Our team

After ten years at the head of a listed company, Stéphane Cohen decided to devote his determination to mergers and acquisitions 15 years ago. Passionate about entrepreneurs’ stories, he founded Wingate with Daniel Ramakichenane in 2011 in order to offer the services of an investment bank to French and European SMEs. After 10 years of loyalty from the vast majority of his clients, Stéphane Cohen will take the lead of the Real Estate vertical in 2021 in order to add another stone to the Wingate edifice.

After starting his career with one of the Big Four, Daniel acquired his expertise in Corporate Finance at JP Morgan. His meeting with Stéphane in 2011 in an M&A boutique gave him the ambition to build with him an investment bank that resembles them: disruptive and capable of adapting to any situation.

Initially a chartered accountant and business school graduate, Pierre Chupin joined the founding partners of Wingate in 2014 to focus on the growth of entrepreneurs. Building on the major successes of the bank in the retail sector of investment banking, Pierre Chupin became a partner in 2018 and notably pilots the development capital/transmission division as well as the development of alternative financing.

With a degree in Corporate Finance from a business school, Gabriel Hainault began his career in Transaction Services and M&A at Bryan Garnier and PwC. He joined Wingate in 2015 to put his passion for Corporate Finance at the service of human-sized companies and is now in charge of the development of the Food & Beverage vertical. A partner since 2019, Gabriel Hainault has set up his own team dedicated to the restaurant sector to complement the work of the generalist M&A analysts.

Joined the team in 2018

Previous experiences :

Emargence – Premium Group

Graduate of the University of Westminster majoring in Corporate Strategy and of the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion

Join the team in 2019

Previous experiences :
DC Advisory – Santander

Graduate of EM Lyon and Sciences Po Strasbourg

Joined the team in 2020

Previous experiences :
French Food Capital

Graduate of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne

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Joins the team in 2021

Previous experiences :
Avolta Partners

Graduate of Neoma Business School – major Coporate Finance

Joined the team in 2018

Previous experiences :
Compagnie des commissaires aux comptes
Order of Chartered Accountants

Graduate of EFAP Paris

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A crisis manager and Chief Restructuring Officer (Grand Prix Restructuring of the Year 2015), and following several years at the head of SMEs and ETIs, Bernard Liatti joins Wingate in 2019 to head the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes office of the investment bank.