Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Partner operating in the Real Estate space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Lucian Schönefelder
Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Daniel Pietrzak
Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Jurcell Virginia
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Jurcell Virginia (London) joined KKR in 2012 and is a Director in the Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Virginia was responsible for the business development activities for EIM SA in the Netherlands and Southern Africa. Previously, he was engaged with a number of entrepreneurial companies. Mr. Virginia started his career with ABN AMRO where he worked for 7 years in the corporate finance department in Amsterdam and Sao Paulo. His most recent position was as VP Corporate Finance. Mr. Virginia holds a Masters in Econometrics from Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Juan de Ochoa
Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Clayton Perry
Managing Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Clayton Perry (London) joined KKR in 2014 as part of Avoca Capital and is responsible for the strategic development of KKR’s collateralized loan obligation business. Before joining Avoca in 2010, he worked for Credit Suisse for sixteen years in a variety of roles, most recently running the collateralized loan obligation arranging business. Mr. Perry has a B.A. from Otago University and an M.Sc from the London School of Economics.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
James Marsh
Director, Principal, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
James Marsh (London) joined KKR in 2012 as a member of the Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, he worked at Barclays Capital in its power, utilities & infrastructure group, where he was involved in a variety of merger, acquisition and financing transactions. He also worked for three years at the quantitative investment strategies division of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He holds an M.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. from the University of Cambridge.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Daan Knottenbelt
Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Douglas Watt
Director, Client and Partner Group of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Douglas Watt (London) joined KKR in 2011 and is part of the Client and Partner Group. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Watt was with Goldman, Sachs & Co., most recently as part of the U.K. Institutional team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Previously, he worked at BNP Paribas in their equity derivatives team, and with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Cayman Islands. He started his career with Arthur Andersen in Glasgow where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Mr. Watt holds a BAcc (Hons) in Accountancy and Marketing from Stirling University, and is a CFA Charterholder.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Stephen Nundy
Partner & Chief Technology Officer of Lakestar
An experienced Technologist and Engineer with a passion for setting strategy and building commercial solutions for complex and ambitious businesses. Collected over 20 years of global experience, leading new technology innovation, building distributed, high-performance teams, driving significant client engagement, within dynamic and highly competitive businesses. Passionate focus on investing and building companies, and their teams, with hyper-growth solutions and technologies to match.
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About Lakestar: Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs.
Yemi Lalude
Managing Partner and Head of TPG Growth’s investments of TPG
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About TPG: TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds.
Vincenzo Morelli
Partner of TPG
Vincenzo Morelli is Partner Emeritus and Senior Advisor at TPG Capital. While associated with TPG, as an Operating Partner from 2005 to 2012, he has served as Chairman of Mey Icki and of Bally International SA, as well as Director of TIM Hellas SARL and is currently Vice Chairman of Télédiffusion de France SA (TDF). He is also Chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and was Chairman of the European Private Equity Roundtable (EPER) for three years, since its formation in 2009. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Morelli was a partner at Alvarez and Marsal, a Senior Advisor with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice, CEO of Kontron Instruments NV (a company owned by BC Partners), Executive Vice President of Fiat Group – in charge of New Holland, and President of GE Medical Systems-Europe and Compagnie Générale de Radiologie (CGR). He started his career at the Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Morelli holds an MBA from Standford University, where he was a Miller Scholar, and an MA with Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, of which he is a Foundation Fellow. Mr. Morelli is also a non-executive Board member of Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme.
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About Alvarez & Marsal, The Boston Consulting Group, TPG: TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds.
Edward Beckley
Partner of TPG
Edward Beckley is a Partner at TPG based in London, where he focuses on opportunities in the infrastructure sector globally. Prior to joining TPG in 2017, Edward was with Macquarie as Head of the European Infrastructure funds management business (MIRA). Edward graduated from Durham University with a BS in natural sciences.
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About TPG: TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds.
Simon Fulbrook
Partner of Goodwin Procter
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About Goodwin Procter: Goodwin Procter provides corporate law and litigation services.
Richard Lever
Partner of Goodwin Procter
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About Goodwin Procter: Goodwin Procter provides corporate law and litigation services.
