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Arka finance

  • We are an investment bank specialized in M&A and fundraising operations for SMEs and ISEs.
  • Our team works with you independently at all stages of your company’s life cycle to handle all of its financial issues with a multisectoral approach to better understand its environment, positioning and market dynamics.
  • Our main sectors of intervention are Engineering, Technology Consulting, IT Services, Digital Transition, Industry, Energy and Sustainable Development.
  • Our geographical footprint extends throughout Europe thanks to the support of international partners.
  • Each of our transactions has benefited from the commitment and expertise of our teams in order to provide a bespoke service to our mandators and thus maximise their interests.

Arka Finance team

An experienced, multi-disciplinary team, operating in France and internationally, to help you achieve your strategic objectives.

Executive Committee

Patrick Martinucci

A founding director with a solid background in the business world

Patrick Martinucci

Patrick, the founder, is a chartered accountant and a graduate of the ESLSCA business school. After having been an auditor at ARTHUR ANDERSEN, Patrick held the position of CFO in subsidiaries of several international groups such as PERNOD RICARD.

In 1990, he was appointed Managing Director of the SOGICA-OLSTEN group (650 M€ Turnover), which was acquired by ADECCO in early 2000. In March of the same year, he joined the SEGULA Technologies group (10,000 employees in France and abroad, Turnover of 700 M€) where he became Chairman of the Executive Board.

After leaving his position within the SEGULA group, Patrick  created ARKA FINANCE in 2008, specializing himself in M&A and Fundraising.

Patrick has completed more than 130 M&A transactions, including 4 major build-up,  and fundraising for a total amount of 250 M€.

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A Senior Vice-President, an expert in corporate finance and a specialist in the industrial sector

Jean-François Bouygues

Jean-François trained as a chartered accountant and has a degree in corporate finance from the University of Paris Dauphine. He has extensive experience both in audit firms (EY, Mazars) and in the corporate world. After holding a number of senior positions in the finance department of the Plastic Omnium group, he joined the Pochet group (3,700 employees, 450 M€ turnover) as CFO and member of the Executive Board.

He subsequently joined the Segula Technologies group as M&A Director, before moving to the 3P group, which specialises in plastics processing, where he held the position of Finance and Administration Director.

Throughout his career, Jean-François has developed strong skills in auditing and industry, as well as an excellent command of M&A operations.

A Vice-President specialising in financial engineering

Dylan Levy

Dylan graduated from the University of Paris Dauphine-PSL with a Master’s degree in Economics and Financial Engineering. After a successful track record as a financial controller within the CIBLE group, he has acquired robust expertise in M&A operations and fundraising.

M&A Analyst

Amandine Roger

Amandine is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Finance and Markets at the ESDES business school (École Supérieure pour le Développement Économique et Social), after working successfully in the services department of the CASINO distribution group.

Partners

Arka Finance relies on a group of consultants selected for their strategic, technical and organisational expertise, as well as on international representatives.

Our expertise

  • Acquisition Know more
  • Sale/Carve-out Know more
  • Fundraising & LBO/MBO/OBO Know more
  • Complex situation and restructuring Know more
  • Financial advisory Know more

Acquisition

  • The acquisition of a company is at the heart of your development strategy, with the objective of being a source of sustainable value creation.
  • We assist you in your external growth projects at every stage of the acquisition process, from identifying opportunities to the closing through the negotiation of the transaction.
  • In addition to the legal and financial approach to M&A, we combine an understanding of the technical, human and organizational challenges so that you can successfully integrate and implement the identified synergies.

Sale/Carve-out

  • The sale of your company or a branch of activity may be carried out by a strategic buyer, an investment fund or by joining an industrial group which will keep the management team.
  • In coordination with you, we establish a valuation report on your company and its assets in order to provide you with an objective vision of its economic and strategic value.
  • We assist you in setting up a competitive process with a number of counterparties, in negotiating an offer corresponding to your expectations in terms of valuation, integration project and post-acquisition development.

Fundraising & LBO/MBO/OBO

  • We accompany you through all the stages of the operation in order to identify the solution best suited to your personal and professional objectives as well as those of your company to optimize its development and strengthen its sustainability.
  • We start by identifying and evaluating your needs by defining a balanced package based on the economic and strategic value of your company. This stage is followed by a competitive bidding process with a selection of financial investors in order to select the best partner to carry out the operation.

