"major industrial companies, thirty-nine registered banks, and two financial companies, Suez and Paribas. It was re-privatized in January 1987 by the Chirac government. In the 1990s, Paribas had an active policy of acquisitions and divestiture. This included selling the Ottoman Bank to Doğuş Holding, and setting up the joint venture lending company Cetelem in Germany. It sold Crédit du Nord to Société Générale and in 1998 it merged with ""Compagnie Bancaire"", renaming the bank with the official name ""Compagnie Financière de Paribas"". In 1999, BNP and Société Générale fought a complex battle on the stock market, with Société Générale bidding"
"Paribas Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A. (Paribas, Bank of Paris and the Netherlands) was a French investment bank based in Paris that in May 2000 merged with Banque National de Paris S.A. to form BNP Paribas. ""Les Pays-Bas"" (""The Low-Countries"") is French for the Netherlands. In the early 1820s, Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim founded a private banking establishment in Amsterdam in his own name. His brother Jonathan-Raphaël created a branch in Antwerp in 1827 before settling in Brussels in 1836. Having married Henriette Goldschmidt, the daughter of Frankfurt banker Hayum-Salomon Goldschmidt, Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim established the Bischoffsheim, Goldschmidt & Cie bank"
"are highlighted below: PAI Partners PAI Partners is a European private equity firm based in Paris, France. It is one of the oldest firms in the sector with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, which started operations in 1872. The firm is characterised by its industrial approach to ownership combined with its sector based organisation. PAI provides portfolio companies with the financial and strategic support required to pursue their development and enhance strategic value creation. PAI manages €13.5 billion of dedicated buyout funds. Since 1994, PAI has completed 65 LBO transactions"
"countries, representing over €48 billion in transaction value. PAI has 62 agents from 10 countries and teams in Paris, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Stockholm and New York City. PAI was formerly known as Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas. PAI LBO Fund, established in 1998, was the first PAI investment vehicle managing third party capital. Prior to 1998, PAI invested exclusively on the balance sheet of BNP Paribas. Paribas merged with Banque Nationale de Paris in 2000. In 1993, Amaury de Sèze joined Paribas Affaires Industrielles as chairman and chief executive officer. Under his leadership,"
"PAI Partners PAI Partners is a European private equity firm based in Paris, France. It is one of the oldest firms in the sector with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, which started operations in 1872. The firm is characterised by its industrial approach to ownership combined with its sector based organisation. PAI provides portfolio companies with the financial and strategic support required to pursue their development and enhance strategic value creation. PAI manages €13.5 billion of dedicated buyout funds. Since 1994, PAI has completed 65 LBO transactions in 11 European"
"Paribas Technologies, and was a subsidiary of the Paribas bank which started operations in 1982 in San Francisco. Partech was co-founded in 1982 by Tom McKinley and Vincent Worms. They opened their French office in Paris in 1996. In 2007, it was taken over by Jean-Marc Patouillaud In 2018 the firm opened an office in Dakar, Senegal and launched its Africa focused fund Today, the Partech team is made up of 50 members who are a mix of entrepreneurs and industry specialists. With its different funds, Partech participated in the development and success of many startups and digital companies, French"
"BNP Paribas BNP Paribas S.A. is a French international banking group. It is the world's 8th largest bank by total assets, and currently operates with a presence in 77 countries. It was formed through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas in 2000, but has a corporate identity stretching back to its first foundation in 1848 as a national bank. It is one of three major international French banks, along with Société Générale and Crédit Agricole. The group is listed on the first market of Euronext Paris and a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market"
"in commissions in foreign accounts for their actions. During Jean-Didier Maille's hearing in the investigation he said ""the management was aware Paribas activities ... Alain Bernard ... Everyone knew he was paying commissions ... We called these activities: Special Affairs."" For its part, André Levy-Lang, CEO of Paribas subsidiary ""Compagnie Bancaire"" said he was not aware of this case and the fees charged by Alain Bernard and Jean-Didier Maille. The abbreviated name Paribas was first created in the beginning of the 60s by the Flemish artist and entrepreneur Bobbejaan Schoepen during a visit from his neighbour and friend Maurits Naessens,"
