Silverfleet Capital, the European mid-market private equity firm that specialises in buy & build, has expanded its Paris team with the addition of two new members with the appointment of Alexandre Lefebvre and Cyril Bourdarot.
Lefebvre will become a partner of Silverfleet Capital and co-head the Paris office alongside Maïré Deslandes, who has been at Silverfleet Capital for 11 years and a Partner since 2007.
Lefebvre was until last year a managing partner at IXEN, the former buyout arm of the French bank Natixis, which he joined in 1999 from Arthur Andersen. Lefebvre has an MBA from the Rouen Business School.
Bourdarot joins the firm as an analyst. Cyril was until recently in charge of the US operations of the inspection and certification company Ecocert which he joined in 2009. Prior to that Bourdarot worked for Rothschild based in Paris. He is a graduate of the HEC School of Management.
Jean-Lou Rihon, who has until now been responsible for Silverfleet Capital’s office in Paris, has decided, for personal reasons, to leave the partnership towards the end of 2011 following a hand-over period.
Neil MacDougall, managing partner, says: “Alexandre and Cyril’s appointments are a clear demonstration of our commitment to financing mid-market buyouts in France and our intention to add new investments to our portfolio. I would like to thank Jean-Lou for his assistance over the last 20 years in building up our presence in France culminating in the recent and very successful sale of Histoire d’Or.”
