MeridianCrest
The Firm

Built by senior dealmakers,
for one corridor.

Meridian Crest Advisory is a Frankfurt–Hong Kong transaction advisory boutique founded in 2025 Q2 by four senior practitioners with combined 78 years of cross-border experience at Goldman Sachs, Lazard, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, and Bain & Company.

Origin

A different model for cross-border advisory.

Meridian Crest Advisory was founded in 2025 by four practitioners who had worked together informally on cross-border transactions for nearly a decade. Henrik Bergmann and Stefan Knaus had built reputations in Frankfurt for advising German Mittelstand sellers and DACH-based sponsors on transactions where the eventual buyer was Asian — at KPMG and Lazard respectively. Leo Tanaka and Yejin Park, in Hong Kong, had been retained on the buy side of several of those processes — at Morgan Stanley and Bain & Company.

The four had collaborated enough times to recognize the recurring pattern: the cross-border DACH–Greater China corridor was being served, but in pieces, by firms whose primary practices lay elsewhere. The firm was built to do that one thing well.

The model is intentionally narrow. Two offices, four partners, five services. Every engagement is partner-led on both sides of the corridor. We do not maintain a U.S. presence. We do not advise on IPOs or post-merger integration. We do not service deals outside the DACH–Greater China corridor unless an existing client asks us to. The constraint is the product.

We do not publish client names, deal values, or transaction counts. References available on request, under NDA.

  • 0Founding partners
  • 0Combined prior-firm years
  • 0Languages spoken across the team
  • 0Offices · Frankfurt (HQ) · Hong Kong

Founded 2025 Q2. Prior-firm experience reflects partners' tenure at Goldman, Lazard, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, and Bain & Co.

What we stand for

Four operating commitments.

  • 01

    Two-office partnership

    Every engagement runs through Frankfurt and Hong Kong simultaneously. The other side of the corridor is staffed from day one — not bolted on after.

  • 02

    Senior-only execution

    Only the four founding partners do client work. There are no junior pyramids and no handoffs once an engagement begins.

  • 03

    One corridor, total focus

    DACH ↔ Greater China is the only deal flow we accept. We do not service intra-DACH or intra-Asia transactions, and we do not maintain a U.S. presence.

  • 04

    Discretion as a discipline

    We do not publish client names, deal values, or transaction counts. References available on request, under NDA.

Founders

Senior practitioners who built the firm.

Offices

Where we work.

  • FrankfurtHQ

    Taunusanlage 18

    60325 Frankfurt am Main

    Germany

    +49 69 9999 0140

    Established 2025

  • Hong Kong

    One IFC, Level 36

    1 Harbour View Street

    Central, Hong Kong

    +852 3018 0140

    Established 2025

Stewardship

How we operate as a firm.

  • Conflicts policy

    A conflicts memo is circulated to every deal team and shared with the client at engagement start. We decline mandates where a current relationship would compromise our work.

  • Independence

    Meridian Crest does not maintain an audit practice and does not invest its own capital in transactions it advises on. We do not maintain a U.S. presence and do not act as bookrunner on listings.

  • Confidentiality

    We do not publish client names, deal values, or transaction counts. Engagement references are available on request, under NDA. Our working assumption is that public disclosure is the exception, not the default.

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