Lead Investment

Partner of fast-growing European companies, primarily in Digital, Healthcare, and opportunistically in BtoB services, with investments starting at €7m and up to €40m.

Buy-out and growth capital in majority or lead & co-lead minority positions.

Strong strategic and operational support in order to systematize buy & build acquisitions and accelerate international development.

Differentiating elements

Sectoral approach and added value

In-depth sectoral knowledge, monitoring of market developments and players

College of experts recognized in investment universes

Prior identification of buy and build acquisitions in France and abroad

Strategic support

Strong reactivity and involvement in the definition and implementation of the strategic plan

Buy & build and systematic internationalization of the portfolio

Value creation mainly linked to growth and international development

Investment team

More than 25 years of joint work on the Small & Lower-Mid Cap segment for the two co-heads

Local approach team members located in Paris and Lyon

Proximity, pragmatism, and reactivity in decision-making

Investment team

Bertrand Fesneau

Partner, Head of Lead Investment

Bertrand joined Essling Capital in 2018 after serving as Managing Director at Turenne Capital. In 2004, he co-founded CM-CIC LBO Partners and served as Chairman until 2014. Bertrand began his career in 1990 at 3i Group, where he was Deputy Managing Director from 1997 to 2003, in charge of LBO and Capital Development activities.

Bertrand graduated from ESSEC and from INSEAD.

Bertrand Fesneau

Partner, Head of Lead Investment

Rémi Matuchansky

Partner, Co-Head of Lead Investment

Rémi joined Essling Capital in 2018. Between 2004 and 2016, Rémi co-founded CM-CIC LBO Partners, where he served as Managing Director and then Chairman. From 1999 to 2001, he was COO of Tordjman Métal, part of the industrial group La Toulousaine, where he was in charge of finance. He started his career in 1994 at 3i Group.

Rémi graduated from ESCP-EAP.

Rémi Matuchansky

Partner, Co-Head of Lead Investment

Vincent Maignaut

Investment Director

Vincent joined Essling Capital in 2018 after serving as Director and then as Partner at Turenne Capital, in charge of the Lyon office. Vincent started his career at Eurazeo and Rothschild & Cie, before joining Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in 2004, then co-founding Altrix, an M&A advisory firm in 2009.

Vincent holds a master’s degree from Montpellier Business School.

Vincent Maignaut

Investment Director

Marjolaine Pham

Senior Associate

Marjolaine joined Essling Capital in 2022. From 2020 to 2022, she worked at Atlantic Entrepreneur Fund, after an initial Private Equity experience at Unigrains where she started in 2018.

Marjolaine graduated from NEOMA Business School.

Marjolaine Pham

Senior Associate

Grace Nasri

Senior Associate

Grace joined Essling Capital in 2022. From 2018 to 2022, she was part of the Transaction Services department of PwC (Deals Graduate program), after an initial Private Equity experience at Bee-Up Capital.

Grace graduated from Grenoble Ecole de Management et from Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

Grace Nasri

Senior Associate

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