Speakers 2011
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Thierry BaudonThierry has led the Mid Europa team since its inception in 1999. Previously, he headed the International Finance Division of the SUEZ Group. He received a M.Sc. degree in Engineering from the Paris Institute of Technology, an A.M.P. from INSEAD and an M.A. in Economics & Finance from the Paris-Sorbonne University.
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Karsten Langer
Thomas Forschbach
Jean-Luc Allavena
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Jean-Baptiste Wautier
David Willems
Stanislaw Knaflewski
Joseph Cohen Prior to joining TCP, Joseph spent 20 years at Lehman Brothers, of which 13 years at Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking where he was the European Co-Head. He was also a member of the Lehman Brothers’ Investment Management Division’s European Operating Committee
Andrew joined ECP in May 2011 from Amundi Private Equity Funds where he was the Chief Investment Officer of the Kantara
Fund a €150m buy out and expansion capital fund investing in North Africa. Prior to working in private equity, he worked as
a management consultant for Coopers & Lybrand in London.
Vincent Gombault Vincent serves as a private equity portfolio manager. He joined the firm in 1998 and has developed and managed the primary, early secondary, and secondary funds of funds business. He joined the Industrial Investment Department at the AXA Group in 1991. He has worked with Société Générale and was the Head or Investment Manager of M&A.
Bruno Bertrand Bruno joined Baker & McKenzie SCP in 2008 where he manages the Private Equity team. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the European Private Equity Practice Group. He advises private equity funds, funds of fundsand sovereign wealth funds for their private equity transactions, including leverage buyouts and secondaries. He also advises themon fund formation.
Nick Morandini Nick focuses on secondary and co-investment transactions for Pantheon. Previously, Nik was a member of the London-based
European M&A team of UBS Investment Bank where he primarily worked on M&A and corporate finance mandates for mid to
large cap clients. He began his career with Société Générale.
Christiaan de Lint Christiaan is a partner and co-founder of Headway Capital.Prior to co-founding Headway in early 2004, he was part of the investment team at Coller Capital, one of the largest players in the private equity secondaries market where he worked
since early 1999.
Eric Cartier-Millon Eric is a partner in the Banking & Finance Department of Gide Loyrette Nouel. He specializes in structured finance and project
finance.
Adrian is a partner in the banking & finance department of Allen & Overy. He has international experience advising on a wide
spectrum of financing transactions from acquisition and structured finance through the corporate borrowings, in addition toother general banking matters.
Fabrice CroppiFabrice joined Natixis in 2005 to set up the Financial Engineering department within Structured Finance. He started his career in the ECM department at Société Générale, and was then appointed economic advisor to the French Minister in charge of strategic planning. Then, he was deputy editor of The European.
Louis Huetz Louis joined the Banca Leonardo Group in October 2009 as a Managing Director. Before joining Leonardo, he spent 6 years at Aforge Finance as a Managing Director in the M&A division. Louis has advised on many transactions involving investment funds, family-owned companies and major international groups.
José Maria Munoz Jose Maria is founder and managing partner of MCH Private Equity (MCH Iberian Capital Fund I, II and III, with total funds under management over 500 million Euros). At the firm, he is responsible for investments in the Manufacturing and Retail sectors. He is a director of the board of several companies, among them, Talgo, Azulev,IQAP and Qualytel.
Imed Ben Romdhane Imed joined Natixis in 2005 to set up the Financial Engineering department within Structured Finance. He began his career at an international law firm, followed by 12 years at Crédit Lyonnais, later Calyon, from 1992 to 2004, where he was head of structuring then managing director of the Financial Engineering department.
Mark co-manages the Corporate Transactional Department of the Franklin law firm. Franklin is an independent Paris-based business law firm. He is a qualified US and French lawyer and he has spent the past 22 years practicing French law in Paris. He acts for private equity houses as well as a variety of publicly quoted and private corporations, financial institutions and funds on domestic and cross-border transactions.
Lionel ZinsouFrom 1997 to 2008, Lionel was a general partner at Rothschild Investment Bank. In the civil service he had been a lecturer in Economics in Paris University and a member of the Prime Minister’s office. Beforehand, he was a financial controller and a division CEO of Danone. He is an alumni of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences Po and graduated in Economics.
