We advise business owners on the sale, leveraged buyout and financing of their company. From valuation through to closing, we structure robust transactions side by side with owners and investors.
We advise on every transaction that shapes the future of an SME: sale and succession, buyout, growth financing and strategic advisory.
Preparing, valuing and running the sale process: identifying counterparties, negotiating and securing the transaction through to closing.
Learn more →Structuring leveraged transactions — MBO, MBI, OBO and build-ups — in close coordination with funds and financial partners.
Learn more →Building the equity story, then sourcing and selecting the investors and financing best suited to your stage of development.
Learn more →Valuation, external growth, capital structuring: we bring clarity to strategic choices well ahead of any transaction.
Learn more →A mandate structured in three phases, from scoping the transaction through to closing — equally suited to a sale, an LBO or a fundraising.
Company review, valuation, and definition of the transaction strategy and its credible scenarios.
Business plan, information memorandum and data room — the reference documentation that secures the process.
Sourcing and approaching counterparties and investors, negotiation, structuring and closing the transaction.
Our partners and experts each bring over twenty years of experience advising business owners. Here are some of the transactions we have led — the role we played and the outcome, presented anonymously out of respect for confidentiality.
A team of entrepreneurs and financiers bound by twenty years of advisory work, having sat on both sides of the table.
30 years of experience advising SME and startup owners. He supports growth companies (fundraising, structuring) as well as owners in succession or buyout situations (sale, LBO, MBO), and acts as a part-time CFO. Graduate of École Centrale Paris (1992).
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Founder and CEO of several companies, he has lived through the investment process from both sides of the table. Specialist in transactions with a strong technological and industrial component. Graduate of Arts et Métiers and École Polytechnique.
LinkedIn ↗To secure every transaction, we mobilise a network of experts with exceptional track records, supporting our strategic, financial and sector analysis.
Former head of AT Kearney's Paris office. Contributed to the restructuring of the French banking landscape. Director of several banks and financial institutions. Centrale Paris & Wharton.
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Founding president of The Baconian Company, co-founder of the French chapter of SCIP. Co-author of a book awarded by the Financial Times. Taught at Berkeley, HEC and Fundação Dom Cabral.
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Co-founder and CEO of Illuin Technology. Co-director of the Digital Innovation Chair at CentraleSupélec and founder of the Paris Digital Lab. Graduate of École Centrale Paris.
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Honorary Director General of the UIC, honorary president of the AFFI, honorary director of SNCF. Mobility adviser to the UN and president of the Cercle des Nouveaux Mondes.
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Medical doctor, chief physician and director of medical affairs for several companies in oncology and cardiology. Deep experience of market-access processes.
LinkedIn ↗Ascensum helped us step back from day-to-day management and develop a genuine forward-looking vision; Ascensum now supports us in our international development.
Ascensum helped us better understand and showcase our strengths, which allowed us to find the right financial partner and accelerate our growth to over 100% per year.
Ascensum gave us a precise and clear understanding of our key growth drivers; we were able to manage our transaction far more calmly.
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