Sandrine Richard

Sandrine has over 25 years of corporate finance experience mostly in cross-border M&A transactions between French and German speaking markets. Sandrine is based in Paris.

She is specialized in complex mid cap M&A, distressed M&A, and restructuring transactions in France and Germany with a strong Industrial focus. She has complementary experience in fund raising assignments.  Sandrine has a wide network of contacts with Corporates, PEs, Family Offices, Institutional Investors, and other counterparts in France and Germany.

Between 2018 and 2021, she was Managing Director at ODDO BHF responsible for initiation and lead execution of French and German Corporate Finance assignments (sell side, buy side, financing, carve-outs, distressed M&A/restructuring, and equity fund raising). Previously, she had spent over 20 years in Corporate Finance at DC ADVISORY and predecessor CLOSE BROTHERS (based in Paris and Frankfurt). Between 1998 and 2008, she was Partner at CLOSE BROTHERS in Germany with a Food and Beverages focus.

Since 2014, Sandrine is member of the Supervisory Board of a French independent books publishing company.

Sandrine is fluent in French, English, and German. She is a graduate from ESCP Business School (Paris – Oxford – Berlin).