2025 French Private Equity Breakfast

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The 2025 French Private Equity Breakfast is an annual event hosted through the joint cooperation of Pedersen & Partners and and CMS.

The audience will bring together senior decision-makers from private equity, mezzanine & venture funds, asset managers, financial institutions, advisory firms, family offices, and portfolio companies.

Type:
Private Equity Breakfast
Venue:

CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats

Co-Chairs: 

  • Alvaro Arias - Partner & Head of Private Equity Practice, Pedersen & Partners
  • Alexandre Delhaye - Partner, CMS Francis Lefebvre

Panellists:

  • Rémi Berteloot - Managing Director, Development Capital Funds, Bpifrance
  • Bertrand Boré - CEO, Creadev
  • François Candelon - Partner Value Creation & Portfolio Monitoring, Seven2
  • Charles Henri Clappier - Partner, Head of KSO France & Business Development, Kartesia
  • François Dunoyer de Segonzac - Partner, Accuracy
  • Caroline Folleas - Partner, Cathay Capital Private Equity

  • Jaana Grüter - Partner, Mérieux Equity Partners

  • Isa Schulz - Investment Director, Lower-Mid Cap, idiCo

Panel discussion topics:

  • Importance of ESG criteria in fundraising and when selecting portfolio companies, including the increased demand for governance at both the fund and portfolio levels;
  • Outlook for and latest trends in investment, finance, and M&A activity, including deal flow, valuations and exit strategies, search funds, one purpose funds, private debt funds, continuation funds;
  • High opportunity sectors and market segments: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Life Sciences, digital & energy infrastructure, water & food security, smart mobility;
  • Value creation: portfolio management and exit strategies, change management, the significance of human capital in due diligence, succession planning, and key talent acquisition and retention;
  • Influence of current external factors such as interest rates and inflation, armed geopolitical conflicts, corporate taxation, and key elections;
  • Fundraising environment: who are the main sources of capital: institutional investors, family offices, corporate ventures, sovereign wealth funds, multilaterals, funds of funds;
  • Outbound investment destinations - what geographies have the highest potential for investors and their portfolio companies?