Philippe Robert

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Founded as a French subscription-TV channel 40 years ago, CANAL+ is now a global media and entertainment company. On 22 September 2025, CANAL+ confirmed it is in effective control of MultiChoice Group and beginning the integration process. MultiChoice is Africa’s leading entertainment platform, offering a wide range of products and services, including DStv, GOtv, M-Net, SuperSport, Irdeto, and KingMakers. Together, the new combined group has 40 million subscribers worldwide, operates in over 70 countries and has approximately 15,000 employees. CANAL+ operates across the entire audio-visual value chain, including production, broadcast, distribution and aggregation. It is home to STUDIOCANAL, a leading film and television studio with worldwide production and distribution capabilities; Dailymotion, major international video platform powered by cutting-edge proprietary technology for video delivery, advertising, and monetization; CANAL+ DISTRIBUTION, a production and distribution company specialising in creating and distributing diverse content and channels; and telecommunication services, through GVA in Africa and CANAL+ Telecom in the French overseas jurisdictions and territories. CANAL+ also has significant equity stakes in Viaplay (the Pay-TV leader in Scandinavia), Viu (a leading OTT platform in Southern Asia), and UGC, a leading French cinema group.

Crime Science Technology (CST) develops innovative solutions for identifying persons and securing of documents and products. These solutions are based on innovations developed with the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. In the forensic field, our expertise also relies on numerous synergies with public institutions such as the French Forensic Medicine Institute and the INPS (National Institute for Forensic Science). Moreover, it is supported by ongoing exchanges with Technical and Scientific Polices abroad. CST has developed and markets since 2013, the LUMICYANO : the first one step fluorescent cyanoacrylate used for development of latent fingerprints, a deemed revolutionary process. It is already adopted by several scientific polices in the world such as the French Police, the FBI or Scotland Yard. CST is also developing a range of authentication technologies from the development of the synthesis of fluorescent molecules for securing identity titles, trust securities, banknotes and products.

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Founded as a French subscription-TV channel 40 years ago, CANAL+ is now a global media and entertainment company. On 22 September 2025, CANAL+ confirmed it is in effective control of MultiChoice Group and beginning the integration process. MultiChoice is Africa’s leading entertainment platform, offering a wide range of products and services, including DStv, GOtv, M-Net, SuperSport, Irdeto, and KingMakers. Together, the new combined group has 40 million subscribers worldwide, operates in over 70 countries and has approximately 15,000 employees. CANAL+ operates across the entire audio-visual value chain, including production, broadcast, distribution and aggregation. It is home to STUDIOCANAL, a leading film and television studio with worldwide production and distribution capabilities; Dailymotion, major international video platform powered by cutting-edge proprietary technology for video delivery, advertising, and monetization; CANAL+ DISTRIBUTION, a production and distribution company specialising in creating and distributing diverse content and channels; and telecommunication services, through GVA in Africa and CANAL+ Telecom in the French overseas jurisdictions and territories. CANAL+ also has significant equity stakes in Viaplay (the Pay-TV leader in Scandinavia), Viu (a leading OTT platform in Southern Asia), and UGC, a leading French cinema group.

OceanBridge was conceived out of the recognition that the traditional private equity fund has limited appeal for certain types of investors. We seek to replicate the ethos of a traditional merchant bank. OceanBridge offers an innovative approach to principal investing based on the three pillars of flexibility, transparency and the complete alignment of the investors’ interests with those of the managers. OceanBridge seeks out unique investment opportunities in which our personal knowledge and experience creates a distinct advantage. We focus on proprietary opportunities and prefer to avoid auction processes. We will generally seek control positions, but our model provides the flexibility to invest more broadly and across the capital structure. We have considerable investment experience partnering with alongside strategic and corporate entities. OceanBridge is flexible on the size of each investment, we prefer to invest a minimum of €75 million equity in any single investment. Our structure affords us the flexibility to review opportunities in excess of €1 billion. OceanBridge is not industry-focused or constrained, but we have considerable reach and resources across the Industrial, Consumer & Retail, Media and Technology sectors.

Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds across two core asset classes, private equity and credit, with total committed capital of over €90bn+. The Permira private equity funds make both long-term Buyout and Growth Equity investments in four key sectors: Technology, Consumer, Healthcare and Services. The Permira credit funds support businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct Lending, Strategic Opportunities, CLO Management and Structured Credit. Established in 2007, the firm advises investment funds and products which have provided over €24 billion of debt capital to over 300 businesses. Permira employs over 500 people in 15 offices across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.