About Us

Story

A pioneer in the French mid-market since 1991, Equistone has completed more than 100 transactions in France. In 2025, Equistone Partners France became a fully independent management company, wholly owned by its Partners.

Value

Collaboration 

Our Partners have worked together at Equistone for over 20 years, fostering a culture of trust and teamwork. We bring the same collaborative spirit to our partnerships with portfolio companies, working hand in hand to support growth and transformation.

Ambition

We share the drive of the managers we back. Equistone empowers its portfolio companies to realise their full potential and reach the next stage of their journey.

Transparency

We believe transparency is fundamental to long-term value creation. Through open communication, we ensure alignment with management teams, investors and stakeholders at every stage of the investment process.

Strategy

Our strategy in a snapshot

Equistone has a long-standing experience investing in the French lower mid-market.

Two core sectors
Business and Financial Services
Value-add industrials
Deal size
€10-30m+
Targeted EBITDA
€30-80m+
Equity ticket
Type of deal
Majority mainly

Headquartered in France

Our strategy relies on three key pillars

1.Companies with high potential

We invest in sectors shaped by long-term structural trends, seeking companies whose underlying potential has not yet been fully captured. We work with management teams and provide targeted support to strengthen their companies’ positioning and develop them into assets that fit the strategy of upper mid-cap investors and trade buyers.

2.Strong alignment with the management team

A core pillar of our approach is the close alignment of interests between management teams and our investment professionals. We design our investments to encourage meaningful management ownership, ensuring that leadership teams are directly engaged in the growth journey.

3.Repeatable value creation experience

Our value creation framework, shaped by experience from more than 40 investments, focuses on three key levers: strengthening management and processes, driving buy-and-build strategies, and fostering innovation, digitalisation and transformation to prepare for the next stage of growth.

Our approach to value creation relies on the team demonstrated experience and draws on a network of seasoned former executives and trusted consultants who bring specialised expertise to support specific situations and deals such as strengthening and streamlining finance processes, logistics, e-commerce, carve-outs, and digital transformation.