Brice Audibert is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Transformation Services in Paris. He brings more than 25 years of experience, with 15 in corporate mergers and acquisitions. His primary areas of concentration are M&A strategy, acquisitions, minority investments, joint-ventures, divestments and carve-out.
Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Audibert worked for corporations across a range of industries, including industrials (Nexans, IDEMIA), leisure and travel (Smart&Co, Karavel/Promovacances), telecom (SFR) and civil engineering (Bouygues).
Mr. Audibert has led national and cross-border deals, including the carve-out of the Gaming Terminals, the Electronic Signature and Digital Vault businesses from IDEMIA; divestments of several Nexans subsidiaries in Argentina, Russia, Germany and France; a joint venture for Nexans in China; investments for Nexans in the charging stations for the electrical vehicles industry; acquisition for Nexans of a large cable maker in the oil and gas industry in the U.S.; and acquisitions in France in the online travel industry for Karavel/Promovacances and in the food services industry for Smart&Co.
Mr. Audibert earned a master’s degree in engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and an executive MBA from HEC. He is fluent in French and English.
Thought Leadership
April 2026 is set to hit small UK retailers with a fresh wave of cost hikes, pilling pressure onto a sector many say is facing its toughest time since Covid. Rising wage, insurance, sick pay, business rates, energy standing charges, and reduced owner take‑home pay arrive as consumer demand softens and inflation fears persist amid geopolitical tensions. SMEs enter with limited resilience and mounting headwinds—including late payments, crime, and heavier admin/tax burdens—raising the risk of closures or contraction. The piece urges defensive cost control where necessary and, where possible, smarter pricing, operational efficiency, and targeted automation/analytics to protect margins and conserve working capital.
