Asian markets and he has a tremendous amount of experience and expertise in a number of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, valuation, growth strategies, shareholder rights, and strategic due diligence. Over more than 25 years, Nicholas Assef has built up an extensive body of experience in the corporate world, the legal profession and even in the academic world.
 
He has done a lot since studying at Harvard Business School, where he earned a Post Graduate degree in Valuation and completing a Master of Business Administration at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester in New York. He also holds a Bachelor of Law Honors degree in 1992 from Bond University Law School and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from University of Technology Sydney. Long before he founded Lincoln Crowne, he was a corporate attorney with Allen, Allen & Hemsley in Sydney before he turned his attention to investment banking.
 
Over his long career, Nicholas Assef has shown himself to be among the most dynamic and persuasive mergers and acquisitions investment bankers in the Australian and South East Asian markets. He is a shrewd negotiator who applies strategies and tactics based on "game theory" to negotiations. Assef realizes that clients don't hire a firm like his just for “basic services;” they want a desired outcome. That's why he takes an approach that is best described as "tenacious" and provides solutions designed to maximize shareholder value. Nicholas Assef's business philosophy is found in Lincoln Crowne's core principles; they provide clients not only with deal making expertise, but also innovative thinking, deep commercial & financial judgment and clear independent advice.

Lincoln Crowne & Company: Providing Corporate Solutions

Lincoln Crowne & Company is not a newcomer to the industry of business solutions and corporate strategic development. They provide high quality business solutions with the aim of maximising shareholder value for their corporate clients. It is not typical for corporate clients to engage their firm for a mergers and acquisitions service, it is rather more common for those clients to seek out Lincoln Crowne & Company because they knows that the company can achieve a certain outcome for them.

The approach that Lincoln Crowne & Company takes to their work is first and foremost tenacious—they work hard and they deliver dynamic solutions to even the most challenging problems and transactional opportunities. Giving their clients the best possible shareholder value is the central aim of what Lincoln Crowne & Company does.

Lincoln Crowne & Company was founded in Sydney, Australia. It was established by businessman and entrepreneur Nicholas Assef, who saw a need for an independent boutique investment bank and strategy corporate advisory firm. This company has operations in both Sydney and Hong Kong, along with affiliate branches all over the world, including in Boston, Malaysia, Singapore, India, and Vietnam. The company's global reach has resulted from the respect it gets due to high quality services. Their adherence to their core principles has also allowed them to be as successful as they are. The firm exists to deliver deal making experience to its clients, as well as providing sound commercial and financial judgment, innovative thinking, and clear independent advice.