Call him now “Doctor”, Italian style. Earlier this year, Matthieu Pigasse, 54, welcomed Fabio Gallia, 60, to the ranks of Centerview Partners, the Paris-based M&A arm of the US bank launched in 2006 by Blair Effron and Robert Pruzan. These days, France’s best-known investment banker was between Milan and Paris. And he admits to drying Davos, “the World Forum before the world”. Two years after its launch in the midst of Covid, its “shop” created sparks with about fifty employees in Paris and “Fabio” a financial star on the other side of the Alps. Appointed “senior advisor”the new recruit will evolve into a “Golden Triangle” of cities “I will sail between Rome, Milan and Paris”says Gallia in good French, who for eight years ran BNL, the banking subsidiary of BNP Paribas.
With a resume as long as the Po, Fabio Gallia is a size and the perfect five-legged sheep. “ We have passed each other hundreds of times; Fabio has a double experience in the private and public sector, he has his tickets everywhere », reports Corrado Passera, the former Italian minister and serial entrepreneur, today head of the listed banking group Illimity. “He has an amazing career”surpasses Matthieu Pigasse, who has practiced it since 2005. “We made an agreement to bring together CNP and Fineco in life insurance, the banking group that was leading at the time”, resituates After starting at Accenture, Fabio Gallia held management positions at Capitalia, before becoming head of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the Italian sovereign wealth fund that manages more than €400 billion in assets, before becoming appointed deputy general manager of Fincantieri. , the Italian Naval Group.
Goal: Increase “Deal Flow”
“His arrival was the most natural addition for us,” continues Pigasse, who has already carried out three major operations on the peninsula. Since leaving Fincantieri, the ex-banker has been courted. “I chose Centerview because I knew Matthieu, develops the interested person. I saw what he did in two years, and then there is an impressive rate of talent per square meter and he is very entrepreneurial. »
Matthieu Pigasse’s throw obviously led. “Our success in the last two years comes from here, he pressesWe practice a new type of advice, tailored, without conflict of interest because we are independent and not listed, without any market activity, and we speak to practically the entirety of the CAC 40″.
“There is much to do in many sectors to grow, reposition and transform our businesses”, believes Fabio Gallia. Called to contribute to the growth of the New York house, Paris is now betting on Italy to increase its flow of agreements. Since its launch, the office has advised more than 25 transactions for more than 50 billion euros. Across the Atlantic, its parent firm oversees 70 managing partners, more than 600 employees and has advised on more than $3 billion in transactions since inception.
Source : Le JDD
