Illan Samama
Vice President
Illan Samama
Vice PresidentProfile
Illan has graduated with a Master of Science in Investment Banking from Neoma Business School in 2014 and with a Master in Business Law from Université Paris Panthéon La Sorbonne.
He started his professional life abroad as an M&A Analyst at Natixis CIB APAC (Hong Kong) in 2015 where he worked for Chinese conglomerates and Asian large cap corporates. In 2017, he worked as a Senior M&A Analyst at Verdier & Co (London), a smid cap M&A boutique specialised in Healthcare, TMT and Cleantech on cross-border deals. In 2018 he joined the Transaction Services Department of PwC where he worked on a large number of Due Diligence mandates, both buy side and sell side for corporates and PE funds.
Finaly in March 2022 Illan joined CFI France as Vice President to help develop the Food & Beverage sector.
Our latest transactions
Food & Beverage & Agribusiness
has partnered with
to create a centre of excellence
Transaction details
Vivadour has created an upstream-downstream partnership with Moderato to create Chai Sobre, the first center of excellence for wine de-alcoholization in France
Software & IT Services
has acquired
Transaction details
Smart4 Engineering, a French IT company that leverages its multidisiplinary approach to digital engineering to enable clients in their data journeys, has acquired Closer Consulting, a Portuguese AI and Data Science company focused on the operational and BI demands of their clients