A propos
Leontine Koens-Betz is a partner at Accuracy. She has extensive experience supporting clients with transactions in various contexts: preparation, valuation, due diligence (buy-side or sell-side), integration or transaction disputes. She also supports clients in their other strategic decisions including refinancing and restructuring.
Leontine joined Accuracy in 2007 and was integral to the opening of the Dutch office. Prior to joining Accuracy, she gained experience as an auditor with Arthur Andersen and as a transaction specialist with a Big 4 firm.
Leontine is mostly active with engagements in Benelux but has led and been involved in engagements in other European countries (including Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland) and the US.
Leontine parle le néerlandais, l'anglais, l'allemand et le français.
Qualifications
- Maîtrise en économie d'entreprise, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1998 Économie d'entreprise, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1998
Une expertise approfondie
Leontine is a transaction specialist, who supports a diverse portfolio of corporate and private equity clients with their (contemplated) acquisitions and disposals.
She can be involved from initiation to closing and even disputes resulting from the M&A process.
Additionally, Leontine has experience in supporting clients with analysis of strategic decisions. She has broad experience of independent business reviews, performance analysis, business plan reviews and complex modelling engagements.
Leontine has extensive knowledge of Dutch GAAP and IFRS.
Exemples d'engagements
- Various M&A support engagements for a Dutch health and nutrition MNC in the Netherlands, USA, Germany, Italy, France, Sweden and Finland, including the investment in a renewable products company and the successful sale of a composite resins distributor and an industry leader in alkyd and resins.
- Engagements for a private equity investment group in the energy and waste sector and the ICT sector (among others, an electronic waste company, ash recycling companies, a Dutch energy supplier and green energy companies).
- Due diligence engagements (including set-up of detailed business plans and analysis of synergies), valuation and PPA engagements for a global utility operating in the waste and water sectors in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and France.
- Diverses missions de due diligence pour le compte d'une société de capital-investissement, notamment l'acquisition d'un fabricant d'emballages, d'un producteur de bornes de recharge pour véhicules électriques, d'une entreprise de jus de fruits et de légumes de qualité supérieure, d'un développeur de logiciels de premier plan et de produits complémentaires connexes.
- Sell-side and buy-side support to a global insurance broker on (intended) acquisitions and sale of assets in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Belgium, as well as commercial and strategic analysis in respect of the roll-out of new services.
- Buy-side due diligence engagements for a private equity firm, including the acquisitions of a custom-designed circuit boards company, a fast-food chain, the largest industrial bakery in the Netherlands and related add-ons.
- Due diligence support to numerous other large corporates (Europe’s leading commercial real estate company, a large German postal courier service provider, a European utilities company, a leading Dutch bank, one of the largest natural gas producers in the Netherlands and a large Swedish vehicle manufacturer) and private equity funds on (intended) acquisitions or sale of assets in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and Italy.