N+1 adds fourth managing partner to Paris team

The hire comes one month after N+1 set up a dedicated corporate finance office in Paris. At the time, the firm appointed managing partners Franck Portais, Olivier Guignon and Oriane Durvye, and announced the three would be joined by an additional peer before year-end.

The four executives will oversee a team of 15 professionals targeting transactions valued at up to €1bn. Having worked on three transactions to date, the team is currently working on approximately 15 mandates, it was revealed in September.

Noat started out as a corporate finance analyst at EY, which he left in January 1997 to become an associate within Societe Generale's M&A team.

In September 1998, he was hired as deputy director by Rothschild & Cie and focused on M&A transactions in the European, Latin American and African markets. He left the role in November 2004, when he was appointed director of corporate finance by BNP Paribas.

In March 2007, he helped establish Partanéa, a Paris-headquartered M&A boutique adviser that was acquired by investment bank Oddo & Cie in December 2008. The takeover saw Noat join Oddo's corporate finance team, where he coordinated the firm's M&A operations until April 2015.

As part of his role at Oddo, he advised Naxicap and the founder of French retirement home operator Colisée when the business was sold to Eurazeo PME with a €175m enterprise value in July 2014.

Additional deals he worked on include Ardian's carve-out of Laboratoire Anios from corporate parent Air Liquide in October 2013 and the Keensight- and LBO Partners-backed SBO of Menix Group from Turenne in April 2014.

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