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Corporate finance advisory in Europe, Africa and the Middle East

Optimise the terms of your capital transactions.

Fundraisings, disposals, acquisitions, IPOs and fund structuring: we structure, value and negotiate the terms of your capital transaction, on the sell side as on the buy side, for a deal that succeeds and a partnership that lasts.

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An adviser, not a securities dealer.

Our role is to secure the best terms for you (price, structure, warranties, governance, timetable) without weakening what will make the project succeed after signing.

25+
years of experience in capital markets and private placements
€1bn+
of mandates advised since 2009
3
exchanges: Euronext, NYSE and the Tunis Stock Exchange
CIIA
Chartered International Investment Analyst
A securities dealer
Capinvest Partners, your adviser
Is mainly looking to close
Optimises the terms of the transaction for its client
Is paid for making introductions
Balances the client’s interest and the project’s
Stays neutral on the project’s future
Works for the success of the deal and the partnership
Disappears once the transaction is signed
Stays by your side well after closing

Our client’s interest

Your value, your terms, your position in the negotiation. That is our mandate, and it comes first.

The project’s interest

A price wrung out at the expense of the structure weakens the company. We look for terms it can carry over the long term.

The success of the deal

An agreement built with both parties, so that it gets signed, gets carried out and gives rise to a genuine partnership.

What we do for you

  1. 1 Preparing the company, business plan and equity story
  2. 2 A well-argued, defensible valuation
  3. 3 Running a competitive process among buyers and investors
  4. 4 Negotiating price, warranties and governance

Our expertise

The whole advisory chain, from strategy to closing.

Modelling, valuation, information memorandum, data room, due diligence, documentation and negotiation.

Strategic advisory

Working alongside leading international firms, up to the definition of national sector strategies.

Reference

Restructuring of the Tunisian tourism sector

Selected transactions.

Over 25 years of corporate finance mandates.

  • 2023 Mezzanine fund for the restructuring of SMEs Fonds Tunisien d’Investissement (FTI) EUR 100m
  • 2022 Structuring of a founder studio Betacube, Tunisia USD 15m
  • 2020 Structuring of a Covid emergency fund Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Tunisia EUR 200m
  • 2014 Creation of a management company (GP) Keystone Finance, Côte d’Ivoire: hotel restructuring fund Fund
  • 2010 Restructuring of hotel sector debt Bank, Tunisia EUR 500m

Beyond completed transactions, numerous preparation and structuring mandates (business plans, valuations, memoranda, restructuring plans) in industry, tourism, healthcare, maritime services and digital.

Maher Zaanouni, founder and managing partner of Capinvest Partners
Maher Zaanouni Founder and managing partner, CIIA

A word from the founder

“Artificial intelligence helps us think, and it speeds things up. It cannot see a deal through to completion.”

An AI can summarise a sector or sketch a valuation in seconds, and we use it to move faster. But a transaction is won where no database goes: an owner selling the company of a lifetime, the clause that tips a negotiation, the trust between two parties who do not yet know each other.

A good deal is not one where one party wins against the other. It is one that creates the conditions for the project to succeed.

Career

  1. 2000 €50bn+ ABN AMRO Structured, project and acquisition financing
  2. 2006 €2bn+ ABN AMRO Rothschild IPOs, capital increases, convertibles
  3. 2008 €300m+ MediCapital Finance Director in Paris (BMCE Bank), Africa transactions
  4. Since 2009 €1bn+ Capinvest Partners M&A, equity, quasi-equity and debt, MENA region

What AI does not replace

Context, not the average

Shareholders, regulatory and cultural constraints: we know the markets in which we operate.

Judgement in negotiation

When to hold firm, when to concede, which clause really matters: that is learned at the table, not in a model.

Trust and network

25 years of relationships with investors, banks, law and audit firms, multilateral institutions.

Beyond the success of a transaction, we support you in achieving your long-term roadmap.

  1. 1

    Before

    We understand your strategy, well before the transaction.

  2. 2

    During

    We defend it at the negotiating table.

  3. 3

    After

    We stay by your side for the next steps.

Our success is measured by the quality and longevity of our relationship with our clients and partners.

Let’s talk about your next transaction.

A first conversation, confidential and without obligation, directly with the founder.

  • Total confidentiality
  • Europe, Africa and the MENA region
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