SERVING OUR CLIENTS 22 I SOCIETE GENERALE 2014-2015 www.theice.com PARTNERSHIP CEME GROUP A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT Already an established partner of the electrical and climate control group CEME, Societe Generale was able to provide them with a full and wide-ranging service at a key point in their history – the reorganisation of their ownership structure – thanks to the strong synergies between its different business lines. Societe Generale Mid Cap Investment Banking, the Group’s investment bank for small and medium-sized businesses, advised CEME’s managers and minority shareholders on the sale of their shares. Then Societe Generale Capital Partenaires, the Group’s private equity structure which takes minority interests using the Group’s capital, became a shareholder of CEME by investing €1.1 million, thereby considerably deepening the relationship between the bank and their long-standing client. Finally, the Societe Generale retail banking network in France also strengthened its ties with CEME by co-arranging a loan of €15 million as part of this operation. www.ceme-sa.com PARTNERSHIP ICE WORKING ALONGSIDE OUR CLIENTS TO MEET A UNIQUE CHALLENGE “Among all the strategic initiatives implemented by ICE over the past few years, the Euronext share floatation was one of the most unique and complicated challenges we have undertaken,” says Scott A. Hill, Chief Financial Officer of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). “The success of the transaction would not have been possible without Societe Generale’s partnership and expertise.” The stock exchange operator underwent a veritable two-year marathon to create a durable and independent financial operator serving the European marketplaces. With Societe Generale’s support, ICE initially acquired NYSE Euronext, and then “gave back its freedom” to the pan-European Euronext entity via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) while also securing a group of controlling shareholders, approved by the financial authorities of the countries concerned: France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Societe Generale’s teams supported ICE on a daily basis in order to achieve this series of important transactions, which were as high profile and technically complex as they were strategic. Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking played an advisory role in the operation as well as being the global coordinator for the IPO, a transaction amounting to €846 million, in which the Bank itself acquired a 3% participation. INVESTED BY SOCIETE GENERALE CAPITAL PARTENAIRES, SOCIETE GENERALE’S PRIVATE EQUITY STRUCTURE, IN CEME GROUP, ONE OF THE BANK’S LONG-STANDING CLIENTS RELATIONSHIP BANKING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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