What Were the Top Investments of French Family Offices in 2025?

In 2025, several French single-family offices put capital to work in large, internationally visible transactions. This article directly contributes to the list of the largest French family offices, provided in English on familyofficehub.io, and in French on leslistes.fr. The Arnault family’s investment vehicle (alongside LVMH-backed investor L Catterton) backed UK restaurant group Dishoom in a deal widely reported to value the business at around £300 million, marking one of the year’s headline consumer bets. In private markets, listed investment group Wendel (controlled by the Wendel family) completed its acquisition of a controlling stake in U.S. private credit manager Monroe Capital, a cornerstone deal to expand its asset-management platform.

Domestic turnarounds and growth equity stayed on the agenda

Back in France, the Poitrinal family’s firm Neopar joined a consortium (including Xavier Niel and Iconix) behind a €60 million bid for heritage sportswear label Le Coq Sportif, highlighting continued appetite for high-profile restructurings. Wendel also kept deploying into technology: it participated in Tadaweb’s 2025 growth round, as reported by EU-Startups, underscoring how French family capital spans both large-scale platform acquisitions and selective venture/growth exposure.

Healthcare and financial services remained magnets for family capital

In healthcare, the Bettencourt-Meyers family (via Téthys Invest) increased its stake in animal-health group Ceva Santé Animale as part of a multi-billion-euro equity round that lifted the company’s valuation into the high single-digit billions. In financial services, the Hermès heirs’ family office Krefeld was part of the buyer group acquiring commercial insurer Albingia, with deal work documented by PwC Société d’Avocats. Taken together, 2025’s standout transactions show French single-family offices leaning into scaled private-market platforms while still pursuing opportunistic, brand-led and sector-specialist deals.Picture

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