John is a Managing Director and heads Investment Management Europe at Capital Dynamics. He has over 20 years of experience evaluating, selecting and monitoring private equity fund investments in Europe, the US and emerging markets.
Charles Soulignac Charles, Founder and Managing Partner of Fondinvest Capital, started in 1993 the fund-of-funds business (primary and secondary). He also has previous experience in industry (Potain), consultancy (Maynard) and finance (Bred). He has been a member of the EVCA board of directors and investor relations committee.
Christopher Bödtker Christopher is the Managing Partner, Chairman of Investment Committee, and Country Partner for the Nordic Region at Akina Ltd. In May 2010, Christopher and his partners created the fully independent Akina through buying out Lombard Odier’s stake in the business. He is responsible for overseeing the firm’s investments in the Nordic Region.
Jean-Michel Severino Jean-Michel is the Managing Partner of « Investisseurs et Partenaires Conseil », General Inspector of Finances, at the French Ministry of Finances. He is the former Director of France’s international development agency. He was appointed in 2001 for a three-year term, renewed in 2004 and 2007. He was previously Director in charge of international development at the French
Ministry of Cooperation.
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Lionel ZinsouTRACK II:LBO & MANAGEMENT (in French)
Denis VidalincIn December 2009 Denis took responsibility of the CIC Acquisition Finance Group after 5 years as a transactor in the large cap team. He originated and arranged leveraged transactions both with private equity firms and corporate.
Hervé CouffinGraduated of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines, Hervé was Senior Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of PAI. In 2005, he co-founded Callisto, which is dedicated to offer financial advice to management teams in LBO transactions. In addition, he is currently a non Executive Director on the Board of several companies.
Martin Naquet-Radiguet Martin is a partner at PwC, head of the Transaction Services department in France. Martin is focused on private equity. Over the past 14 years he has advised investors on more than 240 deals, either sell-side or buyside. Martin joined PwC in 1991; he holds a degree in business administration from ESCP (Paris).
Pascal Stefani Pascal joined Advent in 1998 and has been managing the Paris office since October 2007. Pascal has led or co-led Advent’s investments in Loxam S.A. , MC International S.A., BCS S.A., Sportfive S.A., Stokomani and Sophis. Prior to Advent, he spent 8 years with Financière Saint Dominique, the private equity arm of Natexis where he worked on management buyouts and expansion. Pascal has a degree in business administration from HEC (Paris).
Axel Rebaudières Axel has specialized in the last 10 years in transactions, advising Private Equity houses and international companies.Recent PE deal experience includes Sandro- Maje, Penelope, Histoire d’Or, MW Brands, Cerba European Lab, Cylande, Proclif. He leads the Private Equity Group at KPMG in France.
Nicolas Brumelot Nicolas is the Deputy CEO and CFO of Odigeo (online travel group formed by a combination of Go Voyages, eDreams, Opodo and Travellink) and the co-founder and co-CEO of Go Voyages. Prior to joining Go Voyages, he assumed finance positions in companies such as Avanquest Software and Look Voyages.
Xavier MorenoXavier co-founded Astorg Partners in 1998, after heading the Suez private equity teams for seven years. Before that, he spent 6
years at Sanofi, as CEO of an operational division and member of the Executive Committee. Xavier started his professional life in 1976 at the French Treasury, where he held several senior positions including the financing and monitoring of state-owned
institutional companies.
Anne-Valérie Attias-AssoulineAnne-Valérie is a Tax lawyer with Landwell & Associés. She has over 10 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, group restructuring, LBO and tax planning for cross-border transactions.
Olivier Boyadjian Olivier heads up H.I.G.’s team in France. Prior to joining H.I.G., Olivier was in charge of the investment team at CDC Capital
Investissement. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in France, where he notably
led a significant number of financings for private equity transactions.
Michel David Michel has 15 years experience in executive search. He has developed expertise in search assignments for private equity funds (LBO, LBI processes…) and in C-levels direct approach.
Arnaud Bouyer Arnaud joined Morgan Stanley in early 2000 as an Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department, with a focus on restructuring. He has worked in New York, London and Paris on a wide range of assignments across sectors, including corporate divestitures and carve-outs, outsourcing, or joint ventures. Since March 2004, he has been responsible for financial sponsors coverage in France and on a pan-European basis.
