Sell, buy, raise, refinance. With a partner at your side until it closes.
A partner leads every mandate, from preparation to closing, for owners, family offices and investors across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.
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Built to move with the market.
Markets, capital and regulation move faster every year, and the advice owners rely on has to move with them. That is why we are reviewing how we work and building a new platform: more partners, more asset classes and a wider range of mandates, fully in place in 2027.
Until then, our partners continue to advise clients through their own firms. Tell us about your situation and we will put you in touch with the right one.
Every layer of capital, one partner.
Four ways we help owners and investors through a transaction.
M&A advisory
Selling all or part of a business, buying one, or reducing exposure to an asset.
- Sell-side and buy-side
- Shareholder exits
- Divestments
Capital raising
Equity, hybrid or fund capital, raised from investors whose mandate genuinely fits.
- Fund placement
- Growth equity
- Platform capitalisation
Debt advisory and refinancing
A facility to refinance, a project to fund or a lender to replace.
- Refinancing
- Development debt
- Acquisition finance
Deal structuring and execution
How the price is paid, secured and adjusted, through to the last payment.
- Convertibles
- Earn-outs and escrows
- Securitisation
Why Corvus
Advisers who have sat on your side of the table.
Each mandate is led by the partner with the deepest experience of the sector or asset class, from first meeting to closing, supported by a shared execution team and partner firms across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.
Built, not just advised
Our partners have founded, invested in and run businesses, so we know what an owner is weighing.
Every layer of capital
Equity, debt, hybrid and fund capital under one roof, so the structure follows the deal, not the product.
Candid from day one
If the timing, the price or the counterparties aren’t there, we tell you early.
Who we advise
Owners, investors and the teams that run the business.
Most of our transactions range from €5 to €100 million. Sector-agnostic and selective: we assess every case before taking it on, including smaller ones.
Founders and families
Full or partial sale, succession, bringing in a minority investor.
→Family offices and multi-family offices
Deal sourcing, co-investments, project financing and exits from the portfolio.
→Asset managers and fund sponsors
Fund structuring and raising, platform capitalisation, growth equity.
→Hospitality and real estate owners and developers
Acquisitions, development finance, refinancing and disposals.
→Corporates and management teams
Acquisitions, carve-outs, management buy-outs and refinancing.
→Private and institutional investors
Buy-side mandates, co-investments, structured and convertible instruments.
→The people
Serious about your deal.
Less about ourselves.
Partner · Maxime
The Musketeer
“Returns should come from fundamentally improving the underlying asset, not from relying on the tailwind of a favourable market.”
- Home turf
- Europe
- Off duty
- Never far from the office dog, our unofficial chief of staff.
- Ask him about
- The one hotel he would buy tomorrow.
The serious bit
Real estate, structured finance and M&A
He has spent his career on the capital side of real estate and private-market transactions. After a first experience in finance in New York, he returned to Europe to join two real estate investment groups, where he was responsible for investor relations and for the financing and structuring of acquisitions, raising equity and debt and working day to day with family offices, multi-family offices, private banks and institutional investors. It was in that family office world that he first crossed paths with Nick, with whom he later co-founded a venture platform that finances and takes equity stakes in newly created companies across the DACH region, supporting founders from first capital to scale. At the firm, he leads structured finance and M&A mandates, from development and project debt to convertibles, buy-outs and buy-side acquisitions, in sectors as varied as branded residences, hospitality, mining, healthcare technology and banking, and advises hotel and real estate owners on acquisitions, development and repositioning. He brings to each mandate an investor’s reading of the numbers and an owner’s sense of what is at stake.
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The Swiss Watch
“Patient capital is not slow capital. It just refuses to be rushed into the wrong deal.”
- Home turf
- Switzerland and the United States
- Off duty
- Counts ski runs the way he counts basis points.
- Ask him about
- Why the best deals never reach the market.
The serious bit
Family office investments, real estate finance, growth capital
He began his career at a Geneva multi-family office founded in 1933, with roots in real estate development and private equity. He then co-founded a venture platform, with which he co-led the build-up of a Swiss mortgage and real estate financing firm founded in 2018. The firm now counts more than twenty professionals and arranges large and complex real estate financings for private and institutional clients in Switzerland and abroad. At the firm, he leads family office and real estate finance mandates, and advises families and entrepreneurs on direct investments and growth.
