We create value and support our customers “for a long time, for a long time”
Thanks to its collective intelligence and its networks in France and abroad, FDC supports its clients in the conception and execution of their external growth strategy:
- Acquisition of innovative companies
- Acquisition of companies to penetrate adjacent markets or new geographies and / or execute an integration strategy
- Merger / industrial partnership
- Execution of buy-and-build strategies across multiple locations for midcap companies held by investment firms
Specializing in the structuring of strategic and complex transactions, the FDC team is involved in the entire acquisition process until closing of the transaction (identification and analysis of opportunities, strategic advice, strategy approach and initial contacts, relations with the target and its stakeholders, financial and operational valuation, preparation of offers and negotiations, coordination of due diligences, signing) in close partnership with decision-makers and their teams.
- Acquisition of start-ups, SMEs and mid-caps
- Acquisition of subsidiaries of large groups
- Acquisition of interests held by institutional investors
Specialist in the structuring of strategic and complex transaction, FDC’s team is involved in the entire acquisition process (opportunity analysis, strategic advice, approach strategy and contact, relationship with the target and its stakeholders, valuation, preparation of offers and negotiations, closing).
Backed by its sector knowledge, a relationship of trust with financial sponsors and privileged access to managers of portfolio companies, FDC also advises on secondary LBOs.
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Specialized in financial advice during Mergers and Acquisitions operations, our employees and senior advisory will guarantee you tailor-made financial support.
Our experts support you in all your business acquisition, fundraising and financing advisory projects.
Augmented M&A®
Consequently, FDC considers each client and each situation with a 360° strategic, financial and organizational approach, ahead and/or after an M&A transaction.
Debt advisory
Thanks to its recognized expertise in capital structuring and the implementation of financing solutions, FDC can design tailor-made structures responding to strategic issues and risk profiles specific to each company.
Sale
Our creativity and agility fuelled by our many transactions allow us to recommend and then execute, for our clients, unique and tailor-made solutions in line with their strategic, industrial and financial objectives.
Fund-raising
In line with its entrepreneurial and innovative culture, FDC supports the founders of young, promising growth companies in their fundraising.
Advisory
Preparing businesses for sale, Financing advisory, Independent valuations and financial modelling...