CIC Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIC CIB) offers its clients, financial investors and businesses a comprehensive and integrated range of services designed to support them in their leveraged acquisition processes, both in France and internationally.

  • 20 + years’ expertise
    in acquisition finance

  • 140 professionals worldwide

As a leading player in LBO financing in France, we have long-standing relationships with the main French and international private equity firms in the Mid-cap and Large-cap segments.

We offer our clients – companies and their executives, as well as French and international investment funds – a comprehensive range of products and services covering all their needs, with ‘one-stop shop’ solutions and bespoke services :

  • LBOs ;
  • Succession planning for family businesses, with or without a sponsor ;
  • Business acquisitions ;
  • Refinancing, recapitalisation ;
  • Special situations (including stock market transactions and delisting) ;
  • In Underwriting, club deals or final-stage investments.

Our decision-making processes are flexible, swift and confidential, and we are able to offer up to 100% underwriting.

Our teams comprise 140 professionals in France and around the world (Europe excluding France, North America and Asia), each covering their respective markets, with the Paris-based CIC CIB Leveraged Finance team acting as the centre of expertise and driving force for this business line within the group. Thanks to this geographical coverage, we are able to offer our clients a close working relationship and a long-term partnership.

… combined with an international presence through our subsidiaries and branches

A strong presence in the LBO market in Paris and the regions …

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