Pierre Bon

Pierre Bon is an Investment Director at Turenne Groupe (operating as Turenne Capital Partenaires), where he is a member of the firm's LBO / Capital Transmission team. His mandate centers on leveraged buyouts and ownership-transmission transactions — backing established French SMEs through management buyouts, build-ups, and succession deals — as well as associated development-capital operations. He is based in the firm's Lyon office, covering the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and broader French deal flow.

Turenne Groupe is an independent, management-owned investment firm founded in 1999. By the end of 2023 it managed roughly €1.7 billion for a team of over 80 professionals (around 70 of them investors) spread across offices in Paris, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux and Nantes, and had supported well over 200 French SMEs and mid-market companies. The firm invests across multiple strategies — LBO/transmission, development/growth capital, healthcare (Turenne Santé, >€350m), innovation and venture, hospitality, and real estate — typically writing equity tickets in the roughly €0.5m–€30m range.

As a deal executive on the LBO/Capital Transmission desk, Pierre Bon works alongside colleagues such as Luis Batista on minority and majority equity investments, frequently structured with management and employee shareholding, and often supporting external-growth (build-up) strategies for portfolio companies.

• Invests in established, cash-generative French SMEs and mid-market companies, not early-stage startups.
• Focuses on LBO / capital-transmission situations: management buyouts, succession/ownership transitions, and build-up-driven consolidation, plus related development capital.
• Firm equity tickets generally run ~€0.5m to €30m per deal, taking minority or majority stakes.
• Backs companies with "solid fundamentals" and complementary technical/operational expertise, with a stated aim of helping them become sector leaders — e.g., on the Plisson/Lebrun deal he framed the goal as building "a specialized and versatile building group leader."
• Sector-agnostic within Turenne's broader platform, drawing on the firm's regional presence to source deals outside Paris (notably Lyon / Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes).