Ad Veken graduated in Business economics at the University of Amsterdam in December 1988. Directly hereafter he started working with Arthur Andersen where he joined as staff accountant. Effective 1 September 1992, he transferred within Arthur Andersen to the Corporate Finance practice, where he specialized in valuation and due diligence investigations. He was promoted partner in September 1999.
Following the merger of the Dutch Andersen organization with Deloitte, Ad has worked for Deloitte Transaction Services since June 2002.
Ad practices in all fields of (inter)national Mergers and Acquisitions, with a focus on due diligence, (re)structuring, reorganizations and valuation. His clients are (multinational) Private Equity houses.
Major transactions he has been involved in over the past number of years are:
De-listings:
- VendexKBB by KKR
- Nedschroef by Gilde
- Grolsch by SAB Miller
- Nedcon by Voest Alpine
Acquisition of:
- Radio 538 by RTL
- IMCD by ABN AMRO Participaties
- Van Gansewinkel by AVR
- Van Lent by Egeria
- Brabant Alucast International by Janivo
- Van Hessen by Janivo
- SBS by Talpa and Sanoma
- Buienrader by RTL
- Maitre André by Rabo Private Equity
- Norit by Pentair
- United Dutch Breweries by Egeria
- Claymount by ABN AMRO Participaties
Vendor due diligence on:
- BMC, sold to Halder
- HEMA, sold by Maxeda to Lion Capital
- Attema, sold by TBI to ABN AMRO Participaties
- Geveke Werktuigbouw, sold by Halder to ABN AMRO Participaties
- Van Lent, sodl by Egeria to LVMH
- Alrec, sold to Friesland Bank
- Welzorg, sold to Louwman Groep
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