Who
we are ?
Quartz Partners is a partner-led advisory boutique that supports European companies and their shareholders in their M&A projects or capital increase.
Quartz Partners provides tailor-made transaction advice to entrepreneurs and its clients in general, be it for a Company sale, external growth or financial engineering (equity and debt advisory, special situations).
Quartz Partners What makes us different is a comprehensive approach, combining a senior expertise with bespoke solutions involving business strategy and operations.
Our core values are integrity and privacy.
What makes us
different ?
- Senior-led involvement providing experience and agility,
- Rooted in entrepreneurial culture with a proven track record in diversified industries,
- We recognize that every transaction is unique, with a special focus on results.
QUARTZ PARTNERS is a co-founding member of FRANCE M&A, the first French network of independent corporate advisors.
International
coverage
The team has the capacity to address cross-border transactions, be it for external growth acquisitions or boost shareholder’s value out of France.
Quartz Partners is the French representative of the ACS Network, which brings together independent firms that share our core values of reactivity, privacy and achievement (http://theacspartners.co).
Our Expertise
We built our relationship on long term trust with owners-managers, family-owned businesses or professional investors. Our personal involvement in assignments allows a comprehensive approach, with a strategic view on all business drivers, be they financial, industrial, operational, legal, tax or wealth management.
Our strength: tailor the best strategy and timing in order to achieve the best possible results, with the most relevant counterparts.
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Fundraising & financial engineering
- Business Advisory
- Business Valuation
Sell-side advisory (shares or assets) with an insight from the perspective of both trade (businesses) or financial buyers (investors):
- Disposal/owner succession (total or partial) of businesses,
- Spin off of non-strategic assets or minority shareholdings,
- Shareholder reorganisation ;
Buy side advisory :
- External growth (add-ons): market share, expertise or technology acquisition,
- « Buy-in » advisory : we support entrepreneurs in their business “second stage” process: identification of targets, valuation, negotiation and financing;
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances;
- Equity (capital increase), quasi-equity for fast growing companies achieved through our network of private equity investors and family offices.
- Growth capital for SMEs needing to fuel their growth (add-ons or organic),
- Arrangement of financial transactions : LBO, OBO, MBO or MBI ;
- Financial turnaround advisory or special situations (extradinary situations, strategic pivot) requiring financial partners,
- Management advisory focused on value creation: implementation of reporting systems (ERP, CRM), auditing tools, KPIs.
- Post-transaction advice : integration strategy, roadmaps and planning.
Quartz Partners advises shareholders ahead of a transaction according to international best practices and most relevant valuation methods: focus on market drivers of each business sector (comparables, financials, clients, management team, competition, market trends, brand recognition, industrial or or real estate assets).
TEAM
Involvement
& entrepreneurship
Quartz Founders bring a mixed and diversified experience: this is what sets us apart, we’ve been there, done it and really know how to realise value effectively.
Jean-Marc LLOUBÈRES
PARTNERS
Jean Marc, co founder of Quartz Partners, worked 10 years at controlling, audit and finance executive positions for international groups in Germany, Spain, France (Renault trucks, E&Y, Fresenius Group (healthcare)) in industry and services sectors. He has been working since 2000 in the M & A and fund raising business, as partner of small M & A boutiques, specialized in smal/mid caps, for industrial, services and distribution companies. He advises since 2012 the Marcel & Fils group, a leading organic distribution brand, for its acquisitions in France (sales > 100 M€).
Tél. : 06 20 45 38 45
Hervé GROSJEAN
PARTNERS
Hervé Grosjean, Co-founder, has advised numerous transactions in France and Europe for owners/managers, family businesses and private equity funds (acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings).
He got involved in the transaction business in 2000, with the sale of DIAGRAM, a financial software editor he had taken over via an LBO.
Hervé started his career at the Corporate Finance Department of CCF (now HSBC France).
He is director of FRANCE M&A, the 1ster French network of independent advisory firms.
Tél. : 06 21 48 38 31
Our
deals
We advise SMEs and Corporates, from very diversified sectors: Industry, Services, Retail, IT & software, Energy and cleantech, Fintech, Agribusiness, F&B, cosmetics, healthtech.
Our core competencies, in France and Europe, include: company sales, company acquisitions and capital increase.
Please contact us
Direct line numbers
+33 (0)1 01 42 61 79 20
Address
66 av. des Champs-Élysées
info@quartz-partners.com