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France

Mergers & acquisitions

Transactions between €30 & €150 million

— 2025 —

Leading

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Cambon Partners

Michael Azencot | Laurent Azout | Romain Dehaussy | Guillaume Eymar | Jonathan Journo | Morgann Lesné | Nicolas Saint-Pierre | David Salabi | Guillaume Teboul

Investec Advisory

Nicolas Balon | Jean-Arthur Dattée | Kilian de Gourcuff | Michel Degryck | Alexandre Ebin | Thibault Laroche-Joubert | Guillaume ten Have

Rothschild Transaction R

Anthony Benichou | François Carlot | Pierpaolo Carpinelli | Guillaume Cauchoix | Elena Coluccelli-Guérin | Guillaume Dary | Philippe DE MONTREYNAUD | Fabien Lenoir | Romain Massiah | Jean-Christophe Quiniou

2

Adviso Partners

David Attali | Clément Barbot | Aurélien Bricout | Laurent Camilli | Guillaume Capelle | Michaël Chicheportiche | Gilles Coudon | Thomas Gaucher | Amanath Husain | Florent Obry | Bertrand Thimonier | Luc Vernhet

EdRCF Croissance

NEW
Alexandre Aron-Brunetiere | Pierre Boscher | Aurélien Bouvier | Julien Choppin | Guillaume Jaureguiberry | Axel Riquet | Benjamin Zayat

Financière De Courcelles

Pierre Bourahla | Christophe Brière | Jonathan Bursztyn | Matthieu de Baynast | Philippe Doré | Emmanuel Ducrot | Henri Mion | Michaël Petit | Guillaume Piette

Largillière Finance

Ludovic Balkany | Nathanaël Blanc | Paul BOUGNOUX | Thomas Bureau | Laurence d’Halleine | Gabriel Hainault | Nicolas Ibanez | Tanguy Mantelin | Shamir Razavhoussen

3

KPMG

Vongvilay Chantanau | François Engel | Quentin GOGA | Christian Jabre | Julian Parsons | Cyril Schlesser

Lincoln International

Arnaud Dudognon | Jean-René Hartpence | Dominique Lecendreux | Serge Palleau | François Rispoli | Ludovic Rodié | Matthieu Rosset | Guillaume Suizdak

Oaklins

Eric Félix-Faure | Hadrien Mollard | Raphaël Petit

PWC Corporate Finance

Adrien d’Alincourt | Quentin Duprez | Antoine Grenier | Geoffroy Pacault | Benjamin Ribault

Excellent

1

Crédit Agricole Midcap Advisors

Philippe Azevedo | Alain Crohem | Jean-Philippe Dayres | Caroline Dheilly | Ronan Lauzel | Olivier Malard | Laurent Pellerin | Guillaume Queyrat | Raphaël Rio

Pax Corporate Finance

Enrick Gane | Anthony Ginieis | Sébastien Leleu | Simon Morin | Laurent Mouflin | Tarik Saadallah | Adrien Tourres | Julien Truc

SG Corporate Finance - M&A

Raphaël Aubry-Marais | Christophe Audiguey | Julien BAZIN | Thibault De Limairac | Caroline Duclos | Marc Dunoyer | Eric Kohler | Caroline Lucas | Maxence Nodari | Stéphane Peterlini | Stephan Vannoote | Stéphanie Varo-Bonfils | Christophe Yzebe

Transactions & Cie

Frédéric Bos | Christophe de Backer | Diane De Montjamont | Matthieu Mora | Julien Moréel | François Paillier

Translink CF France

Tanguy du Chesnay | Marc Irisson | Lina Ismail | Mathieu Lemesle | Michel Payan | Serge Prager | Jacques-Henri Rième | Antoine Tanguy

2

Clipperton Finance

Thomas de Montille | Antoine Ganancia | Thomas Neveux | Thibaut Revel | Stéphane Valorge | Nicolas Von Bülow | Nikolas Westphal

Croissance Partenaires

William Alves | Quentin Darras

D&A

NEW
Alban Boitel | Jean-Marc Dayan | François Dubourg | Guillaume Hoppenot

Eurvad Finance

Charles Guigan | Jonathan Melloul

Scalene Partners

Samuel Assaraf | Simon Eischen | Anthony Gribe

Stifel

NEW
Olivier Beaudouin | Olivier Garnier | Guillaume Nathan | Philippe Patricot | GREG REVENU

UBS M&A Mid-Cap

NEW
Nicolas Henry | Jérôme Pin | Louis VERCKEN

3

Aya Partners

Virginie Lagrange | Agnès Marossero

Deloitte

Charles Bédier | Thomas Fischer

EY

Matthieu Carlier | Olivier Catonnet

Gimar & Co

François Barthelemy | Hubert Chevrinais | Stéphane Olmi

Sevenstones

Antoine Emery | Elodie Le Gendre | Amine Tagel-Din | Damien Vigneron

Highly recommended

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Avolta Partners

Philippe Dardier | David Laurent | Arthur Porré | Patrick Robin | Philippe Rodriguez | Frédéric Ventre

Bucéphale Finance

Julien Durand | Timothée Fontaine | David Orban

CFI France - Athema

Jean-Marc Teurquetil

Rochefort & Associés

Thomas Blondet | Guillaume de La Hosseraye | Ghislain de Murard | Enguerrand Rochefort

2

Clairfield International

Thierry Chetrit | Marie Dokchine | Stephano Ermacora | Bertrand Hermez

ETXE Finance

Luc Demarre | Romain Petit

Forvis Mazars

Matthieu Boyé | Frédéric Clairet | Stéphane Pithois | Henry Turquand d'Auzay

R&J Capital

Elisabeth Amiel

3

Allinvest

NEW
Vincent Behr | Claude Breuil | Vincent Déchin | Gwenaël Le Berre | Bertrand LE GALCHER BARON | Christophe Marchand | Marc O’Neill | Raphaël Rossello

Drake Star Partners

Grégory Bedrosian | Lawrence Giesen | Christophe Morvan | Julian Ostertag | Bruno Tourme

FL Finance & Developpement

Pierre de Sury | Florence Farriaux | Luc Farriaux

Wagram Corporate Finance

Sylvain Cotte | Paul Le Clerc | Mathieu Rouget | Christophe Tymen

Recommended

Chami & Co

Jean-Michel Chami | Gautier de Tilly | Eric Guetta | Alexandre Pfeiffer

CMW Corporate Finance

Hervé Le Roy

Verdier & Co

Jean-Philippe Verdier

Publication date : Dec 29, 2025

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