TRANSACTION FINANCE

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A PRIVATE INVESTMENT BANK DEVOTED TO SMALL AND
MID SIZED TRANSACTIONS
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• A clear identity
• Transaction Finance is an independent consultancy
  firm based in Paris, specialized in Mergers
  Acquisitions and wholly owned by its managers.
• We are committed to helping our clients listed
  corporations, family owned companies and
  institutions - by providing them with superior
  quality advice and creative solutions to their
  complex problems.
• We are targeting medium size transactions
• up to 100 million.

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• A distinct Positioning
• Our entrepreneurial direct approach, allows us to
  interact swiftly with efficiency and flexibility
  to the needs of our clients.
• We are free from external pressures or conflicts
  of interest.

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• Our ambition
• Create an intimate partnership with each of our
  clients and counterparts, based on trust and
  intellectual integrity.
• Target a longstanding relationship with our
  clients.
• Conduct all our advisory assignments with the
  utmost discretion.

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• Our strengths
• Crucial mix of strong operating and financial
  skills.
• Broad experience and excellent track record of
  the partners in closing successful transactions.
• Extensive network of business relationships
  covering a wide range of financial and trade
  institutions at top levels.
• A partnership structure allowing strong
  involvement, fidelity and competitiveness.

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• Our services include
• Acquisitions and spin-offs
• Leveraged buyouts, MBOs and MBIs
• Strategic advice
• Capital and mezzanine- raising
• Cross border transactions with Eastern Europe

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• The team
• Guy de la Barthe, Partner
• HEC, IEP Paris
• Previously
• ABN AMRO Manager of a private equity fund.
• AGF Group Co-founder of a private equity fund
  Board member of REL Partners
• Banque BGP SIB Associate
• Manufacturers Hannover Trust Financial Analyst.

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• Jean Claude Perrin, Partner
• HEC, MBA Dartmouth USA,
• Director of Spie Batignolles
• Previously
• Schneider Electric member of the Executive
  Committee, Executive VP and CFO
• Spie Batignolles General Manager
• Corning Glass in the USA Division CFO.

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• Jean-Jacques Duffau, Partner
• ESSEC
• Previously
• Paribas and BNP-Paribas (22 years) with
  assignments in Private Equity (PAI, BNP-Paribas
  Development), MA and Corporate Banking

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• Luc de Basquiat, Partner
• ESSEC, CPA
• Previously
• Chairman of Media Presse and Chairman of
  Rustica
• Media Participations General Manager
• SGN COGEMA Deputy Financial Manager
• UIC SOFAL Associate.

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• Other Partners
• Denis Kibler ESC-Dijon
• Member of the Paris Tribunal de Commerce,
  previously co founder of Infraplus and senior
  executive of Schneider Electric
• Nicolas Mugni, based in Athens Polytechnique of
  Grenoble and Eindhoven University, previously VP
  Deloitte,

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• Client references
• Lafarge
• Air Liquide
• Bergerat Monnoyeur
• ABN AMRO
• Washington LP US financial investor
• Spie Batignolles
• Axa Private Equity
• IDI lInstitut du Développement Industriel
• AMEC Spie Communication
• Noonday Asset Management

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• Recent and ongoing transactions
• Monitoring of an investment in an industrial
  group 50M
• Arrangement of a leverage structure in a minority
  holding 25M
• Disposal of a corporate venture fund 10M
• Mezzanine raising 12M
• Equity raising 4M
• Advisory assignment by a french industrial group
  (turnover 150M) to assist in the opening of its
  capital base to its employees and to an
  investment fund.
• Advisory assignment by a french consortium to
  assist the take-over of a service activity
  (spin-off)

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• Contacts
• Guy de la Barthe
• gdelabarthe_at_transactionfinance.fr
• Jean Claude Perrin
• jcperrin_at_transactionfinance.fr
• Jean-Jacques Duffau
• jjduffau_at_transactionfinance.fr
• Transaction Finance
• 10 rue de Milan
• 75009 Paris FRANCE
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• WEBSITE http//www.transactionfinance.fr
• EMAIL info_at_transactionfinance.fr

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