Technology Media Telecom expertise
We support TMT players in their strategic moves towards a sustainable growth through a 360° Investment Banking tailor-made approach (M&A, ECM, and Financing), as an illustration by:
• Unleashing the power of full fiber and bridging the digital divide, we create financing solutions to develop equal access and affordable high quality digital infrastructures;
• Making Data centers more climate friendly by supporting the decarbonization of new and upgraded facilities, ensuring efficient use of power, we support our clients’ commitments to Net Zero.
Benoît Tanguy is Global Co-Head of TMT at Societe Generale. Benoît is a member of the Executive Committee of Societe Generale Investment Banking Division.
In his role, Benoît coordinates the TMT Wholesale Client practice of Societe Generale. He also directly oversees 2 global business lines:
- The TMT Industry Group gathers TMT Corporate Finance professionals. Its mission is to provide strategic-level sector content to C-suite executives, identify inorganic events, develop the origination of all Investment Banking services and execute M&A and ECM mandates.
- The TMT Financing Group brings together TMT Finance professionals. Its mission is to deliver tailor-made Acquisition Financing & LBO, Investment Grade & Non-Investment Grade Capital Markets and Hybrid / Project & Export Finance solution.
Benoît has over 30 years of TMT Investment Banking experience at BNP Paribas then Societe Generale.
Benoît graduated from HEC business school and completed an executive MBA program Kellogg.
Denis de Paillerets is Global-Co Head of Technology, Media & Telecom at Societe Generale. Denis is a member of the Executive Committee of Societe Generale Investment Banking Division.
In his role, Denis coordinates the TMT Wholesale Client practice of Societe Generale. He also directly oversees 2 global business lines:
- The TMT Industry Group gathers TMT Corporate Finance professionals. Its mission is to provide strategic-level sector content to C-suite executives, identify inorganic events, develop the origination of all Investment Banking services and execute M&A and ECM mandates.
- The TMT Financing Group brings together TMT Finance professionals. Its mission is to deliver tailor-made Acquisition Financing & LBO, Investment Grade & Non-Investment Grade Capital Markets and Hybrid / Project & Export Finance solution.
Denis has over 30 years of TMT Investment Banking experience at BNP Paribas then Societe Generale. Before joining the Banking Industry, Denis started his career in audit with Arthur Andersen.
Denis graduated summa cum laude from IEP-Sciences Po Paris and holds a Master in International Management from Paris-Dauphine University.
Data centers
Key facts & figures
Denis de Paillerets and Benoît Tanguy, Global Co-Heads of TMT share their view on how to fund tomorrow’s digital highway in The Banker magazine - article published on February 17, 2023
Rocketing demand for data and further expansion of digital infrastructure will require creative financing solutions in a more challenging environment.
Demand for data is booming, but it can only flow if the digital age’s infrastructure is in place. Whether for e-commerce, messaging, on-demand video, the Metaverse or telemedicine, surging digital growth depends on a rapid build-out of towers, fibre optic cables and data centres. Much of this network across the globe has already been built, but there remains a long way to go.
At the beginning of our careers in the mid-1990s, we helped to finance the early foundations of this infrastructure, working on the creation of Europe’s first cable and mobile operators – 2G as it was at the time. Little did we know that this was the beginning of the digital megatrend it has become.
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