Vivien De Gunzburg
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Ceres Infrastructure is the largest private debt fund with the longest duration established to finance the renovation of core infrastructure assets in the USA.
Ceres lends large amounts to individual project companies at low interest rates over the long run with a fixed rate.
Ceres is a fixed income product adressed exclusively to US institutional pension funds.
Ceres creates streams of recurring visible attractive yields from stable and strategic core infrastructure tangible assets.
Mr Vivien de Gunzburg founded Ceres Infrastructure Asset Management in 2019.
Mr de Gunzburg also established Findercod in 2003. Findercod was the third financial advisory services company that Mr. de Gunzburg participated in creating. Present in the UK, Belgium and France, Findercod provides services in corporate finance (including long-term alternative financing solutions), private equity and asset management. Since 2008, Findercod has focused on advising operators and corporates in structuring and financing their projects (PPP, ESCO, concessions) including diversifying their financing architecture, working closely with U.S. institutional investors (pension funds, insurance companies, etc.).
In 2002, Mr. de Gunzburg was involved in the creation of a second investment banking start-up: Stephens Financial Group (“SFG”). SFG was set up to be the large capitalizations mergers and acquisitions arm of the Stephens Group in New York. The the Stephens family from Little Rock (AK, US), is one of America’s most successful investing, operating, banking and political families (seeded Wall Mart, financed President Bill Clinton, General Wesley Clark, etc.). While at SFG, Vivien de Gunzburg worked as a Vice President in the M&A advisory practice, serving clients in the industrial, aerospace, homeland security and life sciences areas. Mr. de Gunzburg was involved in the Northrop Grumman/TRW $13.4 billion merger and the simultaneous sale of TRW Automotive to The Blackstone Group for $4.7 billion. Mr. de Gunzburg was also involved in the origination and analysis of private equity investment opportunities for the Stephens Group.
From 1998 to 2002, Mr. de Gunzburg was part of the Banking Group of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in New York. In 2001, while at Lazard, Mr. de Gunzburg was a Senior Associate dedicated exclusively to and working in duo for Ambassador Felix Rohatyn. While participating to the creation of Rohatyn Associates, Mr. de Gunzburg originated deals for clients such Comcast (which led the merger of AT&T and Comcast for $72bn, HSBC’s acquisition of Household International for $16bn), Suez, Sodexho, LVMH, Publicis, Fiat, Fimalac, United Technologies and Pfizer. Prior Mr. de Gunzburg was, in 2000, an Associate in the Industrial and Retail Group at Lazard. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. de Gunzburg was an Analyst in the Lazard Life Sciences Group, working for Kenneth Jacobs, currently worldwide chairman of Lazard. Transactions executed included Pfizer’s hostile acquisition of pharmaceutical Warner-Lambert for $116 billion and simultaneous divestiture of lice treatment Rid to Bayer for $85 million (2001), the sale of engineered nutrition food MET-Rx to Rexall Sundown for $106 million (2000), Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc merger-of-equals into Aventis for $45 billion (1999), and the sale of the remaining 80% of Pioneer Hi-Bred to DuPont for $7.7 billion (1999).
Prior to joining Lazard, Mr. de Gunzburg worked at Rothschild & Cie. in Paris in 1997 as an Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions department advising clients in the industrial, financial, real-estate and technology sectors. In 1995 and 1996, he worked at Société Générale as an analyst in the Credit department both in Madrid and in Hong Kong. In 1994 Mr. de Gunzburg worked at Sanofi Beauté in Barcelona.Prior to that, in 1993, he worked at Republic New York Corporation (Republic National Bank and Safra Bank) in the Mergers and Acquisitions department in New York.
A French and Belgian national, Mr. de Gunzburg received a MSc. in financial engineering from E.S.L.S.C.A. and a BA with honors from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris. Mr. de Gunzburg is fluent in French, English and Spanish, and notions in German, Japanese and Russian.
Mr. de Gunzburg is a Young Leader and member of the Board of Directors of the French-American Foundation in France, the founder and President of the de Gunzburg Myeloma Research Foundation in the USA, a Member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer of FFRMG (French Foundation for the Research on Myeloma and Gammopathy) in France, a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of World ORT (the world’s oldest and largest NGO dedicated to education), Chairman of ORT-IC (International Cooperation) in Switzerland and the UK, President of Union ORT in France, Vice-President of ORT Belgium, and a member of the Board of Directors of ORT America and ORT France, Vice President and member of the General Committee of The Travellers club in France.