We are proud to support a limited number of clients throughout their journey to building sustainable growth.
As a boutique, we are fully dedicated to your current challenges and future success – Our services include M&A advisory, sustainable Business Development, Scale Up and Turnaround.

Sustainable Development

Defining together the path for a sustainable business growth, highlighting the opportunities for differentiation with eco-compatible practices.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Financial assessment and beyond: emphasizing people. We provide tailored, hands-on support for Buy and Sell Mandates, from strategy to integration.

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Scale Up

Supporting or even joining your team and making sure that the booming growth lasts while the organization evolves and adapts to the new challenges.

Turnaround

Revitalizing distressed businesses through strategic interventions, operational improvements, cost-saving, restructuring to restore financial stability and growth.

Our approach & values

Experience, Agility and Commitment and are at the heart of our value proposition:

  • With 20+ years of operational experience and an in-depth understanding of CEO agendas, we conduct all meetings with you and your business partners. We assess hurdles, cultural fit, provide a clear understanding of your expectations and make the difference between success and failure.
  • We provide a structured and tailor-made approach; we adapt – and iterate on short time frames if needed – the solutions to your challenges.
  • We are a boutique: we take on a limited number of projects each year and you can rely on our loyalty and commitment to your objectives.

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Agility

Commitment

About Amber Partners

Amber Partners is a consulting firm with experienced partners offering expertise in sustainable business development, M&A (small & mid-cap), scale-up and turnaround.

As a boutique, we advise a limited number of clients each year and provide tailor-made solutions, navigating with our clients through transformational journeys to achieve sustainable growth.

Our founding partners are Guillaume Bastien and Alain Parent, both French citizens and true Europeans with extensive experience abroad, mainly in Europe and Africa.

Alain Parent

Alain Parent

Co-Founder

Seasoned CEO/COO with more than two decades in global environments, excelling at building, restructuring and driving profitable growth in operations and sales. Accomplished M&A consultant with expertise in customer marketing and digital transformation. Adept at leading change, most notably in the successful turnaround of a mid-sized perfumery chain. Holistic thinker, connecting stakeholders for sustainable success. Multicultural leader with experience across Europe and Hong Kong. Multilingual (French, German, English) with dynamic, strategic and analytical skills, offering versatile, charismatic leadership and hands-on communication.

Guillaume Bastien

Guillaume Bastien

Co-Founder

With over 25 years’ experience in the construction sector, Guillaume Bastien has had a varied career ranging from project management in Africa to C-level roles in Europe. With an entrepreneurial mindset and expertise in restructuring, management and business development, he has a strong track record of creating value.
He is now co-founder of Amber Partners and specialises in turnarounds, M&A and industrial projects.