Activity :
Financial services
Customer :
Apollo Conseil & Courtage
Acquirer :
AON
Advice :
Nicolas Ibanez, Alexandra Marquand
About Largillière Finance
With offices in Paris, Nantes, Brussels and Geneva, Largillière Finance is an independent investment bank dedicated to assisting managers and shareholders of small and medium-sized companies with their capital transactions: company sales and acquisitions, financing (capital and/or debt), financial engineering (valuation, etc.) and financial strategy.
Sales - 2020
Aon, the world business consulting leader in risk management, retirement and health services, announces the acquisition of Apollo Conseil & Courtage
Apollo Conseil & Courtage has become over the years the benchmark player in France for insurance dedicated to the new technology sector thanks to its strong business expertise.
Nowadays it supports more than 600 French Tech players (Start-ups, SMEs, ETI…) in their development in France and abroad.
For more than a year from now, Aon France has planned for its strategy to invest in high-potential niche markets and to open up to new business sectors. In pursuit of this objective, the acquisition of Apollo Conseil & Courtage aims to strengthen the offer of Aon France for companies in the new technology sector.
Thanks to Apollo Conseil & Courtage’s expertise, the specific risk approach of this sector will allow Aon France to provide Tech players with a set of high added value services, whatever their size.
Within Aon, Apollo Conseil & Courtage will be able to grow, benefiting from the power of an international group and the reputation of a leader in insurance brokerage on the French market.
About Apollo Conseil & Courtage (www.apollocourtage.com)
Apollo Conseil & Courtage is an insurance consulting and brokerage company, dedicated to the risks of companies in the new technology sector: Software publishers, SaaS and Cloud players, ENS, Telecom, IoT, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medtech.
About AON (www.aon.com/france)
Aon plc (NYSE: AON) with their expertise and data processing capacities, is the world leader in business services in risk management and social security. It has 50.000 employees, present in 120 countries to develop solutions that help to improve the customer’s performance and to better control the volatility of their results.
Stakeholders List :
| Buyer : AON | |
| Sell Side : Apollo Conseil & Courtage | Christophe Gautié |
| Sell Side Advisor : Largillière Finance | Nicolas Ibanez, Alexandra Marquand |
| Buyer Corporate Lawyer: DLA Piper | Sonia de Kondserovsky, Fabien Goudot |
| Sell side Corporate Lawyer : Jausserand Audouard | Jérémie Jausserand, Arnaud Levasseur, Marion Salus, Pascal Gour |
Christophe Gautié
« Joining Aon allows us to offer our customers new support solutions, especially internationally. This merger is a source of great pride for our teams and illustrates the relevance of our hyper specialist strategy since our creation. It is also an opportunity for us to benefit from additional human and digital resources in order to continue to respond as closely as possible to the specific needs of Tech companies. I am very pleased to personally accompany this new stage in the history of Apollo while retaining responsibility of operational structures. »
Nicolas Ibanez, Associé Largillière Finance :
« Christophe Gautié came to see us with a very clear roadmap: select and meet a very limited list of great broker candidates who will meet several requirements: ensuring sustainability in the teams, integrating an actor who has an asserted development strategy in the fast-growing and demanding tech sector, guaranteeing their clients the requirement of a high level of advice. We are very pleased that Christophe Gautié and his collaborators can continue their growth journey within Aon.»
With more than 35 employees, a strong international presence and nearly 30 operations in 2022, Largillière Finance confirms its leader position in small and midcap in France.
2021 – Fusions & Acquisitions – Opérations Small Cap – Banque d’affaires – France 2021 – Capital investissement – Opérations LBO Small Cap – Banque d’affaires – France
Investment Banking: Growth Dynamics: Silver Trophy 2022 M&A Advisory: Retail & Consumer Goods, FIG, TMT, Industry: 2021 Silver Trophy.About Largillière Finance
With offices in Paris, Nantes, Brussels and Geneva, Largillière Finance is an independent investment bank dedicated to assisting managers and shareholders of small and medium-sized companies with their capital transactions: company sales and acquisitions, financing (capital and/or debt), financial engineering (valuation, etc.) and financial strategy.
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