Martine Liautaud

Martine Liautaud specializes in the strategic consulting of major groups for their diversification and acquisitions: as a commercial banker she is expert in the implementation of their strategic choices and related financial transactions; as an entrepreneur she has the ability to cope with difficult times of strategy implementation; and as an investor, she has the experience to identify market opportunities. Martine Liautaud is an investment banker, entrepreneur and investor, specializing in mergers & acquisitions and financial engineering. After 16 years as director, then partner, in Bank lndosuez, she left in 1990 to set up her first independent advisory and investment company.Since 2000 she has successfully run Liautaud & Cie, which specializes in M&A, financial engineering, and advisory services for major French groups (CAC 40).As an investor, she has taken stakes in several companies either as a majority shareholder or important minority shareholder. These include Meccano, a leader in the toy sector (sold in 1995), and the publishing group, La Martiniere, where she was also Vice-Chairman