Elisabeth Preyer

Elisabeth Preyer is an investment professional (Chargée d'affaires / Associate) at Trocadero Capital Partners, a Paris-based independent private equity firm founded in 2012 and regulated by France's AMF. She joined the firm around September 2020 as part of a wave of new hires the firm made to strengthen and diversify its investment team. In her role she works directly alongside firm co-founder Philippe Bruneau, executing and monitoring investments across Trocadero's growth-and-transmission and mezzanine strategies.

Before joining Trocadero, Preyer spent roughly four years at PwC in Transaction Services and Audit, where she worked on financial due diligence for both buy-side and sell-side transactions, serving corporate clients and private equity funds. That transaction-advisory grounding is directly relevant to Trocadero's deal work — diligence, valuation, and structuring of minority and mezzanine positions in mid-market companies. She is a graduate of ESSEC Business School.

Trocadero Capital Partners itself invests through several strategies: "Croissance & Transmission" (minority equity and mezzanine to fund growth and ownership transitions), an "Environnement & Performance" impact/decarbonization strategy, and "Obligations Relance" (long-term recovery-plan financing for French SMEs and ETIs). The firm positions itself as a hands-on, entrepreneurial partner to management teams rather than a purely financial investor. CFNEWS's professional directory associates roughly a dozen deals with Preyer's name over her tenure.

• Invests as a minority equity and/or mezzanine partner in established, profitable European SMEs and mid-market companies (ETIs), typically valued in the ~€10M–€100M range.
• Focus is growth financing and ownership transmission (e.g., management buyouts, family-shareholder recompositions) rather than early-stage venture or seed.
• Sector-agnostic: Trocadero backs strong management teams across communications/media, retail, industrial services, hospitality, and more.
• Emphasis on partnership with management — the firm markets an entrepreneurial, transparency-driven, value-creation approach, and increasingly an ESG/impact dimension via its "Environnement & Performance" strategy.
• Geographic focus is France and continental Europe.