Activa recruits Sergent as manager

Sergent's M&A career started at BNP Paribas in 2007, where she specialised in media and telecoms companies. In early 2008, she was recruited as a strategy and development analyst by hospitality group Accor.

Between September 2009 and July 2010, she worked within the transaction services team of corporate finance adviser Mazars. She left her post in August 2010, when she was hired as an M&A analyst by Nomura; the firm promoted her to associate in April 2013.

Sergent will be joining Activa's 20-strong workforce, headed by partners Charles Diehl, Michael Diehl, Philippe Latorre and Christophe Parier. The GP's investment team, led by directors Pierre Chabaud, Gregory Fradélizi and Benjamin Moreau, has worked on the Armatis and Findis refinancings so far in 2015, as well as La Maison Bleue's bolt-on of La Part de Rêve.

Her appointment comes within days of the release of an Afic report on diversity within French private equity. According to the research, women represented 20% of all investment team members in the country in 2014; an uptick was found for female partners, while board-level female representation declined from 13% to 12%.

Women accounted for 30% of managers in French private equity firms in 2014 – a similar figure to 2013, which had seen a 23% increase compared to 2012.

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