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by a searcher from INSEAD
in London, UK

5yrs ago

Solo searcher looking to acquire in the broader retail & consumer space

Solo searcher looking to acquire in the broader retail & consumer space. Focused on Western Europe - Belgium, the Netherlands, UK & France.

Principal with BCG and former transaction lawyer with Clifford Chance. My focus has been on value creation & growth - with plenty of experience digitizing traditional brick & mortar businesses.

I'm a Belgian living in West-London. Studied law and engineering (KU Leuven, NYU Law) and have an MBA from INSEAD (12D).

Glad to be here & would love to hear from you. Also on Linkedin (redacted)

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reply by an investor 5yrs ago
from University of Pennsylvania in Washington, DC, USA

Welcome Fred - great background. I'm a serial entrepreneur & investor in self-funded search (7 deals inredactedif I can ever help, DM or redacted

reply by an investor 5yrs ago
from INSEAD in Madrid, Spain

Hello Fred, fellow Inseader here (10D).
I'd say multi-country searches in Europe are not easy, not even when there's a strong connection among them (typically DACH region, also Iberia, Czech Republic + Slovakia or Baltics come to mind). Usually searchers: 1) focus in the big country with occassional incursions in the others, or 2) target them sequentially, but this is not a very tested approach yet.
We have invested in companies and funds in all your countries, happy to chat -- redacted