Brice de la MorandièrePanel 4: Management Package: Restructuring the Deal and Rebuilding Trust
Olivier DuhaOlivier began his career in 1992 at LEK Consulting. He has always worked in international environment of leading groups in their respective sectors. In 1998, he decided to join the American consulting group Bain & Company. He integrated the «E-business practice» and was involved in Internet development strategy missions for large industrial groups. He is also a board member of the managers’ association Croissance +.
Lionel Scotto Founding Partner at French law firm Scotto & Associés, Lionel has more than 15 years of experience in private equity. Expert in
LBO and venture capital, he is specialized in advising management teams. For the past 2 years, he has been involved in the
most important LBO deals of the French market: Picard/Lion Capital, Cegelec/Vinci, TDF, Alcan EP, SPIE and more recently
Converteam/GE.
Eric DelormeEric was one of the Founding Partners of PAI. He co-founded Callisto, financial advisor to management teams. Callisto was involved in more than 40 transactions since its inception early 2005. It offers independent financial advice to management
teams in buy-out transactions.
Panel 5: Corporate Growth & Debt Management under LBO: Facing Underperformance
Bertrand PiensBertrand joined Fontenay Managers in 2005 and serve as president since 2006. Before FM, he has been a managing director of Dirigeants & Investisseurs. He previously held several CEO positions in the financial sector (CCCM-GRIFFIN), IT sector (CIS), and industry (AFIROC). He is graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), IEP-Paris, and holds an executive Master in Business Administration from HEC.
Olivier Kress Olivier has significant experience in international employment law and is completely fluent in English and Italian. He holds a Master in Private Law and a post-graduate degree in Corporate Legal Advice. He advises French and international corporations
Thomas Mulliez
Charles Gorins
Michel is well known for his practical expertise in the prevention and settlement of crisis situations within troubled companies, leading mainly large-scale operations for first-rank French and international groups. He also advises clients on their external growth and transfer operations and is involved in strategic litigation related to corporate law.
Bertrand PivinBertrand joined Apax Partners in 1993. He specializes in buy-outs, in particular in Tech & Telecom. He has dual experience in the telecom and private equity industry. He started his career as an R&D Engineer with Alcatel Group in France and was promoted to Project Director at Alcatel Network Systems in the USA.
Philippe Nataf Philippe has more than 15 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, he was head of the mergers
and acquisitions division of the Information, Communication & Entertainment (ICE) at KPMG Corporate Finance. Earlier, he worked for Regent Associates, as managing director and member of the firm’s executive committee.
Sophie Blégent-DelapilleSophie is an M&A Tax Partner in charge of the French corporate tax practice of Deloitte. Her practice focuses on LBO transactions for Private Equity Houses, for which she advises on the due diligence phase, acquisition and exit structures, refinancing and the implications of the Management’s investment on the overall structure. She also advises French multinational
groups on their international strategies.
Vincent Chriqui
Fernando Goni
Jean Louis Detry
Pascal Bonnet
Géraud de Riberolles
François Faure François is specialized in financial restructuring and M&A. He started his career at the Ministry of Industry before moving in the financial sector in which he worked since 1987. After working at Credit National then Banque Indosuez, he managed the M&A activities of Wasserstein Perella in Paris, then the Deutsche Bank in London, before creating the Parisian office of Hoolihan Lokey, that he ran from 2003 to 2010. He has joined AlixPartners in 2010.
Lise Nobre Lise joined BCP in 2009 with a 23-year experience in Private Equity, coming from PAI partners, of which she was a Partner, Head of the Capital Goods Group and Member of the Executive Committee until 2008. From 1986 to 1996, she has been in charge of mid-size investments, and then, after 4 years in the Financial Team, became responsible of buyouts on industrial companies in Europe. She graduated from HEC in 1986.
Laurent Petizon Laurent is graduated from Supélec Paris and has an MBA from HEC. He started his career in Thales before joining A.T. Kearney in the USA and then in France as Vice President. At AlixPartners, Laurent works on restructuring situations and strategic and operative improvement for healthy actors of the Automobile sector. He also works on energy and hightech
industries sectors.
Sébastien Desillons Sébastien graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines de Paris in 2004. A former trainee at Goldman
Sachs, he joined PSA Peugeot-Citroen and then Total. He was appointed manager at the French governmental committee on
financial and industrial restructuring in September 2010.
