Guillaume Taurignan

Guillaume is a Vice President in Jefferies' TMT Investment Banking practice in London, focusing on Internet.

Guillaume has been a Technology & Internet banker for more than 8 years and has significant M&A, IPO and Financing transaction experience in the Internet sector and in the broader Technology space.

M&A experience includes the £350m sale of NET-A-PORTER to Richemont, the acquisition of Dress-For-Less by Privalia, the $265m merger between Bigmouthmedia and LBi International, the $340m acquisition of Ilog for IBM, the $1.3bn sale of Francisco Partners' Numonyx to Micron Technology, the £354m merger between SiRF and CSR, the three-way JV between STMicroelectronics, NXP and Ericsson Mobile Platforms, Fujitsu’s €500m acquisition of Siemens’ stake in the Fujitsu-Siemens JV, the €750m sale of Netherlands-based TMF to Doughty Hanson, the disposals of Sagem Mobiles and Sagem Broadband by Safran, the $548m sale of SEZ to Lam Research, the dual-track of SafeBoot concluded by the $350m sale to McAfee and the acquisition of Clubic.com by M6.

ECM experience includes the dual-track processes for SafeBoot, Sophos and Priceminister as well as the IPOs of SeLoger, Moneysupermarket, Axalto, Iliad, 123Multimedia and Meetic on Euronext Paris.

Private Financing experience includes the $55m fundraising for KupiVIP in Russia, the €70m and €90m rounds for Privalia and the $36m fundraising for Groupalia in Spain.

Prior to Jefferies, Guillaume spent 3 years at SocGen in Paris and 4 years at UBS in London.