"Belgian financier Albert Frère to the board of directors of Paribas. The two men discovered an alter ego, applying the same financial techniques: a friendly investment in substantial firms, some of which were experiencing financial hardship. Desmarais owned about 15% of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, a Belgian holding company, which in 2001 acquired a 25% interest in the German media company Bertelsmann, whose subsidiaries include BMG and Random House (the German company Bertelsmann bought the 25% back in July 2006). Groupe Bruxelles Lambert currently holds positions in large companies based in Europe including: Imerys, LafargeHolcim, adidas, SGS, Pernod Ricard, Umicore and"
"BNP and Société Générale fought a complex battle on the stock market, with Société Générale bidding for Paribas and BNP bidding for Société Générale and counter-bidding for Paribas. BNP's bid for Société Générale failed, while its bid for Paribas succeeded leading to a merger of BNP and Paribas one year later on 22 May 2000. Historically, Paribas has been actively involved in the financing of oil markets and had strong relations with Standard Oil. This was one of the reasons that Paribas was chosen in the funding agreement in the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme. The technique of oil pre-financing consists of"
"who was a director of ""Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas"" in Belgium at the time. Paribas Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A. (Paribas, Bank of Paris and the Netherlands) was a French investment bank based in Paris that in May 2000 merged with Banque National de Paris S.A. to form BNP Paribas. ""Les Pays-Bas"" (""The Low-Countries"") is French for the Netherlands. In the early 1820s, Louis-Raphaël Bischoffsheim founded a private banking establishment in Amsterdam in his own name. His brother Jonathan-Raphaël created a branch in Antwerp in 1827 before settling in Brussels in 1836. Having married Henriette Goldschmidt,"
"BNP Paribas, resulting in BNP Paribas Fortis), but remained its largest stockholder. Starting in the end of the 1980s, the Suez company started to obtain a large portion of the 's shares, which resulted in the full take-over of the company in 1998, by . The following people were governors of ""Société générale"" during its existence as an independent company: Société Générale de Belgique The (; literally ""General Company of Belgium"") was a large Belgian bank and later holdings company which existed between 1822 and 2003. The ""Société générale"" was originally founded as an investment bank by William I of"
"to sidestep nationalization in 1945 and Paribas was able to take full advantage of the legislation of 2 December 1945 and 17 May 1946, which ratified the status of a full-service bank. The bank was thus poised to develop its activities freely in commercial banking for French companies and, before long, on an international scale. The 1960s to 1980 saw Paribas start an investment bank in New York which it expanded into an internal banking network with offices in a number of countries and started an asset management services to private and institutional clients. Claude de Kemoularia was an important"
"headquarters, 16 rue de la Faisanderie, in Paris. Union des Fabricants Union des Fabricants (Unifab) was created by several pharmaceutical manufacturers in 1872, when they realised that their products were being counterfeited in Germany and came together to create the ""Charte de l'Union des Fabricants"". Unifab began working for the international protection of intellectual property and for the fight against counterfeiting. It took part in drawing up the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) and the Madrid Arrangement concerning international trademark registration (1891). Encouraged by these successes, it helped to draw up a large number of bilateral"
"positions in: Pargesa Holding Pargesa Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland (Pargesa stands for ""Paribas-Genève S.A."") holds significant positions in two large companies based in Europe. In accordance with a 1990 agreement, Power Corporation of Canada and the Frère-Bourgeois/CNP Groups jointly control the company through the Dutch holding company Parjointco NV. The current form of Pargesa stems from the events surrounding the nationalisation in 1982 of the ""Compagnie Financière de Paris et des Pays-Bas"" (Paribas) under the socialist government of Pierre Mauroy. Pargesa Holding S.A. has a stake in Imérys and controls Groupe Bruxelles Lambert website, a holding company that has"
"Union des Fabricants Union des Fabricants (Unifab) was created by several pharmaceutical manufacturers in 1872, when they realised that their products were being counterfeited in Germany and came together to create the ""Charte de l'Union des Fabricants"". Unifab began working for the international protection of intellectual property and for the fight against counterfeiting. It took part in drawing up the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883) and the Madrid Arrangement concerning international trademark registration (1891). Encouraged by these successes, it helped to draw up a large number of bilateral treaties to increase the protection of industrial property"
