Knut Engelmann
Partner, Head of the Frankfurt officeKnut advises CEOs, boards, and founders on complex capital markets transactions. These include IPOs and cross-border M&A deals, as well as corporate communications, reputation building, positioning mandates, and crisis situations.
Knut advises CEOs, boards, and founders on complex capital markets transactions. These include IPOs and cross-border M&A deals, as well as corporate communications, reputation building, positioning mandates, and crisis situations.
Knut is one of the most experienced IPO advisors in the German-speaking market, having supported numerous high-profile listings over recent years such as Zalando, Delivery Hero, AUTO1, and About You. He has a substantial track record of advising founders and boards at leading tech and high-growth companies on their strategic positioning, as well as in corporate and financial communications and a variety of special situations.
Knut also focuses on restructuring, crisis, and reputation mandates, where he has supported some of Germany’s biggest corporates in a range of business-critical situations.
Prior to joining Kekst CNC in 2011, Knut spent more than 20 years in various leadership roles in international finance and business journalism – including at global news agency Thomson Reuters and at Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal – in Germany, the United States, Switzerland, and Austria.
Knut is a graduate of University of London (UCL) and New York University.
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Kekst CNC
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Bockenheimer Landstr. 24
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany