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Silicon Valley Bank collapse in the US, repercussions in the European market?
An overview - by Dennis Dendas What happened? With a size relative to Belfius Bank in Belgium and clients being primarily start-and scale-ups from the tech and biotech sector, the Silicon Valley Bank does not come across as causing a potential systemic risk to the...
Guillaume-Hadrien Marion has joined us as an Associate Partner!
Guillaume-Hadrien Marion has recently joined the Ernest Partners team as an Associate Partner. He is an experienced professional with multiple accomplishments in several dimensions of corporate finance and notable M&A and Private Equity. Guillaume-Hadrien started...
Ernest Partners wishes you a Happy New Year 2023!
2022, another year of growth for Ernest Partners 📈 👍 Our traditional year end message gives you a little insight in what drives us everyday at Ernest 🤝 ✨ We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year and we are looking forward to grow and move...
We are pleased to welcome Laurent Carlier at Ernest Partners !
Laurent Carlier has joined the Ernest team as a part-time Associate Partner. Laurent is an experienced CFO with a strong business focus. He has a strong interest in innovation, investment decisions, financing and Sustainability. He enjoys helping organizations to...
Tali is joining Ernest Partners
This week, Tali Chafai has joined our team as Office Manager! Tali has a long career as Project Manager for the Bank of New York Mellon and bpost. After acquiring organization skills and implementing tools for continuous improvement in both companies, Tali launched...
Welcome Elisa
We welcome Elisa Renard to our team! She has joined Ernest Partners as an Analyst. Recently returned from a 6-month trip to Latin America, Elisa is starting her first professional experience at Ernest Partners. She has a Bachelor degree in Economics and a Master...
Welcome Dennis
We are pleased to announce that Dennis Dendas has joined our team as an Associate. He launched his career at the Investor Relations team of Telenet, a listed Belgian telecommunication player. He provided for the full external financial communication, keeping an open...
Testimonial – Yeti
We zijn heel blij om dit successverhaal te kunnen delen! Lees hieronder de testimonial van Yeti zelf! "Covid was uiteraard een moeilijke periode voor onze sector, en de impact op ons familiebedrijf is veel verder gegaan dan de business alleen. Tot en met 2019 hebben...
How do banks assess your company’s risk?
In the old days, you could meet with your banker over lunch and agree for the next year's funding. Today, this has become unthinkable. In the context of ongoing digitalization and further de-risking, banks continue to build a system that easily evaluates whether you...
Liquidity and borrowing rates for companies, unseen changes in 2022!
It is now a well-known story that for the last two years, the world has been financially flooded by easy and very cheap money from the FED (US) and the ECB (Europe). The FED balance sheet has now reached almost one third of the US Federal debt and both the ECB’s and...
We are pleased to announce that João Neves Esteves has joined our team at Ernest Partners!
João joined Ernest Partners as a Junior Analyst in March 2022. Although having a background in the biomedical engineering field with a BSc in Prosthetics and Orthotics, he has always been driven by the world of Finance and started his career in a Financial Auditing...
Ernest Partners wishes you a happy and prosperous 2022!
Are debt funds a relevant funding source for my company?
When it comes to funding, companies almost instinctively turn to banks. They often have an established relationship with their banks and it is rather convenient – but not as easy as they imagine – to get bank financing. But what banks propose is not always adapted to...
Leasing
Real Estate Your most valuable assets are an important source to maximize your financing through a (finance) lease. But it can be complex. Will you get the best leasing solution? A real estate lease must be customized on a tax, legal, accounting and business-economic...
Belgian Banking Landscape
80 banks are registered with the National Bank of Belgium. Beyond the banks incorporated under Belgian law (28), branches of foreign banks are also active in Belgium, both from the European Economic Area (46) and from non-EEA countries (6). France, The Netherlands and...
The Risk of Becoming ESG-Obsolete
In the past few years, the financial sector started acknowledging the important effects of ESG-related problematics in their long-term investment and credit portfolios. Starting with the alarming pace of climate change, lenders and investors realized the amount of...
Are lengthening supply chains and increasing raw material prices stretching your working capital?
Are volatility in raw material prices and delivery times stressing your working capital facilities? And the banks say “NO” to further increase your traditional banking facilities? Hold on tight a bit longer, help is on its way! Whilst financing receivables is a...
We are pleased to welcome Peter Frijns in our team at Ernest Partners
Peter holds a MSc degree in Finance as well as a MSc degree in International Management. He has gained international experience by living abroad in many different countries during his studies and his internship experiences in finance roles at Adidas, PepsiCo and...
Why does diversity in the workplace really matter?
In our previous post, I shared my experience about being a foreign woman navigating in the Belgian financial job market. In addition, we pointed out how Belgian companies could take a better advantage of the rich cultural diversity that exists in the country, in the...
Is the Belgian Job Market Really Valuing the Country’s Diversity? My experience as a Latin American Newcomer
May was European Diversity Month 2021. The definition of diversity might not be so clear for all, as the concept is becoming broader with time, seeing that globalization and freedom are increasing throughout the world. In particular, diversity in the workplace has...
The impact of ESG reporting on banks and corporates (part 3)
This post is the last of three to be published in our attempt to summarize the impact of ESG regulations. 5. How will it affect corporates? Eventually all companies will be required to report on adherence to ESG policies and to report on climate risk and...
The impact of ESG reporting on banks and corporates (part 2)
More and more clients ask us when and how ESG will impact their activity and the way they interact with their banks. This post is the second of three to be published in our attempt to summarize the impact of ESG regulations for the companies. 3. How does ESG scoring...
We are pleased to announce that David Dumoulin has joined our team at Ernest Partners!
As of today, David Dumoulin has joined the Ernest team as Associate Partner. David is an highly experienced leasing ambassador with a wide network in Flanders. He is skilled in setting up smart real estate lease solutions, sale & lease backs and restructuring...
The impact of ESG reporting on banks and corporates
In our role on capital advisory and debt finance, more and more clients ask us when and how ESG will impact their activity and the way they interact with their banks. This post is the first of three in our attempt to summarize the impact of ESG regulation. 1. ...
Ernest Partners bridged Euro Shoe Group “Bristol” with its investors!
After working together and advising Euro Shoe Group "Bristol"over the past months, the company has successfully established a new capital structure, and secured necessary funding for its ambitious growth plan. Euro Shoe Group is leading player in the Benelux market as...
Philippe joining Ernest Partners will enhance CFO experience in our team
Business is flourishing and Ernest Partners' team keeps on growing! We are delighted to welcome Philippe Fleurier among us. Philippe has experience as a CFO in multiple contexts, particularly in a listed group and in companies under LBO. He has extensive practice in...
Ernest Partners is growing !
We are happy to welcome our two new colleagues into the company
Crowdlending & Crowdfunding
Our view on the evolution of financing through crowdfunding and crowdlending
Ernest Partners is proud to assist Pitaya in its successful Crowd Lending campaign!
https://www.lecho.be/entreprises/services-financiers-assurances/le-crowdfunding-en-pret-et-a-impact-sort-renforce-de-la-crise/10277592 De Tijd 15 januari 2021 - Belgen lanceren Thaiserestaurantketen in vollehorecacrisisJan De Schamphelaere Pitaya wil de komende jaren...
