NextStage AM is proud to announce the appointment of Arthur Vignéras as Director of Participations
Paris, February 17, 2022,
NextStage AM announces the appointment of Arthur Vignéras as Director of Investments within the unlisted investment team. Arthur Vignéras participated in more than 15 operations investment and disposal in France and abroad.
After beginning his career at Crédit du Nord, within the Department of Large Companies (DGE), Arthur Vignéras then worked as an analyst for the Alternativa platform, attached to the department in charge of studying SMEs. He then joined NextStage AM, also as an analyst, in September 2013. Holder of a master's degree in Corporate Finance from INSEEC Paris, Arthur is also a graduate of the Specialized Master's in International Financial Analysis from NEOMA Business School.
Appointed Business Manager in 2017, Arthur has participated in and led more than 15 investment and disposal transactions, particularly in the companies GreenFlex, First-STPI, Cap Cinéma, FinaLease Groupe Security, Grenade & Sparks, Ecritel Group, Soléo Services, Coorpacademy, Linxea, BOW, NaturaBuy, Atream, Arkose & Co, WiiSmile and recently Eurobio Scientific via EurobioNext.
Arthur is currently in charge of supporting 7 NextStage AM participations: WiiSmile, Linxea, Arkose&Co., Coorpacademy, Litige.fr, NaturaBuy and Eurobio Scientific. In particular, he sits on the supervisory boards / strategic committees of the Linxea, WiiSmile, NaturaBuy and EurobioNext groups.
Effective since January, this appointment comes at the end of an exceptional year 2021 for NextStage AM, which announced during the summer the launch of its new program “Pépites et Territoires” by AXA France & NextStage AM with a target size of €500m. With more than €200m collected in 2021, NextStage AM made 7 unlisted investments and completed 5 disposals over the period.
Biography :
Investment Director of NextStage AM
Holder of a Master 2 in Corporate Finance at INSEEC Paris, Arthur Vignéras, 33, also holds a Specialized Master in International Financial Analysis from NEOMA Business School. After beginning his career at Crédit du Nord, within the Department of Large Companies (DGE), Arthur Vignéras then worked as an analyst for the Alternativa platform, attached to the department in charge of studying SMEs. Arthur Vignéras joined NextStage AM as an analyst in September 2013, before being appointed as an account manager in September 2017.
About NextStage AM :
An independent management company based in Paris, approved by the AMF, NextStage AM, which has cultivated since the beginning in 2002, an "entrepreneur-investor" philosophy, is one of the pioneers and leaders of innovative and patient development capital in France, which has built up, step by step, a multi-strategy Private Equity platform which represents a total of nearly 7 billion euros AUM, directly and indirectly. NextStage AM invests in a limited number of Mid-Size Companies (77 portfolio companies as of 31/12/2021), French and European, innovative and growing, to which it provides entrepreneurial expertise as an investor and strong operational support (integration of innovation, talents, international, external growth). NextStage AM provides long-term support to these Medium-Sized Companies (ETM). It gives them the means to accelerate their development and their capacity for innovation to become the “Champions” of their markets, both in France and internationally, through organic and/or external growth.
In December 2015, NextStage AM was awarded the Gold Award for the best player in development capital in Europe by Private Equity Awards, in 2017 NextStage Croissance won the special Jury Prize for Innovation Assets and in 2019 the Prize for writing, Private Equity category of the 2019 wealth management pyramids. With NextStage Champions III, dedicated to nuggets established in the territories, supplemented by the FPCI Capital Entrepreneur, reinvestment fund dedicated to entrepreneurs wishing to access the strategy developed for institutional investors, NextStage AM completes its development capital investment program and strengthens its capacity for intervention, particularly in the territories.
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