Francesco Loredan
Co-Chairman and Managing Partner of BC Partners
Mr. Francesco Loredan serves as a Founder and Member of Advisory Board of Innogest SGR S.p.A, where he was a Director. Mr. Loredan served as Co-Managing Partner and a Co-Chairman at BC Partners. He joined BC Partners in 1989. Prior to this, he served at the Boston Consulting Group for four years, where he worked on assignments in France and Italy. Previously, he spent three years in corporate finance at Bank of America Corporation as a Credit Officer. He serves as the Chairman of Mark IV Industries Inc., U.S.A. He serves as Non-Executive Director of Heating Finance PLC. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Interpump Group SPA. He served as a Director of Baxi Group Ltd from January 16, 2004 to February 18, 2008. He speaks Italian, English, French, and Spanish. Mr. Loredan has an M.B.A. from INSEAD and holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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About BC Partners: BC Partners is an international alternative investment firm focused private equity, credit, real estate, and investment strategies.
Laurent Donin de Rosière
Partner, Co-Head of Investor Relations of BC Partners
Laurent Donin de Rosière joined BC Partners in London in 2009. Previously, Laurent spent four years at Citigroup, most recently as director in the Citi Alternatives Distribution Group focusing on investor relationships in Europe. Other previous positions include: principal at Acanthus Advisers LLP, a corporate finance advisory firm focused on private equity; marketing director at venture capital firm RVC Capital Europe Ltd (a spin-out from Reuters) in Munich and London; and assistant vice president in the Alternative Investments Group at LCF Rothschild. Laurent graduated from Imperial College in London, with a BEng in Aeronautical Engineering, and holds a Diploma in Portfolio Management.
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About BC Partners: BC Partners is an international alternative investment firm focused private equity, credit, real estate, and investment strategies.
Tania Daguere Lindbäck
Partner of BC Partners
Tania Daguere Lindbäck is a Managing Director in the BC Partners Private Equity Group based in London.Since joining BC Partners in 2004, Ms. Daguere has been involved in the execution of BC’s investments in Sulo, Centerparcs, ICS, and Pulse. Prior to joining BC Partners, Ms. Daguere workedat Goldman Sachs in the Mergers & Acquisitions division in London and Paris.Ms. Daguere received a Diplôme de Grande Ecole from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales School of Management in Paris. She has a Master’s Degree in Finance.egree in Finance.
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About BC Partners: BC Partners is an international alternative investment firm focused private equity, credit, real estate, and investment strategies.
Alberto Matta
Managing Partner of Optimum Asset Management
Alberto has 20 years of experience in the investment business. After obtaining a university degree in Finance at Northeastern University in Boston, he relocated first to New York and then to London where he has taken various responsibilities at different organizations. After working for Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust where he contributed to the development of the derivatives business for the Italian market, in 1998 he took a role with Paribas (now BNP Paribas) on the Origination side, where he worked for 7 years, focusing on complex securisation and structured credit derivatives transactions and effectively creating and sourcing investment instruments for institutional investors around the globe. In 2001 Alberto was appointed European Co-Head of the Origination business for Financial Institutions. He moved to ABN AMRO Bank in London in 2004 and Barclays Capital in 2006 where he focused on the distribution side of the investment business. In this capacity, Alberto was able to work closely with large institutional investors (Banks, Insurance Companies, Pension Funds) and address their investment/portfolio needs. In 2007 Alberto left his position as a Director at Barclays Capital in London to assume responsibilities as Managing Director of BMB Investment Management Partners, SL in Barcelona and as Board Member of Optimum Evolution Funds SIF. After leaving his role at BMB Investment, Alberto founded and assumed responsibility as CEO of Luxembourg based Optimum Asset Management (Luxembourg) SA. In 2017, he was appointed Chairman of the firm.
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About Optimum Asset Management: Optimum Asset Management is a boutique real estate investor and developer.
Robin Boehringer
Founder and Partner of BBox Capital
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About BBox Capital: BBox Capital focuses on innovative and valuable real estate business models that specialize in investment management.
Kent Gardner
Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Evans Randall Investors
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About Evans Randall Investors: Evans Randall Investors is a British-based property investment and development business.
Matthew Treagus
Partner – Baringa of rtobjects
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About : “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Judith Rinearson
Partner; Payment Group leader; co-chair of global fintech and blockchain groups of K&L Gates LLP
Judith Rinearson is a partner in the firm’s New York and London offices. Ms. Rinearson concentrates her practice in prepaid and emerging payment systems, electronic payments, crypto/virtual currencies, reward programs, ACH and check processing. She has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 18 years at American Express’s General Counsel’s Office. Her expertise focuses particularly in the areas of emerging payments and compliance with state and federal consumer protection laws, anti-money laundering laws, state money transmitter licensing laws and abandoned property laws.
