Financière Monceau

Financiere Monceau was born from the combination of various expertise. At Financiere Monceau, we all share the same values: entrepreneurship, loyalty and transparency. Each process is driven by a partner who benefits from unique industry expertise which he has acquired over the years.

Senior Advisors

Catherine Trividic
Senior Advisor

Catherine has almost 20 years of experience in the M&A industry, mostly in the Healthcare and Life Science Sector and mid-cap companies.

Cahterine started her career with Financiere Indosuez prior to joining the M&A department of Rhône Poulenc Rorer (now Sanofi-Aventis). From that point, Catherine pursued a career within tier-one European banks such as Calyon Global Investment Banking and Bryan, Garnier & Co.

Catherine lead more than 40 M&A and financing operations in the healthcare industry as well as in various other sectors. She graduated from HEC.

Catherine joined the board of senior advisors at Financiere Monceau to share her knowledge of the healthcare industry.

Here are a few transactions Catherine advised:

- 2012: Advisory to InGen Biosciences, for its €20m sale to Exonhit

- 2011: Advisory to Cellectis, worldwide pioneer in genome engineering, for the acquisition of the Swedish company, Cellartis, and for a concomitant € 50m private placement, incl. € 25m from the FSI

Advisory to Laboratoires Sebbin, developing high-quality breast implants, for a €8m private placement

- 2010: Advisory to Transgene, biotech company specialized in therapeutic vaccines and immunotherapy products, for a € 150m follow-on offering

Advisory to Integragen, developing innovative molecular diagnostic solutions, for its €7m IPO

- 2009: Advisory to the Fond Stratégique d’Investissement (FSI), the French sovereign fund, for a potential investment in a cardiology-focused company (not completed)

Advisory to Exonhit, developing innovative therapeutic and diagnostic solutions in the Alzheimer disease and in oncology, for a €15.6m follow-on offering

Advisory to Innate Pharma, immunology biopharma, for a €24.3m PIPE, incl. €11m from the FSI

Past experience :

- 2007 – 2012: BRYAN, GARNIER & Co, Paris, Director, Corporate Finance Healthcare & Life Science sector

- 2004 - 2007: CALYON, GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANKING Division, Paris, Director, Responsible for the Pharma & Healthcare sector since 2006

- 1998 - 2004: CLINVEST, Paris, Associate Director, member of the Consumer & Retail sector team. Specific emphasis on the Pharma & Healthcare sector.

- 1996 - 1997: RHÔNE POULENC RORER, Research & Development Division, Finance Department, Paris
Mergers & Acquisitions Department, Philadelphia, PA

- 1994 - 1995: FINANCIERE INDOSUEZ, Paris, Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Georges Dzuidzia
Senior Advisor

Michel Gostoli
Senior Advisor

Harley E. Ryan
Senior Advisor

Harley E. Ryan, Jr. (Chip) is the SunTrust (US Bank) Professor of Capital Markets and Associate Professor of Finance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has been teaching since 2005.

Professor Ryan’s research interests span a wide array of topics in finance and capital markets including compensation and incentive systems, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, the role of financial intermediaries in corporate decision-making, capital investment decisions, and insurance. He has published papers in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Review of Finance, Financial Management and the Journal of Corporate Finance among others.

Professor Ryan has been involved in over 50 presentations at national and regional conferences (such as the American Finance Association and the European Finance Association Meetings) where his research and analysis where presented to the public. He has also presented his research to the Office of Economic Analysis at the Securities and Exchange Commission and at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Ryan has served as an expert witness in valuation and security arbitration cases, and has provided executive education to numerous professional groups including the Graduate School of Banking at LSU, the Turnaround Management Society Certification Review Course, the LSU Executive Program, and the Georgia State University Munich Re Program.

Professor Ryan has a Ph.D. in Finance and an MBA from Georgia State University, and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Professor Ryan joined Financiere Monceau's board of Senior advisors to share his views and research on mergers and acquisitions. He will also help the team on its crossborders transactions with the USA.

Past experience:

- Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
        SunTrust Professor of Capital Markets, 2007 – present
        Associate Professor, 2005 – present
        Temporary Instructor, 1992 – 1994
        Research Assistant, 1989-1992

- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Associate Professor, 2004 – 2005
Assistant Professor, 1998 – 2004

   - Northeastern University, Boston, MA
        Assistant Professor, 1994 – 1998

-   Sales engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1983-1989)

Lionel Melka
Senior Advisor

Today, Lionel is Co-manager and Head of research at Bernheim, Dreyfus and Co., an asset management company, specialized in alternative investments.

Lionel started his career in 1998 with Lazard Frères, where he undertook numerous M&A advisory engagements for blue chip clients (LVMH, Saint-Gobain, Casino, France Telecom, Thomson, Air Liquide, Kingfisher) in a large scope of situations: privatizations, friendly and hostile takeover bids, LBOs, asset disposals and IPOs. He then joined the M&A Department of Calyon, where he worked on various advisory assignments in the TMT-Defence team and LCF Rothschild in 2005 where he led many M&A cross-border assignments in various industry sectors. He is also a teacher at the University of Paris Dauphine, one of the leading academic institutions in Europe, in the fields of corporate finance, asset allocation and alternative investments.

Lionel accepted to join Financiere Monceau's board of Senior advisors to share his strong knowledge and experience of the mergers and acqusitions industry with the team.

Here are a few of the transaction Lionel advised:

   - Advisor to Casino in its alternative cash/share tender offer on Monoprix
   - Advisor to Air France in its privatization
   - Advisor to Publicis in the merger of Publicis SA et Publicis Communication
   - Advisor to LVMH in the takeover on Belle Jardinière
   - Advisor to Kingfisher in the buy-out of But
   - Advisor to Saint-Gobain in the cash offer on Meyer International:
   - Advisor to Havas in its equity offering
   - Advisor to Vivendi Universal in the restructuring of UGC’s shareholding
   - Advisor to Debitel France in its acquisition of Videlec
   - Advisor to Socpresse in the exit of Carlyle from Figaro Holding
   - Advisor to Castorama in its defence against the hostile takeover bid launched by Kingfisher
   - Advisor to Floréane Medical Implants in the takeover bid launched by Tyco
   - Advisor to Roularta Media Group in the buy-out of Groupe L'Express L’Expansion from Dassault Group