Advising the players building the new financial infrastructure.

Investment banking for the companies redrawing the critical functions of institutional finance.

Blockchain-secured transactions, embedded finance, post-trade solutions. AI-assisted asset management, compliance and custody tooling, settlement systems. We are active participants in the construction of this new financial architecture, accompanying our clients with genuine technical expertise and real transaction experience.

CAPABILITIES

Dedicated expertise in market infrastructure, critical financial software, and the technologies used by major financial institutions.
A deep understanding of what banks, insurers, asset managers, market infrastructures, and other financial institutions require: security, compliance, operational resilience, interoperability, and the ability to scale.
Close familiarity with complex B2B economics: mission-critical software, long-term contracts, deep integration into client systems, institutional sales cycles, and demanding service-continuity requirements.
Blockchain and distributed-ledger expertise grounded in direct experience: François Barthélémy co-founded a start-up focused on blockchain applied to CSDs and post-trade activity before joining Gimar & Co.
The ability to bridge emerging technology and established financial institutions, understanding both the constraints of large regulated players and the innovation logic of technology platforms.
A strategic reading of the consolidation, partnership, and technology-integration dynamics between specialist software vendors, financial infrastructures, established institutions, and new blockchain players.
A capacity to advise companies in demanding markets, where technical credibility, institutional trust, regulatory compliance, and transaction execution are decisive.

What we do

Strategic M&A

Financial Sponsors & LBO

Capital Advisory

Strategic Advisory

Our approach

Market infrastructure is no longer carried by a handful of incumbent operators alone. It now rests on an ecosystem of software, platforms, data, and blockchain technologies that have become critical to the daily functioning of financial institutions.
François Barthélémy co-founded a start-up focused on blockchain applied to CSDs, settlement, and post-trade activity before joining Gimar & Co. That is how we understand this vertical from the inside, in its technological, regulatory, and transactional dimensions at once.
We bring to the companies redrawing market infrastructure the same rigour we apply to more established financial institutions and services. In both cases the stakes are the same: trust, resilience, compliance, scalability, and credibility with major institutional stakeholders.

OUR EXPERTS

François Barthélémy leads our Market Infrastructure and Blockchain practice. A former director of an asset management firm and co-founder of a company specialising in blockchain applied to market infrastructure, he brings to every mandate in this sector a practical understanding of digital finance and its transactional logic.

Our Experience

Recent Transactions in Market Infrastructure & Blockchain

2026

Market infrastructures

The Central Bank of the UAE develops central securities depository solution in partnership with Vermeg

2021

Fintech, Data & AI, Market infrastructures

Fintech Particeep accelerates with the support of both Sopra Steria and Truffle Capital

2020