Jean-Hugues O’Neill founds L’LIONE as a Cash Management consulting organisation targeted at Large Corporations.

Development of the brokerage business: MATIF (French International Futures and Options Exchange), Money Market and Equity Market Block Trading.

Several Institutional Investors invest in L’LIONE and a Private Equity Fund is set up.
Start-up of an advisory practice in Equity Financing for Medium-Sized companies.

Sale of the brokerage business, sale of the Private Equity Fund, exit of the Institutional Investors from L’LIONE.

The Financial Engineering and Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory activities for Medium-Sized Companies are combined under the name INGEL‘LIONE.

The Cash Management activities are grouped under a company named FORWARD FINANCE

INGEL’LIONE changes its name to L’LIONE & Associés, managed by three Managing Partners: Marc O’Neill, Vincent Déchin and Hervé Ries.

L’LIONE & Associés strengthens its team by adding two new Managing Partners, François Canivet and Vincent Behr, and recruiting staff accordingly