Croissance Partenaires

About Croissance partenaires

Set up in 2005, Croissance Partenaires is a French M&A and Corporate Finance boutique, specialized in small and medium-sized transactions (~30 to 150 million euros transaction value).

Croissance Partenaires works for a diverse client base in terms of industrial sectors, comprising mainly small and mid-sized family-owned companies, which we advise to prepare and perform their strategic financial operations, both domestic and cross-border and including mergers, acquisitions, disposal, equity or debt raising, leverage buy-out, restructuring and strategic advice.

Croissance Partenaires also services French and international large corporates for their small & mid-size transactions.

Croissance Partenaires advises every year around €200 to 500 million of combined transaction value, and is ranked among the most reputed small & mid-cap financial advisers on the French market, relying on a team of experienced professionals coming from investment banking and strategic advisory.

Croissance Partenaires is regularly ranked among the best investment banks in France for transactions between €150m and €500m (Ref.: France best investment banks - Upper-Mid Cap & Mid Cap)

Croissance Partenaires is also a founding member of the worldwide network Pandea Global M&A (https://pandeaglobal.com//)

Croissance Partenaires, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French group COGEP, one the top ten accountancy and consulting services group in France with ~€100m in sales, is approved Financial Investment Advisor (“Conseil en Investissements Financiers”) by the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers under the number E002120.

Our values

A long-lasting & Senior commitment

A real strategic insight, supported by experienced partners involved at every step of a transaction
A senior investment in a relationship in the run-up a structuring deal
A complete range of advisory services to assist our clients across all situations

A unique relationship

A high-quality, creative and tailor-made approach: we are dedicated to bringing added-value through a critical analysis and under-standing of the issues at stake of the assignments that are entrusted to us
A personalized transaction processes developed to address the specific issues involved in the envisaged transaction (whether strategic, family or financial issues)

Independence & Confidentiality

Independence is the cornerstone of an unbiased advice, free from conflicts of interest, and ensures absolute confidentiality and solutions tailored to our customers’ needs
Defending the interests of our clients is at the heart of our mission, whether in order to realize assets or to seize opportunities for long-term growth

Our services

Mergers & Acquisitions

Disposal projects: advising shareholders selling a majority interest or companies restructuring their capital, as part of bilateral negotiations or auction sale processes
Acquisition: identification of strategic investment opportunities or build-ups
Advising companies and institutional investors in the management of their portfolio of businesses (joint-venture, sale of non-strategic assets, spin-off, carve-out)

Strategic & financial advisory

Determination and implementation of internal and/or external growth strategies
Preparation of scenarios, financial modelling, sensitivity analysis and measure of shareholder value creation
Strategic diagnostic (Business Model SWOT)
Acquisition targets seeking
Takeover defence initiatives
Assistance of companies in their financial communication: marketing and financial reporting, Equity Story

Fund raising

Capital raising
Search and selection of financial and/or strategic investors
Acquisition and/or growth leveraged financing solutions: Bank (senior) and unsecured loans (Unitranche, Mezzanine)
Refinancing (high yield, convertibles, etc.)
Private "corporate" debt securities

Leverage transactions

Provide tailored solutions to private equity funds, historical shareholders or managers (LBO, MBO, OBO, etc.)
Negotiations with financial sponsor
Fund raising (equity and/or debt) and negotiations with financial institutions

Restructuring

Analysing historical financial performance and identifying strategic, operating and financial options
Drafting of business plan and cash-flow forecast
Balance sheet restructuration (debt & equity)
Shareholding structure renewal

We support shareholders and managers in their strategic and corporate finance operations, relying on our technical skills, our industry sector expertise and our deep understanding of the issues relative to these complex operations, in France and abroad

Our team

Our team, led by Pierre Miallot, is composed of about ten experienced professionals gather on-the-ground experiences gained through both industrial and financial exposure

The senior team is composed of:

Pierre MIALLOT

Founder & Managing Partner

Pierre is the founder and managing partner of Croissance Partenaires
Pierre has more than 25 years of experience in M&A and strategic advisory, both for large and medium-sized companies
He was successively founder of Miallot & Associés, Senior Partner at Mazars, and Managing Director of a subsidiary of Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild
Pierre graduated from ESSEC

Laurent Blaizac

Director

Laurent joined Croissance Partenaires as a Director in September 2019
Laurent has 28 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions through large banking corporations (HSBC, Crédit Suisse) and advisory firms (PwC, Deloitte) for customers in various industries in London, Zurich and Paris
He founded his own M&A and advisory boutique, Lymbia, in 2012, before joining Croissance Partenaires
Laurent holds degrees from EMLyon Business Schools and Université Paris Dauphine

François MENAGER

Director

François joined Croissance Partenaires in 2011
François brings a +10 years experience in M&A and coroporate strategy consulting
After a first experience in auditing at EY, François joined Croisance Partenaires in Paris in 2011, and was based in China from 2012 to 2017
François holds a Msc in Management from EMLYON Business School and a diploma in Chinese Language from Fudan University, Shangai
Besides being a French native speaker, François is also fluent in English, Mandarin and German