Nicolas Mouté Email & Phone Number

Paris, FR

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

Paris Area, France

In July 2018 I was appointed CEO of Simaero to transform the company into a successful international scale-up, under the ownership of Rive Private Investment.In the following 6 years, the company embarked on a deep transformation journey:* EBITDA x4* Complete management overhaul* Innovation and digitalization* Deep internal transformation and structuring*.

Paris Area, France

Ixens is an advisory firm focused on mid-size companies (turnover €20-300m) with business potential (brand name, innovation capacity, quality assets...) but with limited profitability primarily due to balance sheet or shareholding structure issues. We advise historical shareholders or lenders, to recapitalize the company and work with the management team.

Paris Area, France

Courses in Corporate Finance and in Private Equity, to students of the Grande Ecole, Master and MBA programs.

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Through the acquisition, turnaround and merger of 3 independent companies, we have created what became in 2013 a leading provider of subsea inspection, repair, maintenance and light construction services to the global oil and gas industry, with over US$400 million of sales, close to 1,000 employees and active presence in the four main regions for offshore.

The majority of my time was focused on driving the creation of Harkand. In parallel I was involved on other special and restructuring situations, in particular in the shipping industry.

The majority of my time was focused on acquiring and then supporting Fraikin (see below) as well as the restructuring of CPI (see below). In addition, I spent considerable amount of time diligencing and negotiating several transactions in the private health sector, although none eventually materialized.

Shortly after my joining CVC, we acquired Fraikin, France's (and Europe's) largest truck leasing company. Whilst a robust company with a long track record and a quality staff and management, Fraikin was shortly faced with the collapse of financial markets which started in the summer of 2007, followed by the economic downturn.Despite these adverse.

In 2008, CPI, Europe's largest black and white book printing company, which had been acquired in 2005 by CVC jointly with Cognetas, went into financial difficulties.Together with Chairman Patrick Verschelde and CEO Pierre-François Catté, we restrutured the company. My focus was on conducting negotiations with banks which led to the cancelation of 2/3 of.

We started the French team in 2001, in a context where ING had limited if any activity in this segment globally. By 2006, it had become one of the leading leverage finance bank in France having then arranged c. 25 transactions and underwritten c. €6 billion of debt over 5 years. In 2005 I was appointed as Managing Director in charge of the Paris office.

Together with 2 partners from BCG and L'Oreal, we initiated a project aimed at developping an elaborate content and e-commerce suite of websites focused on the DIY market. The project was eventually aborted due to lack of sufficient fundraising.

I participated to a number of strategy and organizational missions for large French and UK corporates.

Toulon Area, France

As Watch Officer on an Amphibious Assault Ship I participated to various military operations and exercises, in particular in Africa (Senegal) and Adriatic Sea. During his watch, a Watch Officer is in charge of the whole ship including navigation, helicopter and amphibious craft operations.

Msc, Economics And Financial Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Golf team, X Projets (junior consulting association)

Education record

Lycée et classes préparatoires