Lennard is a partner in De Brauw’s corporate/M&A practice, and head of the private equity practice. He acts for Dutch and international private equity firms (sellers and buyers). In addition, Lennard regularly acts for founders and family-owned companies. He is often consulted for his expertise in governance arrangements between shareholders, private equity funds and co-investors, and in warranty & indemnity insurance and management participation plans.

Lennard is recognised as a leader in his field, as also confirmed by Legal 500 and Chambers. He was awarded “Best M&A Lawyer” by the Dutch M&A community in 2021, having been nominated in 2020 as well.

Lennard played an important role in establishing De Brauw’s Singapore office in 2012.

Lennard’s recent work includes advising:

• The Kloosterboer family on the sale of Kloosterboer Group to Lineage (Bay Grove)
• Advent on the sale of Unit4 to a consortium of TA Associates and Partners' Group
• BC partners on the sale of Pharmathen
• Triton on the acquisition of Bergman Clinics
• Parcom on most of its transactions in the past five years
• Gilde Buy-Out Partners on its investments in Edco, Eichholtz and Muon and several other transactions
• Nordian Capital on the sale of Bauwatch to Haniel
• T-Mobile Netherlands on the acquisition of Simpel.nl
• Unit4 on the sale of its Dutch domestic business to Exact (KKR portfolio)
• Summit Partners and the founder on the sale of Normec Group to Astorg
• The founders of Topicus on the sale to TSS / CSI
• The founders of Acture Group on the sale to IK Investments
• Triton on the acquisition of Royal Reesink from Gilde Buy Out
• The founder of 247Tailorsteel on the sale of a majority stake to Parcom Capital
• Fortino Capital on the acquisition of a majority stake in Odin Group from the founder
• Synthon Generics' management on the MIP with BC Partners
• Bain Capital on the acquisition of Bugaboo from the founders
• Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile Netherlands on the acquisition of Tele2 Netherlands