Bio

Eric Lanthiez is a Partner of the business, having joined the Paris office in April 2021. He is a graduate of Toulouse Business School and holds a degree in accounting. Eric began his career with the M&A team of BNP Paribas in New York for 2 years, then in Latin America where he spent 7 years based in Buenos Aires. Between 2001 and 2010, he worked with Rothschild & Co in Paris, covering Central Eastern Europe, North Africa, Ukraine and Turkey where he set up the Istanbul office in 2007. Before joining Spayne Lindsay, Eric headed Messis Finance, a Unigrains-owned M&A advisory boutique focused on Food & Agri, for 5 years. Eric has specialized on the Food & Agri sector, advising clients on numerous cross-border transactions, buy-side as well as sell-side roles, including Mutandis’ acquisition of Season Brand (USA), divestment of Ulrick & Short (UK) to Novax, acquisition of ABI Ltd (Canada) by Mecatherm, divestment of McKnight Food Group (USA), acquisition of Euroclassic (USA) by Europastry, acquisition of Costa d’Oro (Italy) by Avril, acquisition of MyFresh (UK) by Agrial, acquisition of Unicorn (Netherlands) by Limagrain, acquisition of Aqualande (France) by Labeyrie, acquisition of Père Olive (Belgium) and King Cuisine (Netherlands) by Labeyrie.