"Paribas led or participated in government loan issues, and in share or bond issues for French and foreign private companies. Most noteworthy among these were: During World War I it helped the French government raise funds through war loans, the 'Bons de la Défense Nationale', and it played its part in negotiations to open credit accounts for the French Treasury in Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. It also helped to raise finance for the weapons industry (Compagnie Nationale de Matières Colorantes et de Produits Chimiques). The impact of inflation during the 1920s, combined with the reconstruction effort and moves"
"decided that Fortis Bank Belgium and Fortis Insurance Belgium should not become property of BNP Paribas. However the acquisition was completed and BNP Paribas took 75% share holding and renamed the new subsidiary BNP Paribas Fortis. After this only Fortis Insurance International was left in Fortis Holding and this was renamed as Ageas, a business that had Insurance all over Europe and Asia. The remaining Fortis Bank Netherlands was in the hands of the Dutch Government which merged it with other ABN AMRO holdings it already owned under the name ABN AMRO. In May 2009, BNP Paribas became the majority"
"into effect on 1 January 1946 nationalized the four leading French retail banks: Banque nationale pour le commerce et l'industrie (BNCI), Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris (CNEP), Crédit Lyonnais, and Société Générale. In 1966, the French government decided to merge ""Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris"" with ""Banque nationale pour le commerce et l'industrie"" to create one new bank called ""Banque Nationale de Paris"" (BNP). The bank was re-privatised in 1993 under the leadership of Michel Pébereau as part of a second Chirac government's privatization policy. Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas) was established on 27 January 1872, through the"
"Paribas. In Summer 2009, the company changed its name to BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory and Property Management Ltd Atisreal BNP Paribas Real Estate, formerly Atisreal, is a European commercial property consultancy company and subsidiary of BNP Paribas with around 2,600 employees in 51 cities. Its headquarters were in Levallois-Perret, France. In June 2009 the Atisreal brand was dropped and the BNP Paribas Real Estate brand replaced it. Atisreal was formed in 2003 when the Vendome Rome Group acquired three leading European surveying firms: Auguste-Thouard in France, Müller in Germany and Weatherall Green & Smith in the UK. In 2006,"
"transformations, including those during times of crisis. In 1974, while the Forges were in the hands of the Dessy family, the Germeau-Bonnet sold their stake to Cobepa alse, the holding company of the French group Paribas, in which they became one of the Belgian shareholding families until the takeover bid by BNP PARIBAS in 2000. Hubert Bonnet grew up between Rhode-Saint-Genèse and Knokke. After spending his first years at the Cardinal Mercier College in Braine-L'Alleud, he began his postgraduate course at the European Business School in Brussels. He has always been involved in the business world, choosing the career path"
"BNP Paribas Fortis BNP Paribas Fortis is an international bank based in Belgium and is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. It was formerly, together with Fortis Bank Nederland, the banking arm of the financial institution Fortis. After the ultimately unsuccessful ABN-AMRO takeover, the subprime crisis and management mistakes led to the sale of the Dutch and Luxembourg parts of the banking branch to the Dutch and Luxembourg governments. Fortis Bank itself was first partly bought by the Belgian government (for €4.7 billion), then fully purchased by the government and sold to BNP Paribas. BNP Paribas Fortis is the largest bank"
"Co, fought a fierce and ultimately successful battle to acquire British Aluminium. This battle is now remembered as the ""Aluminium War"". The bank gained clients and grew rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s. In the early 1970s, S. G. Warburg entered into a U.S. joint venture with Paris-based Paribas (Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, prior to the bank's nationalisation in 1982) named Mercury Securities. In 1974, S. G. Warburg and Paribas took a 40% interest in A.G. Becker & Co., a U.S.-based brokerage. Although the joint venture initially provided an international dimension for its three members, the relationships soured"
"Pargesa Holding Pargesa Holding S.A. of Geneva, Switzerland (Pargesa stands for ""Paribas-Genève S.A."") holds significant positions in two large companies based in Europe. In accordance with a 1990 agreement, Power Corporation of Canada and the Frère-Bourgeois/CNP Groups jointly control the company through the Dutch holding company Parjointco NV. The current form of Pargesa stems from the events surrounding the nationalisation in 1982 of the ""Compagnie Financière de Paris et des Pays-Bas"" (Paribas) under the socialist government of Pierre Mauroy. Pargesa Holding S.A. has a stake in Imérys and controls Groupe Bruxelles Lambert website, a holding company that has major share"
