Natixis to buy Leonardo France

Natixis has entered exclusive negotiations with Banca Leonardo over the purchase of Leonardo France, which provides M&A services to mid-cap corporates and financial sponsors based in France.

The division has a workforce of 25 investment bankers and is led by Patrick Maurel.

Leonardo France, based in Paris, specialises in sell-side mandates and advises on around 30 transactions per year.

Most recently, Leonardo advised on the acquisition by Sagard, Euromezzanine and Societe Generale Capital Partenaires of French speciality chemicals distributor Safic-Alcan from Parquest Capital. The M&A firm provided corporate finance advice to Parquest in the deal.

Last October, Leonardo advised Apax Partners on its €730m take-private of Dutch software firm Exact Holding, as well as Pragma Capital on the €130m sale of French animal artificial insemination business IMV Technologies to Qualium Investissement.

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