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About K&L Gates LLP: K&L Gates LLP is an international law firm with offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the United States.
Nicolas Duleroy
Partner – Private Equity of Maya Capital
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About Maya Capital: Maya Capital is a Real Estate and Growth Equity investment firm, focusing on Europe.
Patrik Schumacher
Partner and Director of Zaha Hadid Architects
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About Zaha Hadid Architects: We work at all scales and in all sectors. We create transformative cultural, corporate, residential and other spaces .
Hasham Ullah
Managing Partner & Founder of White Lion
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About GymCraft, White Lion: White Lion provides consultation services and solutions for the investment industry.
Puian Mollaian
Partner of Forticap
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About Forticap: Investment Company – Technology, Real Estate and Private Equity
John Salmon
Financial Services Technology Partner of Hogan Lovells
John is a highly experienced IT lawyer with a market leading reputation in the financial services sector. His main focus is advising financial institutions on their strategic IT projects and he supports his clients in implementing innovative digital and technology solutions whilst managing legal and regulatory risk. John has a reputation as a lawyer in the FinTech area and has been heavily involved with leading edge developments. He has extensive experience of drafting and negotiating both customer and supplier IT services contracts, including for development projects, software licensing, cloud, and systems integration.
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About Hogan Lovells: Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Rachel Kent
Partner, Head of Financial Institutions Group of Hogan Lovells
Rachel leads the firm’s Global Financial Institutions Sector, advising banks, insurers, asset managers and clearing houses and exchanges. She has been recognized as a leading individual in her field by industry commentators and legal directories for nearly two decades. Her vast experience at the heart of the sector allows her to make instinctive judgements in tackling structural and regulatory issues. Chambers UK’s 2016 guide praises her “pretty encyclopaedic knowledge of financial services broadly,” which she can call on in the context of commercial and corporate transactions as well as regulatory matters. This mix has given her valuable experience of the regulations applying to how institutions must be organised, how they sell their products and services, and how they contract with others. Rachel is known for being tenacious in defending her clients’ interests, attracting widespread admiration as a formidable negotiator. Clients have said “you feel confident you won’t lose any battles unnecessarily” with her at your side (Chambers UK, 2015).
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About Hogan Lovells: Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
James Doyle
Partner and Head of International Debt Capital Markets of Hogan Lovells
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About Hogan Lovells: Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Eduardo Ustaran
Partner of Hogan Lovells
Eduardo is a partner in the global Privacy and Information Management practice of Hogan Lovells and an internationally recognised expert in privacy and data protection law. He is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado based in London. Eduardo is a member of the Board of Directors of the IAPP, co-founder and editor of Data Protection Law & Policy, and a member of the panel of experts of DataGuidance. Eduardo is executive editor of European Privacy: Law and Practice for Data Protection Professionals (IAPP, 2011), and co-author of Beyond Data Protection (Springer, 2013), E-Privacy and Online Data Protection (Tottel Publishing, 2007) and of the Law Society’s Data Protection Handbook (2004). Eduardo has lectured at the University of Cambridge on data protection as part of its Masters of Bioscience Enterprise, and regularly speaks at international conferences.
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About Data Protection Law & Policy, Hogan Lovells: Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Emily Reid
Partner of Hogan Lovells
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About Hogan Lovells: Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Eduardo Ustaran
Partner of Hogan Lovells
Eduardo is a partner in the global Privacy and Information Management practice of Hogan Lovells and an internationally recognised expert in privacy and data protection law. He is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogado based in London. Eduardo is a member of the Board of Directors of the IAPP, co-founder and editor of Data Protection Law & Policy, and a member of the panel of experts of DataGuidance. Eduardo is executive editor of European Privacy: Law and Practice for Data Protection Professionals (IAPP, 2011), and co-author of Beyond Data Protection (Springer, 2013), E-Privacy and Online Data Protection (Tottel Publishing, 2007) and of the Law Society’s Data Protection Handbook (2004). Eduardo has lectured at the University of Cambridge on data protection as part of its Masters of Bioscience Enterprise, and regularly speaks at international conferences.
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About Data Protection Law & Policy, Hogan Lovells: Hogan Lovells is a London-based multinational law firm that provides legal advisory services.
