Private Equity – EBITDA & Cash Performance
Ensuring the strength of Operations is key to successful equity investment. Value creation levers can be activated throughout the life cycle of an investment to achieve expected returns.
Flavien Lamarque
President | ESTP
Christophe Bressange
Managing Partner Operations | EMLyon
Charles Thaumiaux
Partner (Paris) | Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
“Our goal? To support Private Equity players throughout the life cycle of an investment and to ensure that the performance of an investment is sustainable.”
Flavien Lamarque
ESTP
Flavien is an engineer with a degree from the Civil Engineering School of Paris. For over 25 years, he has been supporting retailers and industrial customers in their transformation, integration and performance programs. He joined Mews Partners in 2010 to develop Supply Chain and performance operations activities. He is also interested in the emergence of new AI & Digital technologies and their impacts on current business models. He chairs the Mews Partners Group.
Christophe Bressange
EMLyon
Christophe is a graduate of EM Lyon and has more than 15 years of experience in leading supply chain consulting firms. He also held operational management positions for 7 years in the Geodis group and the Casino group. Christophe joined the Operations practice to bring his knowledge of the GIC, Retail, Transport & Logistics sectors, as well as his experience in international supply chain transformation projects. He manages Mews Operations.
Charles Thaumiaux
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Charles is a graduate of Ponts et Chaussées (03L). Formerly from Atford Consulting, he was a Director at KPMG France until he joined Mews Partners in 2021. Specializing in operational performance in industry and services with a technical component, he has been working for more than 16 years on high-stakes business transformation projects, from the definition of strategic orientations and performance diagnostics to the effective implementation of recommendations and the achievement of proven results.
Charles works mainly on statistical process control issues (Six Sigma) and performance of Production and Maintenance functions in industrial environments, as well as on the performance of engineering projects and securing infrastructure projects.
His main sectors of activity are rail transport, infrastructure, chemicals, nuclear, mineral extraction and agribusiness.
With more than €5 billion invested in industrial goods and services in 2019, French private equity is experiencing strong growth. In order to achieve the high levels of return expected by investors, investment funds need to foster value creation and transformation of their portfolio companies. It then becomes essential to provide efficient, actionable and tangible operational levers: links between financial reporting and operational performance, improvement of recurrent EBITDA, alignment of the Business Plan with operational reality…
€5bn
investment in industrial goods and services in 2019 in France
489
companies have been invested in the sector in 2019
18.2%
IRR (internal rate of return) over 1 year at the end of 2019
Performance optimization as a guarantee of a successful investment
In a capital investment, it is essential to properly assess the company’s financial and operational performance. The solidity of EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization), production efficiency, control of WCR (Working Capital Requirement) and of inventory levels are all performance drivers. Thanks to its ability to make the connection between the company’s strategy and operational transformations, Mews Partners accompanies its Private Equity clients in value creation.
A Private Equity offer based on a comprehensive expertise in Operations
Our extensive expertise in optimizing the business and operational models of our clients in industry, distribution and services enables us to provide you with the keys to successful investment. Mews Partners’ value proposition can be applied to an investor environment and provides tangible and actionable operational levers for the management of investments.
- By bringing our expertise on the full scope of Operations: Production Purchasing, Procurement, Supply Chain, R&D, Industrialization, Production, Logistics, Transport, IT/Digital, Operations
- In the industrial, distribution and service sectors
- For Small & MidCaps investments
- By aligning our interventions to the different milestones in the life cycle of an investment
A comprehensive service throughout the investment life cycle
Our experts accompany private equity players to achieve the expected performance over the entire investment life cycle, from acquisition to divestment, through integration and mid-cycle growth.