Financing growth opportunities

Fabian Lautenschlager

Fabian Lautenschlager is partner at the Ravensburg office since 2019 and is responsible for the needs of our mid-market clients in buy and sell mandates. After a career at the Boston Consulting Group and over 10 years at the global mid cap M&A consultancy GCA Altium in Munich and London, he became part of the Sancovia team. Fabian Lautenschlager thus brings bundled expertise from national and international M&A practice through more than 15 years of relevant professional experience to our processes. 

Fabian Lautenschlager holds a degree in economics with a focus on finance and studied at the University of Ulm and the University of Bologna. 

Christopher Leek

Christopher Leek is a partner, based in Frankfurt, and specialises in buy- and sell-side transaction advisory services.

He has over 20 years experience in M&A accrued at PricewaterhouseCoopers and latterly FTI Consulting, where he jointly established its German corporate finance presence.  During that time he has advised on multiple large and mid-cap domestic and cross-border transactions, principally for financial sponsors.  He has a broad sector expertise including industrials, retail, education and services.

Christopher holds a degree in economics and accounting from the University of Bristol.  He is also a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) in the United Kingdom.

Oliver Steinberg

Oliver Steinberg is M&A Partner at our Frankfurt office and advises our mid-cap clients on buy-side and sell-side mandates. 
With more than 17 years of M&A experience, Oliver has advised on numerous mandates for financial investors, small and medium-sized enterprises and multinational corporations both in Germany and abroad.
In the five years before joining Sancovia, Oliver worked for Lincoln International, a global mid-cap M&A advisory firm, where he was a member of the Financial Sponsors Group and responsible for business with family offices in the DACH region. Prior to that, he was an M&A advisor for Commerzbank and Bear Stearns, and in private equity for palero capital and Ellion Management. Oliver’s experience as an advisor, investor and entrepreneur has shaped his approach to consulting, which combines in-depth process know-how and goal orientation with empathy and understanding for the needs of his clients and their counterparts.

Oliver holds a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) from Cass Business School.