Arkuna is a Paris-based advisory firm and investment vehicle. We advise on commercial due diligence, strategic plans and transformation programmes, and we invest in midsize companies — in luxury, fashion and cosmetics; industry and chemicals; and technology.
What we do
Named by what you receive at the end, not by the verb we use to get there.
For funds evaluating an acquisition. Market sizing, competitive position, channel economics, and interviews with distributors, customers and former operators. Where the deal carries merger-control or sector-regulation exposure, that is assessed alongside the commercial case.
Typically 2–3 months · Go / no-go recommendation
For executive committees and shareholders. Diagnosis, options, and an implementation sequence with named owners and milestones.
Typically 3–4 months · Plan and implementation sequence
For boards and their chairs. Independent review of management's plan, preparation of strategic decisions, and support on governance questions.
By mandate, or on a standing basis
Alongside advisory mandates, Arkuna invests directly in midsize companies in technology, industry and luxury.
Selected engagements
Clients are not named. The shape of the mandate is what tells you whether we can do what you need.
Commercial due diligence
Packaging · Asia · $500m
A three-month assignment for an international private equity fund evaluating a $500m acquisition of an Asian cosmetics packaging manufacturer.
Commercial due diligence on the target, then the value creation plan the fund would execute after closing. The fund proceeded with the acquisition.
Digital transformation
SBF 120 · Worldwide
A three-month assignment for a French SBF 120 group, reporting directly to the chief executive, covering operations worldwide.
The mandate led to the introduction of advanced AI tools in supply chain and CRM, and to the recruitment of a chief digital officer.
Strategic plan and restructuring
Childrenswear · Brazil, China · $250m
A four-month assignment for a consortium of Brazilian and Chinese investors, on a $250m business.
The plan moved the brand's price positioning, pivoted the company toward international markets, and rebuilt its brand image.
Founder
Arkuna is his firm. Clients deal with him directly, on every mandate, from the first meeting to the final recommendation.
He began on the public side: economic analysis and antitrust at the French telecommunications regulator, then adviser to the minister for research on new technologies and science, then four years at the French Permanent Representation to the European Union, covering industry and the information society. Merger control, sector rules and how a file actually moves in Brussels are things he has handled from the other side of the table.
He has since operated in each of the three sectors Arkuna advises, rather than only advising on them. From 2009 to 2013 he was at Vivendi, first as vice-president for strategy and development, then in an operating role at GVT, the group’s Brazilian telecommunications operator. He then spent six years at the international chemicals group Solvay as a general manager, running two business units in succession — Phenol & Derivatives, from São Paulo, then Peroxides EMEA, from Brussels — with the plants, supply chain and commercial teams reporting to him. He joined LVMH in 2019 as advisor to the chairman and chief executive, then served as chief digital officer of Louis Vuitton, and ran Make Up For Ever as its chief executive until 2024 — the same operating scope, this time with a brand to protect.
Plants and supply chain on one side, a brand and its distribution on the other. That is why his recommendations arrive with an implementation sequence attached: he has had to carry one out himself. He founded Arkuna in January 2025 to do this work for funds, boards and executive committees.
Contact
A first conversation costs nothing and usually takes twenty minutes.