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The Harvester
“Real assets reward patience: you cannot rush a harvest, and you should not rush an investment.”
- Home turf
- Switzerland and Latin America
- Off duty
- Reads crop reports for pleasure.
- Ask him about
- Why agriculture and natural resources belong in a portfolio.
The serious bit
Natural resources, agriculture, commodities
He began his career at PwC before founding a Swiss-based investment manager dedicated to agricultural real assets, with operations in Switzerland and Mexico and one of the first professional investment vehicles for sustainable plantations. At the firm, he leads natural resources, agricultural and commodities-related mandates with a focus on Latin America, and structured and raised a Latin American real assets fund from European institutional investors.
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The Counsel
“A good deal is one that still works on the day something goes wrong.”
- Home turf
- Wherever the deal is
- Off duty
- Argues in four languages. Settles in one.
- Ask him about
- The clause everyone else skipped.
The serious bit
Private equity, M&A, legal and dispute resolution
Admitted as avocat à la Cour in Luxembourg in 2003, he was a partner of a law firm, then group general counsel of a global logistics automation group and a senior lawyer in the litigation and arbitration practice of a Magic Circle firm. In 2017 he co-founded a private equity firm pursuing buy-and-build and growth investments in Central America, Mexico and the Andean region. In Latin America, he has been involved in corporate M&A, finance and real estate transactions, and in an impact venture platform. He works in English, French, German, Spanish and Luxembourgish.
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The Masterplanner
“A destination is decided on the land and in the numbers, long before the first drawing.”
- Home turf
- The Americas and EMEA
- Ask him about
- What turns a piece of land into a destination.
The serious bit
Destination development, masterplanning, hospitality platforms
Co-founder and managing partner of a principal hospitality and destination development firm working across the Americas and EMEA, where he directs strategy and corporate development. He has spent two decades building and scaling hospitality platforms across dozens of countries, with a particular strength in masterplanning, and sits on the board of an international urban design and planning practice. At the firm, he leads hospitality and destination development mandates, from land and masterplan to delivered asset.
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The Locksmith
“Capital follows a plan it can read. Our job is to make the plan readable.”
- Home turf
- The United Kingdom and the Americas
- Ask him about
- Why the stuck projects are often the best ones.
The serious bit
Capital structuring, fund formation, investment execution
Co-founder and managing partner of a principal hospitality and destination development firm, where he leads investment execution, fund formation and partner relations. He previously co-founded a developer that took on stuck and distressed hospitality projects, and began his career in private equity in New York. At the firm, he leads capital structuring and fund formation mandates for hospitality and destination projects.
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Senior adviser · Yves
The Ace
“Design sets the stage. Operations decide whether guests return.”
- Home turf
- Mexico and the United States
- Off duty
- On court before most hotels serve breakfast.
- Ask him about
- The one detail that makes a guest come back.
The serious bit
Hospitality investment, operations and design
Founder and CEO of Namron Hospitality, which designs, develops and operates boutique luxury hotels and restaurants across Mexico and the United States, from Mexico City, Tulum and Los Cabos to Miami and New York. Its hotels are affiliated with Relais & Châteaux, The Leading Hotels of the World and Small Luxury Hotels of the World, and its NÜ restaurant in Tulum was among the first in Mexico recognised by the Michelin Guide. He advises the firm on hospitality mandates, from acquisition and repositioning to operating strategy.
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The Diplomat
“An investor says yes to people first, then to numbers. Both have to be ready.”
- Home turf
- Dubai, between the Middle East and Latin America
- Off duty
- Switches languages mid-sentence. Nobody notices.
- Ask her about
- Which investor will say yes, and why.
The serious bit
Investor relations and business development
Chief Business Development Officer of a Swiss-based manager of agricultural real assets, where she leads investor relations and business development from Dubai. She brings fifteen years of international business development across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with Fortune 500 groups, start-ups, governments and NGOs. She holds a PhD in Bioscience, with executive education from Harvard Business School, Cornell and Erasmus University Rotterdam, and works in five languages. She advises the firm on investor coverage for fund raising and co-investment mandates.
↻ BackConsidering a transaction?
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