Our Mission
Turn long-term savings into entrepreneurial capital for businesses and their regions.
Our purpose
La Compagnie de Sully turns French long-term savings into entrepreneurial capital to pass on, develop and sustain businesses essential to the economic sovereignty of their regions. We support profitable French SMEs and mid-sized companies with distinctive know-how and essential economic functions.
Our role
Secure acquisition financing
Provide the equity buyers need and mobilise bank financing suited to each project.
Support the handover
Build trust between the seller, the buyer and their teams to preserve the company’s history and know-how.
Support long-term development
Help business leaders grow the company, strengthen management autonomy and prepare future successions.
The challenge
A wave of successions
500,000+ businesses to be passed on over the next ten years, with 25% of SME and mid-sized business leaders aged over 60. Supply and demand already exist and are set to grow with demographic change.
Direct capital to the need
30% of buyers encountered difficulties financing their acquisition, rising to 44% for employee buyers. The challenge is to direct capital towards the specific needs of business succession.
Selection matters
Profitable, essential businesses remain underserved. Careful selection helps preserve know-how, jobs and decision-making within their regions.
Financing figures: French Ministry of the Economy, 24 April 2026.
A name, a conviction
Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully (1560–1641), superintendent of finances to Henry IV, helped rebuild France by supporting its productive economy. His name reflects our conviction that economic sovereignty is built within businesses and their regions.
“Tillage and pasture are the two breasts of France.”— Duc de Sully
What brings us together
The productive economy
Support businesses that produce, build and pass on their know-how.
Regional roots
Preserve jobs, skills and decision-making close to the businesses themselves.
Sovereignty through succession
Enable buyers to continue developing mature, profitable French companies.
A lasting community
Bring investors, buyers, sellers and businesses together around a shared long-term project.
Our five convictions
IFinance entrepreneurial succession
Mobilise French long-term savings — supplementary pensions, life insurance and patient capital — to pass businesses from one generation to the next.
IIOrganise the handover
Connect sellers, buyers, investors, banks and experts to support succession beyond the transaction itself.
IIIIdentify essential businesses
Profitable SMEs and mid-sized companies with recurring EBITDA and functions and know-how essential to their regions.
IVUse AI to make more time for people
Enhance sourcing, analysis and monitoring to spend more time with business leaders, teams and their projects.
VBuild value that can be passed on
Base returns on performance and readiness for the next succession, creating options for progressive or full exits.
Experience grounded in the field
The partners and their network bring experience across the acquisition journey, from identifying opportunities to supporting growth after the handover.
Assess before investing
50+ companies reviewed or met, 100+ potential buyers identified and 10+ sectors covered.
Structure and execute
20+ acquisition, audit or structuring assignments; €200m+ of projects structured and €100m+ of financing mobilised.
Develop after the handover
Support business leaders with strategic oversight, governance and the implementation of new growth opportunities.