Jean-Louis GrevetJean-Louis has more than 20 years of experience in private equity and special situations in France (Paribas, Bankers Trust, Butler Capital). In 2007, he founded Perceva Capital, a private equity firm investing in special situations in France. He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris and M.I.T. (M. Sc), and teaches turnaround at HEC.
Marc Santoni Marc, with an MBA ISA HEC, is a partner in the law firm SCP Santoni & Associés, which he founded 18 years ago. The firm is specialized in bankruptcy procedures and in legal advice to investment funds. He was a leading advisor in the Eurotunnel case.
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Matthieu Guillemin Mathieu is responsible for Oaktree’s French operations. Prior to joining Oaktree in 2007, he spent 8 years at Montagu Private Equity, most recently as a Director/Partner responsible for sourcing, leading and monitoring transactions. Prior experience includes work at Apax Partners & Cie in Paris and Banque Indosuez in London.
Vincent Danjoux Vincent, a General Partner, runs the Debt Advisory and Restructuring practice in Paris while coordinating the European Debt Advisory practice.
Denis Van den Bulke Denis is managing partner since 2005 of a leading Luxembourg law firm specialized in corporate finance and tax. He has more
than 20 years of international finance practice gained as UN financial expert, executive director at ING Luxembourg and partner
of US law firm Dorsey & Whiney. He is a former Director of the Luxembourg Investment Fund Association (ALFI).
Filippo Troisi Filippo focuses on M&A, equity offerings and JV transactions. In 2010, he has been awarded as Best Lawyer of the Year by
TopLegal. He graduated with honours at the University of Naples and obtained an LL.M. degree at the New York University. He is admitted to both the New York Bar and the Italian Bar
Roberto Pisa Since 2006, Roberto has been leading some key initiatives to improve operations in a number of portfolio companies. He was previously Chief Restructuring Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee of the FIAT Group. Previous positions include board member of Pirelli Cable & Systems, and several positions at General Electric in the US including President and CEO of GE Lighting systems.
Fabrice I. Dumontheil Fabrice has over 20 years experience in senior financial management roles. Prior to joining Sun European Partners, he served since 2003 as CFO and CIO for Brake France SAS, a food service distribution company, where he successfully executed a large turnaround leading to the company’s sale. He also served in senior finance positions.
François HiriartWith an engineer formation, François started his career in 1978 in oil exploration at Schlumberger and Shell. Back in France,
he became COO in Rhône-Poulenc and Sun Chemical. He joined Legrand as International Director, managing all the foreign
subsidiaries, then Valeo as Vice President of the Cleaning Systems division. He is recruited in 2007 by BC Partners to recover
Baxi France.
Yahya DaraaouiYahya has over 20 years of professional experience in protecting and increasing drastically shareholders value. He specialized in stabilizing stressed companies, performing corporate, BU turnaround and profit/cash improvement programs. Prior to joining Alix- Partners, he was the Managing Director of A.T. Kearney’s Paris Office. Before that, he was a Partner and Vice President in the Milan office of Bain & Co. He holds a degree from HEC in marketing and industrial economics. He speaks English, French and Italian fluently.
Olivier Marion Olivier is the partner leading the PwC Business Recovery Services group in France. Olivier and his team have been
involved on most of the key French restructuring cases over the past years. Their area of expertise encompasses the performance of IBRs, the development of financial restructuring options and plans in out-of-court & in court cases, the assistance to investors interested in distress situations.
Adriano Bianchi Adriano leads A&M Italian practice. He brings more than 30 years of senior business experience as top manager (CEO, CFO and Managing Director) of multinational industrial and service corporations and financial institutions. He received a bachelor’s
degree in business administration, from Bocconi University in Milan and a master’s degree in international finance, from NYU
Stern School of Business.
Julian Harris Jean joined Oaktree in 2007 in the context of an effort to build senior Oaktree’s capabilities for enhancing the management of
its portfolio companies. Prior to joining Oaktree, he worked in the Paris office of the Boston Consulting Group. Before that, he spent 8 years working for tier-one suppliers to the automotive industry in France, the UK and the US. He held various managerial roles in operations and product development.
Jean Rollier Julian began his banking career in 1981 with Banque Sudameris in Paris specializing in Latin American restructurings. He
joined Crédit Agricole in 1985 and has since 1992 been largely specialized in distressed asset management including restructuring and workouts, distressed asset investing and legacy asset management.
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Roberto Pisa