Bio

Michel is Managing Partner and Board Director of Capitalmind, which he founded in 1999. He is also head of the Paris office. He has worked in M&A for 20+ years, as the lead dealmaker on more than 100 transactions advised on behalf of Capitalmind, including divestitures, buy-outs, financings and acquisitions. Michel assists all types of clients, from large corporates to entrepreneurs, families and private equity houses. He acted as board member and then chairman of the supervisory board of Davey Bickford, a €80m revenue high-tech family group, which ran a buy-out with Argos Soditic in 2007 and was sold in 2015 to the Chilean group ENAEX. He has a deep understanding of company strategies and international deal-making – notably in Business Services, Industrials, and Food & Agro. He holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School. He is fluent in French and English.