Complex situation and restructuring

  • We support you in the early detection of factors such as economic underperformance, over-indebtedness, liquidity crisis, conflict between shareholders, etc. These factors have a negative impact on the proper running of your company and may ultimately compromise its development and sustainability.
  • We establish a diagnosis aimed at better controlling your company’s finances and strengthening its credibility towards third parties, and at defining together a detailed action plan adapted to your company.
  • We support you in the implementation of the solutions identified in the action plan in order to allow a return to a healthy situation for your company, favoring its development. In this perspective, a Carve-Out of non-strategic assets may allow to refocus on your core business and improve your financial structure.
  • We also provide you with a pragmatic approach adapted to the restructuring of your company in the event of the opening of an amicable procedure (ad-hoc mandate, conciliation) or judicial procedure (safeguard, legal recovery).

Financial advisory

  • We support you in your efforts to diversify and optimize your sources of financing, in line with your organic and external growth strategy.
  • We identify and evaluate your needs and look for the financial actors and the types of financing best suited to your project, and then accompany you in the negotiations.
  • At the same time, we carry out an analysis of your working capital requirements and propose a detailed action plan to optimise it.

Our clients

We assist French and European SMEs and ISEs in their external growth and sale operations.

We assist start-up in their development phase (series A, series B) as well as SMEs and ISEs in their fundraising operations.

Courbes d'évolution

Our main fields
of application

Ingénierie EPC/EPCM

Engineering
Services EPC/EPCM

Conseil en technologies

Technology
consulting

Services numériques

Digital services
(AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud...)

Mobility
(RAILWAY, AERONAUTIC, NAVAL...)

CONSTRUCTION
(ARCHITECTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, CIVIL ENGINEERING...)

ENERGY
(RENEWABLE, OIL & GAS, NUCLEAR)

Facility management

Facility
management

Travail temporaire

Temporary
work

Cabinets de chausseurs de têtes

Headhunting
office

New technologies
(Biotech, Edtech...)

A selection of our latest transactions

Sale of the French company Ingenica Ingenierie Industrielle to Bouygues Energies & Services.

Seller

Ingenica is a french company specialized in design engineering and construction management (EPCM) of investment and renovation projects, dedicated to the process industries, mainly in the chemical industry, with a revenue of approximately 10M€.

Buyer

Bouygues Energies & Services, subsidiary of the listed company Bouygues SA is one of the European leaders in long-term contracts. BYES designs, builds and manages the production, distribution and operation of tomorrow’s energy, while supporting the digitalization and development of innovative services for local residents, industrial players and service users.

Acquisition of Italian company Proeco Srl by French group Parlym

Seller

Proeco is an Italian multidisciplinary engineering company specialising in high-tech projects in the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Energy and Environmental sectors. Its services range from feasibility studies to basic design, including project management, procurement assistance, studies and commissioning assistance.

Buyer

Parlym is a major French player specialising in the design, construction and management of infrastructure in the Nuclear, Oil and Gas, and Renewable Energy sectors. Employing more than 1,300 people worldwide, the group expects to achieve consolidated sales of more than 210M€ by 31 March 2024, on services ranging from turnkey projects to the delegation of design and site personnel.

Our partnership

ARKA Finance & APICTAL Consulting And Investment

Transformation Transition Transactions

In 2021, a partnership agreement, named 3T, was concluded between ARKA FINANCE and the strategy consulting firm APICTAL with the dual objective to:

  • Combine their two multi-sectoral  expertise’s, strategy consulting and management of mergers, acquisitions and fundraising operations
  • Place mergers and acquisitions at the heart of their clients’ growth strategies in order to anticipate and seize market opportunities.
Philippe Breban

Philippe Breban

CEO of APICTAL

1987 diplomed engineer of Centrale Paris and holder of a PhD in Mechanics and Materials, he has dedicated more than 30 years to improve both efficiency of the industrial value chain, and innovation, in the fields of Industry and Services (aeronautical, defense, energy etc.).

News

Financial and Economic

Source : cnbc.com

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Contact

Arka finance

77 avenue Foch – 75116 Paris

Patrick Martinucci

Patrick Martinucci

Founder and CEO patrick.martinucci@arka-finance.com +33 6 10 66 16 89
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Jean-François Bouygues

Senior Vice President jeanfrançois.bouygues@arka-finance.com +33 6 11 49 17 17

Amandine Roger

M&A Consultant amandine.roger@arka-finance.com +33 6 24 18 43 07