Smooth interface, competitive pricing, European sovereignty. What else?
CIC Conseil is the M&A advisory arm of one of France's leading banking groups, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale.
Their teams advise listed companies, family-owned businesses, and investment funds on French and international mid-cap transactions, covering disposals, acquisitions, and complex financial structures.
With around 75 professionals and offices across France, they are one of the most established M&A advisory teams in the country. Their clients expect discretion, speed, and execution. So do their tools.
In January, they opened their first data room with Entropia.
By mid February, their teams had come back for four more.
Antoine Chevreau, Director at CIC Conseil, put it simply:
"The platform offers a level of features comparable to global leaders, with a very smooth interface, competitive pricing, and European data sovereignty on top. Our teams and clients adopted it without any difficulty."
Three things stand out in that feedback
The first is functional parity. CIC Conseil teams know what a data room needs to do under pressure: granular access rights, a Q&A that holds up at any hour, no surprises when a deal is running hot. Hearing that Entropia meets that bar from a team that runs these transactions daily is the most meaningful benchmark we have.
The second is pricing. M&A teams shouldn't have to negotiate their way through opaque billing mid-transaction. Entropia's pricing is transparent from the start, and stays that way.
The third is European data sovereignty. M&A data is among the most sensitive that exists: unpublished financials, acquisition strategies, personal data of executives. Keeping that data on European infrastructure is not a marketing point. For an increasing number of firms, it is becoming a requirement.
We are proud to have earned the trust of CIC Conseil's teams, and we are just getting started.