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Top 25 Investment banking companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 369 investment banking companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 44,524 professional contacts across them, including 18,303 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers investment banking companies headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest investment banking companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13,168 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, 9th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size in 2023 (The Banker…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 11,823 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 9,976 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We support you over time, during expansion phases and their more challenging periods alike.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 895 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eight Advisory, Europe's leading independent advisory firm specialising in financial, operational and strategy consulting, is involved in transactions, restructuring and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Finergreen is a boutique investment bank dedicated to the energy and environmental transition with in-depth expertise in M&A and complex financing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A specialist in SMEs and mid-sized companies since 1928, Financière de Courcelles advises businesses and their shareholders on M&A transactions and financing solutions, in France…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ADVISO PARTNERS est une société de conseil financier indépendante spécialisée dans les opérations de fusion-acquisition, levée de fonds et ingénierie financière, dédiée au segment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SQUARENESS est un cabinet de conseil financier indépendant qui accompagne les entreprises et les fonds d’investissement dans leurs opérations de transactions, restructurations et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clipperton is a leading international investment bank dedicated to technology and growth companies: we provide strategic and financial advisory to entrepreneurs, corporates, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “M&A Advisory Firm M&A buy-side: Company acquisitions - Guiding companies in external growth strategies - Guiding private persons in acquisition processes M&A sell-side: Disposal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2005, Largillière Finance is an advisory firm with offices in Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Brussels and Geneva.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In Extenso Finance est un acteur de référence dans le conseil en stratégie et ingénierie nancière et dans l’accompagnement et la conduite d’opérations de cession, acquisition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blanche Capital accompagne et conseille les dirigeants de TPE et PME dans leurs opérations de haut de bilan : cession, acquisition, rapprochement et levée de fonds.> Notre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EURALLIA FINANCE conseille les dirigeants et actionnaires de PME et d’ETI dans leurs opérations de cession, d’acquisition et de levée de fonds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 2003, Pax Corporate Finance accompagne sociétés et actionnaires dans leurs opérations de haut de bilan : LBO, cession, acquisitions, financement et refinancement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DDA & Company is a corporate finance advisory boutique specialized in cross-border small and mid-cap transactions with offices in Europe and in the USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transactions & Compagnie a été créé afin d’accompagner les entrepreneurs dans leurs réflexions stratégiques et dans leurs problématiques de réorganisation du capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2013, Eurvad* is an M&A boutique dedicated to advising and supporting corporate finance transactions for SMEs and ETIs: equity sale, acquisition, LBO, MBO, OBO, MBI and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MBA CAPITAL est un acteur majeur du conseil en fusion & acquisition en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Priscus Finance was launched in 2004, focusing on merger and acquisition advisory and dedicated to the financial sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée en LINKERS est une société de conseil indépendante, basée à Paris, Lyon et Marseille, et spécialisée dans les opérations de Fusions-Acquisitions (M&A), de Levées de Fonds…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Translink CF France is a leading independent M&A advisory firm, 100% dedicated to M&A, LBO and fundraising in the smidcap transactions with a strong cross border scope.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jasmin Capital specialises in Private Markets- Financial Investment Advisors on Private Markets (private equity, infrastructure) for family offices and institutional investors -…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in Paris and London, Midcap Partners is an investment bank specialized in Small & Mid Caps.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rochefort & Associés is an independent boutique investment bank based in Paris and Shanghai providing corporate advisory services in the areas of strategic advisory, mergers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: investment banking companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names investment banking companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of investment banking companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name investment banking companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Investment banking companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 369 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among investment banking companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “investment banking companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names investment banking companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among investment banking companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 18,303 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Investment banking companies by metro
- Investment banking companies in Paris238
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names investment banking companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many investment banking companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 369 investment banking companies headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Crédit Agricole CIB, headquartered in Montrouge, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most investment banking companies?
Paris leads with 238 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (12) and Bordeaux (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 18,303 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 369 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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