Speaker Details
Michel Dyens
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Michel Dyens & Co
Michel Dyens & Co, headquartered in New York and Paris, is a leading independent investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions. Michel Dyens & Co has vast experience in the luxury goods, beauty, spirits and other premium branded consumer goods in which it has concluded numerous landmark deals. The Company advised in such deals as the sale of the Grey Goose ultra-premium vodka brand to Bacardi, John Frieda Professional Hair Care and Molton Brown to the Kao Corporation, the Svedka vodka brand to Constellation Brands, Chambord liqueur to Brown-Forman, Harry Winston to Aber Diamond Corporation and Boucheron to Gucci. The Company also has a strong track record of deals in media and internet, including the deals in which AuFeminin was sold to Axel Springer and Cyréalis to M6, among others. Mr Dyens recently advised the shareholders of the Essie cosmetics business in the sale of the company to L'Oréal, as well as advising LVMH on the acquisition of the Swiss watchmaker Hublot, TIGI (BedHead and Catwalk brands) in its sale to Unilever and NIOXIN Research Laboratories in the sale of the company to Procter & Gamble.
