Daniele Candiani

By linking my experience in debt advisory and mergers and acquisitions, I look forward to delivering flexible and innovative financing solutions to make an impact that matters with long-term target clients, as Lincoln does best.

Daniele co-heads Lincoln’s Capital Advisory Group in Europe, leveraging his 25 years of investment banking advisory experience both as a lender and an advisor to develop the debt advisory business for acquisitions by private equity and corporates, refinancing, recapitalizations, debt restructuring and special situations.

Daniele has arranged leveraged buyout (LBO) and corporate financing deals across the full spectrum of debt (bank financing, mezzanine debt, unitranche) and capital market products, leveraging on a very strong network of relationships with local and global finance providers (banks and alternative lenders), delivering complex and innovative solutions. He also has experience across a wide array of industries, particularly in industrials, consumer, information technology and business services.

Prior to joining Lincoln International, Daniele was Partner and Head of Debt & Capital Advisory Italy at Deloitte Financial Advisory. Prior to Deloitte, Daniele spent 11 years as a General Manager and Head of Italy at IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, where he focused on LBOs and corporate financing. Daniele has also worked in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and debt advisory at KPMG Corporate Finance, and previously he worked in the acquisition and leveraged finance team of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (merged into Commerzbank AG), SMBC (The Sumitomo Bank LTD) and at IntesaSanPaolo (Investment Banking Division). He began his career at Accenture, after serving as an Ensign in the Italian Navy.

Daniele earned a degree in corporate finance at SDA Bocconi, School of Management and a degree in business administration at University of Turin.