François Besson Email & Phone Number

Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

In Extenso Finance is a French leading M&A Boutique on small-cap market :• Top 10 M&A French M&A Boutique in terms of operations (∼ 50 operations per year)• Generalist M&A Boutique, with a preference for IT & Manufacturing companies• +7 locations across FranceMember of the Lyon office. As an analyst, my main tasks are :• Preparing Strategic and Financial (valuation, financial package) analyses• Redacting documents (Teaser, Memorandum, Datapack, process letter, NDA)• Managing the commercial links with targeted actors (corporate, funds, person), including negotiation

Lyon, France

Member of the "Growth Capital" team (2 billions € AUM, 200 companies in the portofolio, sector agnostic) - Lyon office• Financial Analysis and Valuation of targeted companies• Strategic analysis of companies (owned or targeted), and their markets• Designing presentations and board memorandums for investment decision

Caviar Magazine is a French quaterly magazine at the crossroads of football, culture and society.• Strategic analysis of print sport press in Europe• Studying the business plan and suggesting ideas to securing the periodical future• Framing, searching, and contacting advertisers, creating the commercial speech

Lyon, France

• Strategic analysis for customer companies (industry et corporate)• Researching, contacting and Q&A with targets (sell-side and buy-side)• Financial Analysis & Corporate Valuation• Conceiving documents (Pitch, Primary Support, Teaser, Memorandum)

• Analysing the car-sharing sector in France• Creating user city-guides for the cities covered by the app• Creating fidelity programs (criteria & rewards)

Lyon, France

Scientia emlyon is the student association of sciences and discoveries at emlyon.• Preparing previsions & doing financial statements • Securing the viability of the association • Integrating this 1-year-old association among the school life

Lombardia, Italy

• Creating cash flow files to monitor them• Evaluating cash flows for 2018-2020, estimating them for 2021• Summing up the contracts with banks to select the bank partners and reduce bank costs

Programme Grande Ecole - Master En Management

Major in Finance & Strategy : Corporate Finance, Accounting, Financial Diagnosis, Financial Macroeconomics, Financial Analysis.

Academic Exchange - Masters Degree, Finance & Strategy

Major in Corporate Finance & Strategy : Advanced Finance, Corporate Valuation & Financing, Seminar of Business Strategy Minor in European.

Preparatory Class, Business School

• Intensive program to prepare a competitive exam to go to the French best business schools • Program diversified with Mathematics.