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I am a leader who loves entrepreneurs

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and therefore businesses,

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I try to focus all our success

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on their creativity, their imagination,

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And this way, we were able to focus

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our DNA on value creation,

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which has helped us build wonderfull stories.

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That's what we are trying to build today at I-Deal Development.

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Today, at I-Deal Development,

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our state of mind

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is to become a serial developer.

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We are value creators.

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This is our DNA.

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We help our clients with capital raising:

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mergers;

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sales;

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acquisitions.

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And today, we are established 

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in France,

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in Lille, Nantes, Paris, Lyon and Nice,

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as well as in Montreal and Brussels

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My old manager,

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when I was running Altran,

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asked me at that time:

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What will you do after this?

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I said, well

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I cannot support the Red Cross

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because I'm not a nurse

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or a doctor,

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so I cannot do anything like that,

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but I would like to support them.

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And one day, I met someone

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who said to me:

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The best way to support someone

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is to give him or her a job.

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So, I said, "Yes! Of course,

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I can do that!"

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And what I can do

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is to help small companies

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to be bigger and bigger,

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And this is why we created

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I-Deal Development.

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The main I-Deal value

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is trust.

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We lead the customer to success

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and we never let down the partner along the road.

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In fact, it depends how you look at it,

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Whether it's a market

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or a kind of deal:

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M&A;

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LBO;

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sales;

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operations;

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whatever.

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There are many ways to see it

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and we are proud to say we are a lot of them.

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One of I-Deal Development's strengths

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is to quickly identify

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a business's assets

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to increase its value

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and create what we call the high value.

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This is what we have been able to do

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on a deal in organic retail

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also thanks to Datasite's support.

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We helped with a merger mandate 

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over a few months

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and we succeeded in creating, with Carrefour,

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the future leading organic brand

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called SO'BiO.

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A business owner comes to us with little capital.

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Ten years later, the business is a listed multinational company

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with 1,500 people active on two continents,

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which we provide daily support to on M&A operations and strategy advice.

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We also worked for over 10 years

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for Walor International,

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one of the leading European machining and forging businesses,

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 with two capital raisings,

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and six acquisitions around the world,

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increasing their turnover from €15 to €240 million.

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The advice I would give to newcomers would be

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to reconsider,

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to be open-minded,

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to be agile,

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to be ambitious.

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New technologies allow us

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to quickly access information

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and analyze the market,

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and allow us to centralize data

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and optimize M&A processes.

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In my opinion, to succeed

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in M&A,

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capital raising,

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or LBOs,

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it is important to work with the right technology.

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But it is essential to get great support and professionalism.

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The main criteria in choosing a good partner are:

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trust,

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transparency,

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and responsiveness.

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We are dealmakers

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and we fully trust Datasite