Our Team

After a 20-Year career at Banque Indosuez and Crédit Agricole Group that started in South Korea, Philippe joined Arjil Investment Bank in 2011, then Financière de Courcelles in 2015. He manages an M&A advisory business, serving inter-alia Aero – Space – Defence – Eelectronic clients. Amon others, Philippe advised the Hutchinson group, TAT – Sabena technics group, Schneider Electric as well as numerous family-owned corporates in acquisitition, sale, tender offer and share capital increase deals. Philippe graduated as a Civil enginner from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Noël started his career in several ministerial cabinets. He assisted Joël Le Theule, the former French Minister of Transports and Minister of Defence 1978 1980. He then advised Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister, on industrial affairs 1986 1987. He was Chief Executive at Usinor and Matra between 1981 and 1998 before becoming CEO of Airbus and co CEO of EADS. Noël joined FDC in October 2015 after serving as a Partner and a member of the executive committee at the Arjil Altium investment bank. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Mines Paris Tech.

Michael joined FDC in 2012 from Mandel Partners, the French M&A activity of Banque Espirito Santo et de la Vénétie where he was director. He began his career in auditing large corporates at Mazars and then joined Deloitte’s M&A Transaction Services department spending 5 years advising private equity and corporates investors in their financial due diligence process and valuation. Michael graduated from EDHEC business school in 2004 and also holds the diploma of French charter accounts (DEC).

Matthieu de BAYNAST is an operational, he spent most of his career supporting entrepreneurs in their development and growth projects in France and abroad. He has led more than 100 M&A transactions in 35 countries over the past 10 years. Former CEO of a large FM group of 3Bns €, Matthieu decided in May 2020 to acquire FDC and make his operational experience available to clients and provide them with an overall vision of the strategic, financial and organizational, the Augmented M&A®. He graduated from Montpellier Business School and from Le Havre University in Mathematics and Physics.

Ambroise join FDC in 2015. He began his career in M&A at L’Epervier Corporate Finance. He also had experiences in Private Equity at Malakoff Médéric and in financial controlling at Nagra - Kudelski Group in San Francisco. He is specialised in the Education sector, advising a large number of transactions: sale of IPESUP, acquisition of INSEEC U. by Cinven, advise of emlyon Management… Ambroise graduated from Aix-Marseille University and Paris-Dauphine University.

Veronique joined FDC in 1993. With more than 20 years of experience in Mergers & Acquisitions and some thirty completed transactions, she is particularly focused and experienced in cross border transactions. Veronique has been involved in the development of our international partners’ network for many years and is head of Global M&A Partners’ Corporate Development.

Julien has 4 years of experience in Corporate Finance. Before joining us he was working in Frankfurt for the German M&A mid-cap team of Oddo-BHF and then as an Analyst in Transaction Services for BDO. Since his arrival in 2017, Julien has advised on a wide range of transactions including sales, acquisitions, fundraisings, etc. He also advised industrial groups on their financial and investment strategy. In his current role, he performs valuation and complex financial modeling. He is also in charge of preparing valuation books, information memoranda, prospection documents etc. Julien graduated from Grenoble Business School.

Julien is a former intern of FDC, that's what decided him to join us in 2020 at the Analyst position. Before that, he started his career in the Financial Advising department of AMP Banking Group (Sydney, Australia) and then within the Strategy department of Canal+ Group. Julien is particularly involved in the Business Services and TMT deals. He is graduated from emlyon business school.

Before joining FDC in 2020, Jérôme started his career at Indosuez bank as a financial analyst before joining the Mc Kinsey consulting company as a consultant. Then he joined the Lyonnaise des Eaux Group in 1982, which became Suez then Engie, where he was the CEO of Degrémont, the international leader in water treatment, Managing Director of the construction group GTM, now Vinci, CEO of the Sita group specializing in water treatment collection and treatment of waste before creating and managing the energy services branch of the Engie Group - turnover 16 billion and 100,000 people in 2017. Member of the executive committee of Engie, he held several administrator positions. Jérôme is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, and holds a DES in economics and an MBA from Insead.

Hugo started his career in M&A at MBA Capital before joining Financière de Courcelles in 2019 as a trainee. After his end-of-studies internship, he decided to stay and occupies the position of analyst. Hugo is in particular involved in transactions in the chemicals, education, industrial, insurance brokerage and TMT sectors. Hugo graduated from emlyon Business School.

Henri started his career in Project Finance in 1986 at CCF and then Crédit Lyonnais. Then he joined Clinvest in 1991 for Private Equity and M&A. From 2002 to 2004, Henri was Director of M&A at CLSA in Hong-Kong. In 2005, Henri joined SocGen Mid-Cap Investment Banking, where he completed many transactions while managing and leading the expansion of the M&A team at the same time. Henri integrated FDC team in 2017 to develop the BtoB Services practice. Henri has been involved in various sell- and buy-side operations, in France and worldwide, both on listed and private companies, with financial or industrial clients in almost every business segment. He graduated from ESSEC.

Guillaume is Managing Partner and brings more than 15 years' experience in investment banking. He joined FDC in 2020 after seven years with goetzpartners Corporate Finance where he was a Managing Director and co-Head of France. After successful experiences in equity investments (Sanwa International) and in operational consulting (EY former Arthur Andersen) in London and in Paris, Guillaume moved to investment banking in 2006 and roles with GCA Altium and DC Advisory. He has advised on many midcap transactions for both international corporates and private equity houses, as well as family-owned companies. Throughout his career, Guillaume has developed strong expertise in industrials and business services. A CFA-Charterholder, he has a dual French and English academic background in strategy and law with a post-graduate in International Business.

Florian started his career in private equity, first at XAnge Private Equity (Siparex) then at Amundi. After this experience, he joined the Arjil-Altium investment bank (formerly Apax Partners). Florian integrated FDC team in 2015, where he completed several transactions, mainly in the aerospace & defense sector. He worked on a variety of situations including sales, acquisitions, takeover bids and fundraising, in France and worldwide, with both industrial and financial clients. Florian is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and graduated from Toulouse Business School and ESEC Barcelona.

Emmanuel joined FDC in 2011 after spending six years at IXIS CIB, now Natixis, in Paris to develop Corporate Finance activities in the energy & infrastructure sector. Previously, he had spent eight years in London working in Anglo-Saxon investment banks, including Deutsche Bank and ING Barings, where he also advised energy and utility companies across Europe. Emmanuel has worked on a wide array of mandates spanning M&A, corporate reorganization and financing, in particular in the decentralized power generation, especially from renewable energy sources, in the energy distribution and retail, in the maritime transportation & services. Since early 2019, an increasing share of the advisory assignments he has worked on have either a strong technology or digital angle. He is a board member of Global M&A Partners, an international network of independent financial advisory firms which FDC co- founded. Emmanuel graduated from ESSEC Business School.

Antoine joined FDC in 2017. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Oaklins before joining Natixis Partners Antoine has been in particular involved in transactions in the education, tech, business services and infrastructure sectors. Antoine graduated from the Toulouse Business School.

Prior joining FDC in 2020 as Managing Partner Asia, Sebastien spent 9 years in Thailand as CEO of Alcatel-Lucent then Nokia, delivering massive growth in variety of sectors. He was also director of Alcatel Shanghai Bell JV (Hong Kong Branch) and handled structured finance deals in excess of 500M€. Sebastien held VP roles in Asia and in Alcatel in France and was awarded on serial M&A deals (Nortel, Lucent,...). Sebastien graduated from Paris-Saclay University and Laval University in Canada.