Experience applied without dilution.

Jean-Benoît Terrasse leads the firm's London office and has spent more than three decades advising corporates, entrepreneurs, and investors on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, privatisations, and contested public transactions across Western Europe, the United States, and a broad range of emerging markets. He began advising independently in 2002 and co-founded Charcot Capital together with Clément Lavallard.

Prepare exhaustively. Remain calm under pressure. Never mistake motion for progress.

Before Charcot Capital he held senior roles at JPMorgan and Baring Brothers, and served as an officer in the French Navy. Jean-Benoît is a graduate of Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris. He works in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Selected transactions

Clément Lavallard advises across the full spectrum of corporate finance, disposals, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, takeover bids and defences, restructurings, and complex special situations, with particular depth in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional mandates. He partnered with Jean-Benoît Terrasse in 2002 and co-founded Charcot Capital.

Cross-border work is rarely about the border. It is about knowing which local assumption will not survive the transaction.

He established the firm's Asia presence in Singapore in 2011 and continues to draw on that network for cross-border mandates from his base in France. Clément is a graduate of Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris. He speaks French, English, and German.

Selected transactions

Marc van den Berg advises on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and leveraged buyouts, and on principal investment alongside corporate and entrepreneurial clients, across both developed and emerging markets in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He joined Charcot Capital in 2008.

I have never taken a number at face value until I have checked it twice myself.

Marc began his career at Lehman Brothers and read Economics and Politics at the University of Edinburgh. He works in English, German, Dutch, and French.

Selected transactions

Thorsten Jabas leads transaction execution at Charcot Capital, running live mandates alongside the senior partners from preparation and positioning through to close. His vantage point is unusual for an adviser. He has been a chief financial officer of high-growth technology and medtech businesses and has built his own venture, and he began his career in 2005 at Lehman Brothers, Nomura, and Banco Santander, rising to Executive Director and placing more than $500m of debt securities.

I have sat on the other side of the table. I read a management team's numbers the way a buyer will, before the buyer does.

Thorsten graduated magna cum laude in Finance from the University of Basel and works in English, German, and French.

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