Five M&A and capital markets advisers with backgrounds at firms including HSBC, Rothschild, and Lazard have teamed up to launch a mid-market advisory firm in Paris – with an emerging markets twist.

Alexander Partners is the brainchild of Charles-Edouard Marcelle-Chevallier, one of four founding partners, who worked in HSBC's corporate finance division for seven years until 2014, handling mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and equity capital markets work in Paris and London.