Paris, 2 February 2023 – Apax, one of Europe’s leading private equity firms, announces 2 recruitments for its investments teams: Adeline Marquette as Senior Associate and Arnaud Parry as Analyst, both joining the Apax Development team, and the recruitments of Manon Haefflinger as Compliance Officer and Xavier Gautrin as Debt Manager.
Apax’s investments have been growing steadily, and it continues to reinforce its teams in its search for new growth stories and as part of its efforts to help its portfolio companies with their value creation strategies.
Adeline Marquette and Arnaud Parry are joining the Apax Development team, Apax’s small-cap investment activity, at the time of the fund raising for its second vintage, FPCI Apax Development Fund II (ADF II)*. The aim is to raise 350 million euros for this fund. ADF II will primarily invest in French SMEs in the tech & telecom, business services and financial services sectors, as well as the healthcare and consumer goods sectors.
Apax also welcomes a Compliance Officer, Manon Haefflinger. She will be in charge of all the firm’s second-level controls and will ensure that the company’s procedures comply with the regulations.
Finally, to support Annick Bitoun, Xavier Gautrin is joining the Debt Capital Markets team. In particular, he will be in charge of working on the financing of new operations and external growth opportunities for Apax portfolio companies.
After completing studies focused on economics and finance at Sciences Po, Adeline Marquette, 27, began her career as an Analyst at Société Générale, where she assisted French key corporate accounts from the telecom and industrial sectors with their M&A strategy, as well as private equity and infrastructure funds on buy side transactions. She then spent two years at Riverside Europe, a US management company’s pan-European majority LBO vehicle. She examined numerous investment cases, particularly in the software and health care fields as a member of the team covering France and Benelux.
👉More about Adeline:
https://www.seven2.eu/en/people/adeline-marquette/
Arnaud Parry, 24, is an engineer, having graduated from the École des Ponts ParisTech. He was first introduced to the world of private equity during two internships, which he carried out first at Bpifrance and then at IDIA Capital Investissement (part of the Crédit Agricole Group). He then undertook his final year internship at Apax, after which he joined the Development team as an Analyst.
👉 More about Arnaud: https://www.seven2.eu/en/people/arnaud-parry/
Manon Haefflinger, 31, holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Criminal Law from Paris-Est Créteil University. She began her career in the banking sector, before moving into private equity in 2018 as a Compliance Officer in a management firm. 👉 More about Manon:
https://www.seven2.eu/en/people/manon-haefflinger/
After gaining a Master’s in mathematics from Paris Dauphine University in 2009, and graduating from EM Lyon Business School’s Grand Ecole programme, Xavier Gautrin, 35, began his career at Crédit Agricole CIB in 2012, in Paris, then in New York and London, where he worked in Leveraged Finance for two and a half years. He then spent three years in Leveraged Finance at BNP Paribas in London, before moving to Lazard’s financing and financial restructuring advisory team, in Paris, in 2019. 👉 More about Xavier: https://www.seven2.eu/en/people/xavier-gautrin/
*Investing in the professional private equity fund FCPI ADF II presents a capital loss risk and liquidity risk. Investment in this fund is reserved for qualified investors within the meaning of article 423-49 of the AMF GR.
This is a promotional document. Please refer to the AIF’s prospectus before taking any final investment decision.
About Apax
Apax is one of the leading private equity firms in Europe. With 50 years of experience, Apax works with companies over the long term to make them leaders in their sector. The funds managed and advised by Apax amount to over €5 billion. These funds invest in high-growth SMEs and SMIs in four sectors of specialisation: Tech & Telecom, Services, Health and Consumer Goods.
Apax sas, based in Paris (www.apax.fr), and Apax LLP, based in London (www.apax.com), have a common history but are two independent firms.
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