The Nordic Compounder Playbook: How Lagercrantz Bought 90 Companies and Never Sold One
Jörgen Wigh, CEO of Lagercrantz Group
Lagercrantz Group targets a 10% deal failure rate. On purpose. "That's very un-American to say that, but there needs to be a failure rate," says CEO Jörgen Wigh, who runs 85 companies with about 22 people at headquarters.
Part 2 is the operating system behind that number. Jörgen walks through deal governance (a go/no-go before the bid, another before the LOI, board sign-off before close) and why the person who sources a deal keeps it afterward, with no handover. He also explains why the compounder model clusters in the Nordics, why a 30-page SPA beats a…
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