What does the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the culture of Japanese banking, and a €40 billion utility deal reveal about how collaboration actually works in high-stakes financial transactions? Alexander Nuyken, EY's Life Science Strategy and Transactions Leader for EMEIA, shares lessons from two decades of deal-making across continents. Subscribe for more episodes on collaboration under real-world pressure. Alexander Nuyken's career reads like a stress test for collaborative capacity: lawyer turned investment banker at Lehman Brothers, survivor of the 2008 financial crisis, absorbed into Japanese bank Nomura, then UBS, and finally Ernst & Young , each transition demanding rapid adaptation to radically different organizational cultures and collaborative norms. The conversation opens with a practical insight about what EY actually hired Nuyken t ...