GUY VAN DER HEYDEN
Managing Partner
Guy offers a background in investment banking, corporate law, and business advising to potential partners. Previously associated with four investment banking firms — Dumesnil-Leblé Bank, M&A International, Privafin and Icafin — Guy initiated and closed numerous transactions for middle-market businesses. He has also acted as an advisor to boards of directors, addressing shareholder and corporate finance issues. Prior to beginning his career in investment banking, Guy was a banker with Nomura Securities and an auditor at PWC.
His experience encompasses public offerings of debt and equity securities, mergers, acquisitions, recapitalization, joint ventures, private placements, fairness opinions and valuations. Guy has worked in a number of diverse industries including chemicals, food, aviation, fashion, construction, and IT and services.
He is French native and speaks English and Dutch. He has a daughter and a son. He is also President of Foundation Albatros active in favor of mentally disabled adults.
Education
Corporate Finance Program, London Business School, England
Masters in Business Administration - Louvain School of Management, Belgium
Experience
Managing Partner, Icafin
Managing Partner, MandA International
Managing Director, Privafin
General Manager, Aufisco
Managing Director, Loretto Group
General Manager, Dumenil Leble Management
Sales Manager, Nomura Securities
Senior Auditor, Coopers and Lybrand Consulting
Track Record
Sale of Silidur to Rynol (construction)
Sale of Olivier Strelli to Ever Capital (Fashion)
IPO of Fidelity Net Marketing (direct marketing)
Capital increase of Intercultures on Luxembourg stock market with a EUR 50m transaction to Bollore Group
MBO of Sepulchre (specialty chemicals)
Fundraising of Xylowatt and Greenwatt (green energy)
Fundraising Selinko (IoT)
Sale of Bureau van Dijk ERP division to SOA People (ERP software)
International Experience
United Kingdom (GB)
Japan (JP)
Sector Expertise
Information technology
Media
Keywords
Advised Deal
Buy side mandate
The Belgian group, Efficy, has just acquired the Spanish software CRM developer SumaCRM, in an operation advised by ONEtoONE Corporate Finance on the side of the buyer. The acquisition fits into the growth strategy of the Belgian group, which already has more than 20M turnover and a portfolio of more than 2,400 customers in 33 countries.
Sell side mandate
The Benelux team of ONEtoONE Corporate Finance has successfully advised on a sell-side operation the owner of Ciné Télé Revue, Michel Leempoel, on the sale of Ciné Télé Revue. The company is the french-speaking Belgium’s preferred TV magazine. The objective of this deal is to help the magazine adapt to changing media consumption habits. As a new part of Rossel, Ciné Télé Revue will become the corner stone of the latter’s, movie, people and lifestyle content offer.
Buy side mandate
Distec International is a company specialized in value added distribution created in 1987 and active in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Since he joined the company as Managing Director in 2012, one of Quentin Janssens main focus has been on bringing Distec to the age of e-commerce. ONEtoONE Corporate Finance Benelux served as advisor to Initiative & Finance, a French MBO fund, for the structuring and the financing of the MBO transaction.
Private Placement
Distec International is a company specialized in value added distribution created in 1987 and active in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Since he joined the company as Managing Director in 2012, one of Quentin Janssens main focus has been on bringing Distec to the age of e-commerce. ONEtoONE Corporate Finance Benelux served as advisor to Initiative & Finance, a French MBO fund, for the structuring and the financing of the MBO transaction.
Sell side mandate
ONEtoONE Corporate Finance advised in the sale of the shares of Erasme Hotel SA. This company is running a 81 rooms hotel and a residence of 9 apartments. The hotel is located next to the biggest university hospital in Brussels, called Hôpital Erasme. The buyer is a Belgian hospitality Group that has already 10 hotels and is the biggest Accor franchisee in Belgium.