"Saint-Gobain Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety of construction and high-performance materials. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Since the middle of the 17th century, luxury products such as silk textiles, lace and mirrors were in high demand. In the 1660s, mirrors had become very popular among the upper classes of society: Italian cabinets, châteaux and ornate side tables and pier-tables were"
"1894. In the commercial sector, in 1909 he became president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas S.A. (as Paribas was then known) following the death of the bank's remarkable founder-president, Eugène Goüin, who was a distant kinsman. Renoard was also the first president of the , set up in 1907 in the wake of the Algeciras Conference. His other directorships, embraced the banking and industrial sectors, and included the Banco Español de Crédito, the Banque de l'Indochine, the Paris-Orléans Railway Company and the automobile manufacturer, Lorraine-Dietrich. Jules-Léopold Renouard died aged 77. The death was registered at the prefecture"
"Thereafter, the firm raised debt for U.S. Gypsum and later issued preferred stock for Hupp Motor Works. By 1919, the firm had opened offices along the west coast in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle as well as in New York City and St. Louis. Also in 1919, Becker arranged a $50 million of notes for Sears, Roebuck & Co.. Julius Rosenwald, part-owner of Sears, had tapped his friend Becker to lead the offering. In 1974 A.G. Becker entered into a merger with Warburg Paribas, a newly formed American joint venture between London-based S.G. Warburg and Paris-based Paribas (Compagnie"
"and overseas, although in 1889 there was a crisis in which it was temporarily placed in receivership. In 1945 the CNEP was nationalized, and in 1966 merged with BNCI to form the Banque National de Paris (BNP), which in turn was merged with Paribas in 2000 to form BNP Paribas. The French Revolution of February 1848 caused a general failure of confidence in paper assets such as shares, bonds and bank deposits, and a rush to convert these assets to gold and silver. The government was forced into emergency measures such as suspending payment on maturing treasury bonds, closing the"
"plc has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Unilever N.V. has a primary listing on Euronext Amsterdam and is a constituent of the AEX index. The company is also a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. In 1872, Antoon Jurgens, founded the first margarine factory in the world in Oss, Netherlands. Then, in 1888, Samuel van den Bergh, also from Oss, opened his margarine factory in Kleve. These two companies merged in 1927 to form Margarine Unie. The initial harvesting of palm oil was from British"
"Grupo Agbar Sociedad General de Aguas de Barcelona, SA. (Agbar) is a Spanish company dedicated to services, distribution or treatment of water. The company was founded in 1867 in Liège as ""Compagnie des Eaux de Barcelone"" by an investor from France and Spain. The group is present in almost all the continents as North America, South America, Asia and Europe. The headquarters are in Barcelona and the chairman is Àngel Simon i Grimaldos. Agbar is constituted by more than 230 companies and with more than 140 years of history. Agbar is specialized in the services of health, certification, construction and"
"in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The joint venture was plagued by competition between Warburg and Paribas, as well as cultural conflicts between French, English, and American executives. Although Warburg had originally planned to buy out Paribas, after Siegmund Warburg's death, Paribas bought out Warburg's interest in the joint venture in early 1983. Following the departure of Warburg from the joint venture, the firm was renamed A.G. Becker Paribas. A major participant in the ""Big Bang"" reforms of the 1980s under the leadership of its Chief executive Sir David Scholey, it acquired stockjobber Ackroyd & Smithers, stockbroker Rowe &"
"PAI developed a strategy in private equity that capitalized on the team's familiarity with industrial sectors. Paribas Affaires Industrielles led the €610 million buyout of Danone’s pasta and condiment unit in 1997, at that time the largest leveraged buyout ever completed in France. The following year, the firm finalized fundraising for its first third party investment fund, raising €650 million of investor commitments. PAI completed a full spinout from BNP in 2000 and the following year raised a new €1.8 billion private equity fund. In September 2009, Lionel Zinsou became CEO and Chairman of the firm. In 2015 Michel Paris"
"Paribas logo since 2000 (designed by Laurent Vincent under the leadership of the Communications Director, Antoine Sire) is called the ""courbe d'envol"" (curve of taking flight). The stars allude to Europe and universality. The transformation of the stars into birds conveys openness, freedom, growth, and the ability to change and adapt. The shape and movement of the curve places the logo in the universe of life. The green square symbolises nature and optimism. In 2015, the BNP Paribas Group was organized around two business areas: Retail Banking & Services, a global network of nearly 7,000 branches, comprising Domestic Markets and"