Sophie Perat

Andera Partners invests in companies located in France. The firm focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provides debt financing through mezzanine, growth capital but also financing for later stage, LBO, MBO and buyout. The firm seeks for minority or majority stakes and also makes co-investments.

Functions as a College/University

Muzinich France is an active manager which seeks to accompany the current banking disintermediation in Europe by launching private debt funds investing in small and middle-cap companies in French speaking countries in Europe The firm performs bottom-up credit research, seeking to invest in bonds for which the market is mispricing risk. They constantly assess relative value and dynamically adjust portfolios as risk-return profiles change, aiming to compound attractive interest streams while avoiding defaults and credit impairments. Their investment process is designed around their value lending philosophy and is based on 5 principles: building an understanding of the business model of the companies to which they lend; conducting proprietary quantitative analysis and stress testing their investment assumptions for difficult environments; reviewing credit contracts and covenants; evaluating company management and constructing highly liquid portfolios of best ideas to achieve appropriate risk-return characteristics.