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Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet & Cie SA is today one of Switzerland’s largest private banks, and the leading independent asset management specialist in Europe, with CHF 436 billion (EUR 402 billion) in assets under management and custody at December 2015. Pictet & Cie SA is a partnership owned and managed by eight general partners with unlimited liability for the bank’s commitments. The Pictet Group, based in Geneva, employs more than 3,900 staff. The group has offices in the following financial centres: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Basel, Dubai, Florence, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Lausanne, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Montreal, Nassau, Osaka, Paris, Rome, Singapore, Taipei, Turin, Tokyo, Verona and Zurich.
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Orrick is a leading global law firm with a particular focus on serving companies in the technology, energy and financial sectors. We are recognized worldwide for delivering the highest-quality, commercially-oriented legal advice and for our culture of innovation and collaboration. Founded in San Francisco a century and a half ago, Orrick today is named by Law360 as one of the “Global 20” leading firms. Our platform offers clients a distinctive combination of local insight and global reach across 25 offices. Orrick practices in five core areas: Corporate, Energy & Infrastructure, Finance, Intellectual Property and Litigation. Known for our work in the technology sector, we act for many of the world’s top public companies as well as more than 1,200 start-ups. |
Local Support Partners
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Bpifrance is a public investment bank that finances businesses from the seed phase to transfer to stock exchange listing, through loans, guarantees and equity.
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CroissancePlus (http://www.croissanceplus.com) is the main entrepreneur's association in France. Its ca. 500 members lead the country's fastest-growing companies and share their success with employees and stakeholders. They militantly promote entrepreneurship in France and Europe, with high ethical values. CroissancePlus’ international network, ranging from China to California, provides members with immediate leverage on their growth paths. On September 2015, CroissancePlus merged with PMEfinance, a non political think tank bringing together leading entrepreneurs of every sector and financiers involved with innovation or small caps, in public and private equity, with a particular focus on venture capital and fintechs.
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EuroQuity is the digital ecosystem created by Bpifrance to put growth companies in contact with development partners and with investors in particular. |
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The French Banking Federation (FBF) is the professional organization that represents all banks operating in France. It has 383 adherent banking businesses of all origins (commercial, cooperative or mutual), both local and international. Its mission is to promote the interest of its members, the banking and financial activity on French, European and international level, and to define the positions, proposals and concerns vis-à-vis government and profession authorities of the economic and financial field. FBF is also the intermediary between the banking industry and all public banks: political and institutional world, the media, consumers, professional associations, teachers, think tanks. |
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AFIC represents French private equity and in this capacity affirms its irreplaceable role in the national economy of France. They are major players in the economy and provide companies with support and guidance on a long-term basis, throughout economic cycles and irrespective of the economic situation. AFIC provides equity, skills and know-how to the managers of the companies and supports them in order to foster their creation, development or transmission. In 2014, 1,700 companies were financed by AFIC members. |
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Oakland Partners provides M&A and Corporate Finance advice to High Tech Companies. Oakland Partners, based in London, has a presence in Paris, Madrid and Tel-Aviv.
Our Partners advised companies for M&A transactions and Private Placements for the last 17 years.
We have key relationships with both global acquirers of technology companies and long standing relationships with IT giants: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Google, Intel, ARM, Qualcomm, Symantec, Salesforce.com, HP, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, RIM, NEC, Rakuten, Samsung and many others.
Oakland Partners industries expertise are: Cybersecurity and Forensics, Big-Data, Fintech, Mobile/Wireless, Cloud, Enterprise Software and SaaS, Storage and Communications Networks, Luxury Goods and E-commerce, Marketing, Digital Media.
Our success as a Corporate Finance firm is ultimately measured by the 900 M$ in cumulated transactions done to date by our Partners.
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Paris EUROPLACE is the organization in charge of promoting and developing the Paris financial marketplace. It brings together and represents a great variety of players active in the financial industry: issuers, investors, banks, insurance companies and financial intermediaries, whether they are French or non-French entities. As a privileged intermediary with the European and French authorities with which it maintains an ongoing and constructive dialogue, Paris EUROPLACE initiates proposals for the collective benefits of the financial center. |
