Lucien Moolenaar

Managing Partner

Lucien is a senior corporate finance 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 hundreds of transactions in the UK and 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 a Non-Executive Director of EAC Advisory Limited, a Nigerian investment bank based in Lagos. He has also served on a number of other company boards, risk and audit committees and management boards in the international financial services sector.

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.