Zanders has entered the German market with a everlasting presence, establishing two workplaces concurrently and onboarding a launching group of specialists to pursue its ambition of changing into a number one participant within the nation’s treasury and threat consulting scene.
The Dutch-origin consultancy has been lively within the German marketplace for near a decade, serving shoppers by means of fly-in groups staffed from its workplaces in Zurich (launched in 2010), London (launched in 2008) and Amsterdam (headquarters).
Now with an on the bottom operation in Germany, Zanders will be capable to higher serve its worldwide clients in Germany and deepen its consumer relationships with native shoppers.
“We’re very enthusiastic about increasing our actions within the DACH area,” mentioned Laurens Tijdhof, CEO and Managing Accomplice at Zanders, including that the transfer aligns with the agency’s ambition to scale-up its enterprise.
Zanders has employed a group of seasoned specialists for each workplaces, who will advise each firms and monetary establishments on treasury and threat administration subjects. This contains the high-profile rent of Carsten Jäkel – most just lately International Head of Treasury at EY – and numerous his group members additionally crossing from the Huge 4 agency, together with Stephan Plein.
Jäkel, who’s a Principal at Zanders, was a accomplice at EY and beforehand spent over a decade with fellow Huge 4 corporations PwC and KPMG. Plein was a director at EY (he is also a director at Zanders) and earlier than that spent fifteen years at KPMG. Among the many different senior hires is Robert Richter, a former Deloitter appointed a senior supervisor.
Commenting on the launch, Jäkel mentioned: “As Zanders does in lots of international locations worldwide, we provide treasury consulting from A to Z, so from treasury technique and group to expertise choice & implementation, together with servicing firms and personal fairness companies in treasury associated subjects of transactions.”
Martijn Wycisk, Principal at Zanders and Head of the Zurich workplace, welcomed the growth into Germany, stating: “The German workplaces provide us further basis for our providers in Switzerland and your complete DACH area, which provides a broader base in assets and experience.”
Throughout its workplaces in Europe, the US and Asia, Zanders has over 225 specialist treasury and threat consultants.