Patrice Verrier

Patrice Verrier is a Managing Partner at Abenex, based in Paris. Abenex lists him across Governance, Mid-Cap, Small-Cap, and the Sustainability Committee, with a start date of March 1998.

Verrier was one of the leaders of the 2008 spin-off of ABN AMRO’s private equity division, alongside Hervé Claquin and Olivier Moatti, which made Abenex an independent firm. Before that, he joined ABN AMRO in Amsterdam, where he helped create a global private equity network, and in 1998 joined ABN AMRO’s French private equity team. He participated in the bank’s European investment committee until Abenex became independent.

Originally from Canada, Verrier began his career in Quebec as a chartered accountant, providing audit and tax consulting services, then moved into SME consulting. Abenex lists his education and credentials as an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, and accounting/finance studies at Université Sherbroke.

• Verrier’s own stated approach: “At Abenex, we strive to understand the core fundamentals of our portfolio companies and help them to achieve further growth.”
• Abenex invests as a majority or minority shareholder, typically €10 million to €100 million, in SMEs and mid-cap companies alongside management teams.
• The firm is not positioned as a seed or angel investor in current primary sources; its stated model is private equity for profitable or growth-oriented SMEs and mid-cap companies.
• Abenex targets companies in three themes: quality of life, protection of people/assets, and knowledge/resource optimization.
• Abenex emphasizes operational support: M&A, operations optimization, business development, sustainability, IT, talent management, international expansion, and performance measurement.
• For small-cap investments, Abenex Small Cap II targets French and European SMEs as majority or controlling minority shareholder, with companies valued up to €60 million enterprise value.