Jennifer Antcliff
Partner of Carpmaels & Ransford
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About Carpmaels & Ransford: Carpmaels & Ransford is a full-service European intellectual property firm at the forefront of a rapidly changing IP landscape.
Dipak Mistry
Director of Partner Relations of DadShed
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About British Transport Police, DadShed: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Boe Pahari
Global Head and Managing Partner of AMP Capital Investors
Boe Pahari, Global Head of Infrastructure Equity, Managing Partner, joined AMP Capital in March 2010 and is responsible for leading AMP Capital’s global infrastructure equity activities. Boe Pahari has over 20 years of experience in the industry having started his career at Citigroup in Sydney and subsequently worked for more than 13 years with ABN AMRO based in Singapore, Amsterdam, New York and London. During this period, Boe Pahari worked in regional and global positions. Subsequently, in Royal Bank of Scotland Boe Pahari was appointed Global co-Head Principal Strategies.
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About AMP Capital Investors: AMP Capital Investors is an investment house with heritage and strength in real estate and infrastructure.
Nikolay Slavov
Managing Partner of Edgile Properties
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About Edgile Properties: UK-based property management and investment company.
Joe Kim
Managing Director/Partner of UPIN Fund Management
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About UPIN Fund Management, XnTree: UPIN is an investment and management consulting firm that helps to optimize its clients’ business solutions and meet its goals.
Graham Mann
Senior Partner of H2O Building Services
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About H2O Building Services, H2O Building Services: H2O Building Services helps company save significant amounts of money through leak detection, water audits and repairs.
Graham Mann
Senior Partner of H2O Building Services
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About H2O Building Services, H2O Building Services: H2O Building Services helps company save significant amounts of money through leak detection, water audits and repairs.
Phil Hails-Smith
Partner of Joelson
Phil Hails-Smith is Partner in the Corporate Commercial Team at Joelson. He advises on all areas of corporate and commercial law. Acts for start-ups, owner managed businesses, management teams, AIM listed companies. A wealth of experience in the leisure and retail sectors.
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About Joelson: Joelson offer a range of top-ranked legal services spanning corporate, property, employment, litigation.
Jagvinder Kang
Partner, International & UK Head of IT Law of Mills & Reeve
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About Mills & Reeve: Mills & Reeve is a law firm can be a complex experience so we try to make things as simple and stress-free as possible.
Jonathan Jackson
Partner of D Young & Co
Jonathan Jackson is a European Patent Attorney specialising in the protection and enforcement of IP rights for innovators in the fields of electronics and engineering. Rapidly building a reputation as the as the go-to attorney specialising in ‘wearable tech’ related IP rights, Jonathan regularly travels around the world to speak at high profile conferences about patent and design enforcement strategies for innovative companies. He has authored numerous articles for the trade press and is often quoted in the media on wearable tech matters, including recently in The Times newspaper. A partner at leading IP firm D Young & Co, his clients range from large multi-national companies to smaller start-ups and SMEs. And during his career, he has worked both in private practice and in the IP department of Sony Corporation, giving him a thorough understanding of IP related issues affecting businesses of all sizes.
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About D Young & Co: D Young & Co is a leading intellectual property law firm. We set the standard for legal expertise and technical knowledge in IP.
Doug Ealey
Partner and European Patent Attorney of D Young & Co
Doug is an experienced patent practitioner, specialising in drafting and obtaining patent applications world-wide in both private practice and industry. Doug’s areas of expertise are in computer technology fields (including hardware and software), consumer electronics and mobile telephony. He has previously managed in-house patent portfolios for Motorola UK Ltd, whilst clients in private practice have included major consumer electronics companies, research groups and start-ups. Prior to becoming a patent attorney, Doug was a research engineer for the Defence Research Agency (now QinetiQ) between 1992 and 1995, and after completing his PhD became a research engineer for Motorola Labs between 1999 and 2002, where his work on distributed speech recognition was incorporated into the 3G standard. Having been established in 1891, D Young & Co has a long and proud history of supporting pioneering companies in emerging technologies and is ranked as a ‘top tier’ firm across the UK legal directories for IP and legal services.
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About D Young & Co: D Young & Co is a leading intellectual property law firm. We set the standard for legal expertise and technical knowledge in IP.
Yves Hayaux du Tilly
Partner of Nader, Hayaux & Goebel
Partner at Nader, Hayaux & Goebel
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About Nader, Hayaux & Goebel: Nader, Hayaux & Goebel (NHG) is a market leader in mergers & acquisitions.
