I.C.P.C. Advisory — Cross-border M&A · Strategy

A senior partnership of three — origination, financial diplomacy, structuring, macro intelligence and execution. Former investment bankers at Société Générale, Rothschild, Natixis, Bank of America, and First Abu Dhabi Bank; and previous founders and CEOs of technology companies. The USD 14B+ track record referenced on this site reflects the managing partner’s cumulative deal history across senior institutional roles and I.C.P.C. Advisory mandates.

Michaël Aïssaoui LinkedIn

Managing Partner

Leads the house founded in 1998. From 2006, senior roles in the investment banking divisions of Société Générale, National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Abu Dhabi Bank required the independent practice to be set aside — as bank compliance rules demand — while the deal flow, the relationships and the corridor expertise kept compounding inside those institutions. Returned I.C.P.C. to full independence in 2025. More than 25 years and over USD 14 billion in M&A and capital raises across 32 countries, cumulative across I.C.P.C. mandates and senior bank roles. Author of Financial Diplomacy Handbook — The Cross-Border M&A Field Guide (September 2026). Works in French, English, Russian, Arabic and Italian.

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Martin Tixier LinkedIn

Partner

Veteran macro and credit specialist. Author of Macronomics (3,600+ subscribers), covering fiscal dominance, sovereign risk, and monetary regimes — published continuously since 2009, and on Substack since 2022. Brings deep macro intelligence to every transaction: timing, capital flows, and geopolitical risk embedded directly into deal structuring — not outsourced to a research function.

Sold investment-grade bonds and credit derivatives to European institutional clients. Provided daily market commentary and bespoke relative-value trade ideas, and — at the client’s request — a weekly credit-market overview to the 30-member portfolio management team of a major French loan book.

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The third partner

Origination & Private Capital · Held in confidence

Two of three are profiled above. The third is not — by obligation, and by design.

A former senior banker, he originates and structures across the corridors others find impassable — and advises ultra-high-net-worth principals (USD 100M+), where confidentiality is a condition of the practice, not a preference. The seniority that makes him valuable is the seniority that precludes a public profile — and that is the point: discretion is a discipline we run on our own house before we extend it to yours.

You do not sign to meet him. He joins the first substantive conversation — in person or by video — and his identity and track record are shared under NDA where appropriate.

Capital moves.
Geopolitics shifts.
We close the transaction.

Built for markets that don’t fit the standard playbook.

Four tiers. One integrated mandate.

Calibrated to the counterparty across the table.

Sector depth across nine verticals.

We do not cover regions.
We cover corridors.

Where we work

On the ground, not at arm’s length.

Nine differentiators. One integrated value proposition.

Partner-led, from mandate to integration.

Current pipeline

Access proprietary opportunities.

A record of execution

Partners in execution.

Perspectives

Transactions closed

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Capital moves.Geopolitics shifts.We close the transaction.