Edouard Conques

Edouard Conques is a Senior Managing Director at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world's largest private equity and credit firms, where he is a member of the CVC France team based in Paris. He joined CVC in 2011 and has spent his career there working on French and European private equity investments, rising to the senior managing director level.

Before joining CVC, Conques worked as an associate at J.P. Morgan in the industrials M&A advisory group in London, giving him an investment-banking foundation in deal execution before moving into principal investing. He holds a master's degree in finance from HEC Paris, one of France's leading business schools.

At CVC he has been closely associated with the firm's French portfolio. He served on the board of APRIL Group (as a director of April SAS around 2019–2020) after CVC acquired the insurance-distribution business, and he is CVC's representative on the supervisory committee of LFP Media, the commercial arm of France's professional football league (Ligue de Football Professionnel), following CVC's landmark investment in French football.

• Operates at the large-cap / control buyout end of the market through CVC's flagship funds (e.g., CVC Capital Partners Fund VII), not at seed or angel stage.
• Focuses on French and European market leaders with room for operational transformation — CVC's stated approach with April was to turn "an insurance conglomerate with potential for improvement into a focused and growing leader in insurance distribution."
• Sector strengths visible in his deals: insurance/financial services distribution, healthcare services, and sports & media rights.
• Takes an active, board-level ownership posture — holding board and supervisory-committee seats and pushing portfolio companies toward growth milestones and governance discipline.