Irene Martín

Team member
Partner
Professional with 15 years of international experience in strategic consulting and investment banking, specialized in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) processes within the mid-market segment.
Co-founder and Managing Director of Acuity-One, an M&A boutique with both national and international focus in the mid-market space. She has led transactions ranging from €30 million to €250 million across sectors such as Retail, Pharma, Transportation, Engineering, B2B, Technology, and others.
She has a strong track record advising senior-level (C-level) clients on both sell-side and buy-side transactions, managing all stages of the M&A process end-to-end: opportunity sourcing, strategic analysis, due diligence coordination, negotiation of agreements (SPA/SHA), and deal closing.
She has led multidisciplinary teams and worked closely with investment funds, industrial groups, and legal and tax advisors. Previously, she held senior positions at leading firms as Acuity Corporate Partners and Initium Corporate Finance (BCMS). At the Adecco Group, from its headquarters in Zurich, she participated in transformation and strategic consulting projects across EMEA and LATAM.
She holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Alcalá (UAH) and a Master’s in Executive Development and Auditing from ICADE. She is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English.
Augustin Feroldi

Team member
Director
Augustin started his career in 2015 working within the M&A / Corporate Development team of Alten (ATE.PA). During his first two years at Alten, Augustin worked as an Analyst, supporting the Managers in the deals’ execution at the company’s headquarters in Paris. Since August 2017, Augustin is based in Madrid, where he led the M&A activities for Alten in Southern Europe. As a Manager he has performed several acquisitions in Spain, Italy and Portugal. Augustin’s transaction experience covers Engineering and IT services, Digital Transformation and Analytics. Before Alten, Augustin has done several internships in Paris, France, Casablanca, Morocco and Barcelona, Spain. Augustin holds a Msc. in Management with a specialization in Corporate Finance from NEOMA Business School. Augustin speaks French (native) and is fluent in English and Spanish.
Andrea Pierpaoli

Team member
Partner - Head of Execution
Andrea joined You are Capital in February 2020 after 17 years of experience in Rome and London assisting managers, entrepreneurs and institutional investors as Director of the execution team of AdviCorp PLC, a Corporate Finance advisory firm. He developed significant expertise in international M&A, equity/debt raising, leveraged finance and debt restructuring transactions, and an extensive knowledge of various sectors, including Food, Luxury Consumer and Construction. He brings to You are Capital the highest standards in financial and credit analysis, company/asset valuation, preparation of business plans, transaction structuring and document drafting. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification and earned a Degree cum laude in Economics and Corporate Finance from Università Politecnica delle Marche. He is fluent in Italian and English, speaks good Spanish and has a basic knowledge of French.
Ignacio Loring

Team member
Managing Partner
You are Capital Managing Partner in Madrid (Spain) has over 25 years’ experience in Corporate Finance, including M&A, restructuring and valuation. Since 1988 he has participated in multiple M&A processes in various industrial sectors including Food & Beverage, Logistics and Sustainable Energy. Ignacio has a master’s degree at ICADE (Economy and Law) and can easily work in Spanish (native), English and French.
Guillaume Hannezo

Team member
Chairman
After a career as a french civil servant (economic adviser to the french President Francois Mitterrand) and a CFO of various CAC 40 corporates (AGF, Compagnie générale des eaux, Vivendi Universal), Guillaume Hannezo specialized in 2003 in M&A and debt advisory, creating his own financial advisory boutique, later merged into Rothschild which he joined as a Partner. During his 30 years of M&A practice, he conducted or advised a wide variety of transactions on behalf of listed companies, family offices, entrepreneurs or PE funds, in France, US and emerging countries, in sectors as diverse as utility, medias, Telecoms, IT, construction, consumer products, real estate, FIG , and industry.
Julien Lagenette

Team member
Partner
Co-founder and Partner for You are Capital in Barcelona, he previously worked for Eurohold since January 2007, first as analyst, associate to Head of Execution in 2015.
With more than 15 years of experience in Corporate Finance, he has closely participated in dozens of transactions in key sectors such as Agro-Food, Pharma/Healthcare or Information Technology. Julien holds a Msc. in Management, with a specialization in finance from the EM Lyon Business School. He arrived in Spain in 2007 and additionally to his native French, he speaks fluently Spanish and English and intermediate Catalan.
Jean François Alandry

Team member
CEO & Founder
As the founder of You are Capital & Eurohold, Jean-François has over 30 years’ experience in Corporate Finance. He has completed hundreds of deals in his career, advised countless corporate transactions, with Industrials, Private Equity firms & Entrepreneurs, in various sectors ranging from Technology, Environment & Renewable Energies, B2B Services and Life Sciences. Jean-François holds an MBA in Finance (EM Lyon Business School) and a PhD in Financial Technique (ESSEC Business School in Paris), is fluent in French, Spanish & English.









