Lucien Moolenaar, Managing Partner

Lucien is a senior corporate finance and private equity lawyer with blue chip private practice and investment banking experience in the UK, Africa, and Europe.

He practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell and Rogers & Wells and has advised financial institutions, corporates and private investors on transactions in the UK and across EMEA, including several landmark cross-border transactions.

Lucien also spent six years in senior leadership roles at Renaissance Capital, the emerging markets investment bank based in London. As Executive Director and Head of Legal, he helped develop and execute the firm’s strategy and its expansion to seven countries in EMEA while managing the legal and compliance teams in those regions. He also provided strategic counsel on complex restructuring transactions involving various businesses within the Renaissance Group.

Before joining Renaissance Capital, Lucien spent four years at Merrill Lynch, as a Director and Head of Equity Capital Markets Legal in London and General Counsel of Merrill Lynch South Africa in Johannesburg.

Lucien currently serves as Vice Chair and Independent Non-Executive Director of Emerging Africa Capital Advisory, the investment banking arm of Emerging Capital Africa Group, which provides integrated investment banking, asset management, and trustee services across Africa. In addition, he is a member of the Group's Risk Management and Compliance Committee.

While at Renaissance Capital, Lucien served as Company Secretary of the FCA regulated investment bank, Executive Director of several subsidiaries, and a member of the Group Risk Committee and Group Audit Committee, providing strategic oversight and advice across several business lines.

Prior to founding Anthem Advisory, Lucien was a Co-Founder and Director of Emerging Crowd, the London based fintech firm. European FinTech Top 100 winner in 2016, the firm advised and raised capital for SMEs in the UK, Africa and Asia.

Lucien graduated from Harvard University and Fordham Law School and is a member of the New York Bar.

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