INVESTMENT PARTNERS LIMITED
Investment Partners "IVPAR", is a financial advisory boutique with an office in Shanghai and a presence in Hong Kong. IVPAR will export its Asian digital advanced exposure and plans to open an European office based in Paris by the end of 2020.
With a combined experience in investment and financial services as well as the establishment of a structured and organized global network based on a tailor-made software dedicated to M&A, IVPAR is leading small and mid-cap domestic & cross-border transactions between Asia and Europe.
We support our clients in the definition and implementation of their strategic operations. Our scope of expertise includes financial advisory on Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Fundraising, Partnership, and Join-Venture. Investment Partners Ltd. is client-driven and long term oriented. We are working with corporations, investors, CEOs, Family offices and governments, mostly in France, Switzerland and Greater China.
The founders came up with a way to extend the reach of multi-sector entrepreneurs and financial institutions through the digitization of an extensive global network of Partners & Ambassadors. Our intuitive IVPAR System ™ is powered with thousands of qualified business contacts with constant and unique deal flow. Our platform centralizes and manages a digital HUB containing investment opportunities and investors with features such as; Automatic Deal Origination, Workflow Monitoring and Contact Management.
The natural geographical extension of IVPAR through the origination and creation of a network of important Partners by country will naturally lead IVPAR to also become a major player in M&A locally, in each of the countries where the network will have reached a significant size.
SERVICES
INVESTMENT SERVICES
To have Access to UNIQUE deal opportunities and selected investors. To receive all the support to bring these to completion.
Use Investment Partners global network to find the right investment opportunities. Thanks to our dedicated IVPAR System™ platform, we will screen your request in our database and deliver you with different sources of funding or selected targets.
BECOME A PARTNER
To have Access to an UNIQUE Tailor-made enabling tool: the IVPAR system™
IVPAR is the first player to open its proprietary system “IVPAR System” dedicated to the M&A to a vast network of professionals
The IVPAR system™ is powered with thousands of qualified business contacts through the “Partners” and “Ambassadors” programs, with constant and unique deal flow.
IVPAR System™ centralizes and manages a digital HUB containing investment opportunities with several features:
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Automatic deal origination
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Workflow monitoring
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Contact management
IVPAR can manage all the phases of a transaction for a client on behalf of the Partner including paperwork, issuance of related documentation, match making, negotiation and final closing of each deal.
THE FOUNDERS
Laurent Dorpe & Yann Poirier
With 60 years of experience of pioneering in investment and financial services, Yann and Laurent combined experience and network often proved to be the turnkey solution to transactions that would otherwise not have been completed as successfully as they did. They came up with a way to extend the reach of traditional financial advisors through the solicitation of an extensive digital network tool to empower the growth of its development.
Laurent Dorpe
With 30 years of pioneering experience in banking, insurance, Investment and international business development, Laurent cofounded Investment Partners, a financial advisory boutique with a clear angle towards M&A and deal origination. Laurent had 17 years of experience in China where he held investment managerial positions.
Laurent has a strong experience in corporate finance as he was the former managing partner and founder of Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity China, the first private equity fund dedicated to China by a private bank, and CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Asia Limited in Hong Kong. He was as well the special advisor of China to the Executive Board of La Compagnie Financière (LCF) Edmond de Rothschild Banque before co-founding Investment Partners.
Laurent has a substantial amount of entrepreneurial experience in the financial world as he was the former general manager of E-Rothschild of LCF Rothschild Banque in France: the pioneer in online private banking, former general manager of PFS in American Express Bank, he created the first service to find the best mortgage rate through different Banks and was the former sales general manager of Cortal: the pioneer in phone banking. Other entrepreneurial stories include founding Easy Life Services in Shanghai, Club 1888 in Hong Kong and Caution Direct Guarantee Company in France with the creation of Caution Divorce.
Laurent was an external professor at Paris La Sorbonne University in Finance.
Yann Poirier
Co-founder of Investment Partners, Yann has lived in several countries such as China, Switzerland and Tanzania. With many entrepreneurial experience on his account, Yann specialized for the past 11 years in cross-border M&A deals for medium sized companies with global exposure.
Yann founded, Swissfi LTD in 2009 in Shanghai a corporate finance entity providing a dedicated platform of investment banking and advisory services to medium size companies with a strong global network and a focus on the world’s most dynamic regions. Typically active in cross-border M&A deals (Finance, Lifestyle, Pharma & Bio-tech, High-tech, Logistic and Industry) and corporate finance missions for local and foreign SMEs.
Yann was CEO of various companies with up to 500 employees (Prestige Video Film, Optima Group and GL Holding) and is currently sitting on several boards of directors. He started up and/or took over many companies including a success story Connect World (the very first Internet company in Paris started from scratch) and in various sectors such as Video Broadcast, Service to person, Multimedia and Biotechnology in Paris, Switzerland and Africa and has participated in many corporate finance operation such as fund raising, M&A, turnaround, private placement and IPO.
Yann began his career while working for Ferri, Ferri and Co in Paris as an asset manager and a stock trader. He assisted the launch of a secondary trade market and was active in various major financial operations for the Investment bank SDBO. Yann holds a MBA from EPFL Lausanne.