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Clearwater advises COLUSSI GROUP on its acquisition of LA SUISSA from Alto Partners

Gareth Iley

I have worked in mergers and acquisitions since I qualified as an accountant. I was a founding employee of Clearwater in 2003, after I had spent time in both transaction due diligence and advising businesses on floating on the UK stock market. Since we formed Clearwater, I have focussed on advising businesses on selling to international trade buyers or private equity funds, especially within the consumer sector. In 2022, I joined the UK board and took responsibility for all aspects of the operations of the UK business.

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Clearwater advises Groupe Louis Pasteur Sante on the acquisition of Sogecler

Richard O'Donnell

I have been a specialist in the M&A consumer and leisure sector for 20 years and I am a Partner at Clearwater. I cut my teeth at UBS Investment Bank, as part of the team advising on large and often £1bn or above transactions across Europe. I then moved to the mid-market and have spent the last 15 years working with some of the most exciting brands in the sector, including Fever-Tree, LEON Restaurants, Fox International, LeMieux, and Goals Soccer Centres. I’ve advised on sales, acquisitions, and take-private transactions in the sector.

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Pierre-Henri Avalle

I joined Clearwater in 2016. Later on, after two and a half years in the mid-cap team, I spent 2 years in Singapore where I worked in a local M&A team covering the Asia-Pacific region. At the end of this enriching experience, I returned to the Clearwater team in Paris, happy to be back in a human-sized team of dynamic professionals, with a reputation for meeting clients’ goals and expectations. During these years, I was able to complete numerous transactions with both strategics and investment funds in Europe and Asia – in the healthcare and real estate sectors on the one hand, and in the leisure and new technology sectors on the other. I am a graduate of EDHEC Business School where I obtained a double degree Master in Management as well as Master of Science in Corporate Finance & Banking. Thanks to its international exposure and its agility Clearwater International allows me to build an international career in finance.

Guillaume Fenni

I joined Clearwater in 2016 after working for Oddo Corporate Finance and for Crédit Agricole CIB in China. I have been involved in transactions across several sectors including: healthcare, with the disposal of C2S Group to the PE fund Eurazeo Patrimoine; real estate, with the acquisition of a portfolio of real-estate assets from ANF Immobilier; and business services, with the disposal of Crèches de France to Sodexo Group. I find the opportunity at Clearwater to help clients on various complex transactions, and working with a structured team of professionals, particularly rewarding and stimulating. I graduated from ESSEC Business School with the Advanced Master’s degree in Financial Techniques and a major in corporate finance.