Simon TOBELEM

Founder and Managing Director, a Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory Boutique established in 2010 and focusing on small to Mid-cap Cross-Border growth transactions (acquisitions, divestments, fund raising, International Business Development).
Headquartered in London, with offices in Paris and Lyon, our team is truly multi-culturall (altogether we master 7 languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, German,Spanish, etc.) and has a very diversified experience in Corporate Finance, Project Management, Financial Analysis, International Business Development and Private Equity.

We partner with an array of investors, including Family Offices around the World and we have representatives in Brazil and Singapore.

CONSEIL ET STRATEGIE has grown in between 2004 and 2010 to become the market leader for small-cap LBO's in France, completing than 60 deals in 6 years.

From a team of 4 people in 2004, the Company grew to more than 20 analysts and Partners and opened several offices in France.

Thanks to unique skills in Financial Engineering and a very hand-on approach in "coaching" Entrepreneurs and Managers from start to end in the process, CONSEIL ET STRATEGIE has been recognized in the market as the most efficient advisor for Entrepreneurs looking to complete a small-cap LMBI with limited resources and still looking a control stake in the company.

RISCO is one of the leading Manufacturers in the World of electronic security systems (access control, intrusion, detetction). More than 100 M$ TURNOVER. Main competitors are GE, Siemens, Bosch, Visonics, Honeywell.

Managing and Supervising several subsidiaries (France, Benelux and Switzerland) but main join is being in charge of acqusitions and strategic partnerships. Also Personal Advisor to the Chairman of the Group.

Boutique Investment Bnak in Paris, specialised in structuring LBO / LBI's for private entrepreneurs. Also dealing with Industrial Capital Development projetcs as well as cross borders transactions. An average of 4 deals close per year, out of 10 -12 for the whole team, ranging from 5 to 80 M€ fund raising or acquisition value.

Additional missions in GOODLAD dealing with turnaround of Companies, mainly industrial. Risk and Security Management and Business Intelligence.

Managing GEODIS subisidiaries in the area and developing its activities in freight forwarding and Logistics services.
Very successful into developping Fully Integrated International Supply Chain projects with Groups such as NESTLE? UNILEVER? BOUYGUES Telecom, Vivendi, Colgate, Nortel, Bull, IBM...

Managing the Group 4 subsidiaries in West AFrica (Ivory Coast Senegal, Cameroun, Nigeria) regarding Financial and then Commercial matters.

Based in Singapore. iN CHARGE OF STRATEGIC financial operations for the Group in South-East Asia: acqusitions, project financing through loans syndications, business analysis, development of new ventures and strategic partnerships, controlling and treasury management.

Creating and Managing a Corporate Finance department within the Bank Investment Bank department.

Initiating private equity deals and structuring a successful fund raising for the first Japanese-Israeli VC Fund (fully vested including 2nd round, with best IRR ever in the Israeli Venture Capitl industry).

Preparing Business Plans, Valuations, Financing schemes, Road SHows, etc.

Manging main clients Investment portfolio (stocks, bonds, forex).