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Societe Generale Expands TMT Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Footprint With New Silicon Valley Office

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Societe Generale announced the official opening of its new office on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. The office will serve as Societe Generale’s West Coast hub for corporate finance and investment banking activities and will primarily focus on supporting clients in the Technology Media Telecommunications sector. TMT is a key global sectorial pillar for Societe Generale.

Krzysztof Walenczak, Societe Generale Americas Head of Investment Banking, said, “The opening of the Menlo Park office marks another successful initiative for Societe Generale as we expand our presence in the Americas. Following the recent formation of Bernstein, our joint-venture with AllianceBernstein that created a leading global cash equities and equity research firm, we continue to demonstrate our determination to provide our clients a platform that offers exceptional capital markets, investment banking and corporate finance products and services.”

Societe Generale’s TMT sector team offers a wide range of services from mergers and acquisitions advisory to structuring and execution of tailor-made financing solutions to clients across digital infrastructure, corporate and leveraged finance. The team’s clients span the fields of Infrastructure and Application Software, Fintech, Internet, Telecom (covering operators and infrastructure), IT services and Business Process Outsourcing, and Media.

Jeff Mortara, Global Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets and Head of Technology Investment Banking in the Americas, said, “As we continue to expand our TMT business in the US, our new Menlo Park office will allow us to be closer to many of our existing clients and more readily tap into new opportunities in what remains the beating heart of technology finance.”

Co-heading Societe Generale’s new West Coast office are John Jansen and Jonathan Weinberger. Jansen joined Societe Generale in September 2024 and previously led UBS Group’s technology mergers and acquisitions group. Jansen will focus on providing West Coast TMT clients with investment banking services. Weinberger joined Societe Generale in 2010 and has held senior level roles in Technology Banking and Debt Capital Markets in New York and London prior to transferring to Menlo Park. Weinberger will lead Societe Generale’s effort with California-based corporate finance clients.

Societe Generale

Societe Generale is a top tier European Bank with around 119,000 employees serving more than 26 million clients in 62 countries across the world. We have been supporting the development of our economies for 160 years, providing our corporate, institutional, and individual clients with a wide array of value-added advisory and financial solutions. Our long-lasting and trusted relationships with the clients, our cutting-edge expertise, our unique innovation, our ESG capabilities and leading franchises are part of our DNA and serve our most essential objective - to deliver sustainable value creation for all our stakeholders.

The Group runs three complementary sets of businesses, embedding ESG offerings for all its clients:

  • French Retail, Private Banking and Insurance, with leading retail bank SG and insurance franchise, premium private banking services, and the leading digital bank BoursoBank.
  • Global Banking and Investor Solutions, a top tier wholesale bank offering tailored-made solutions with distinctive global leadership in equity derivatives, structured finance and ESG.
  • Mobility, International Retail Banking and Financial Services, comprising well-established universal banks (in Czech Republic, Romania and several African countries), Ayvens (the new ALD I LeasePlan brand), a global player in sustainable mobility, as well as specialized financing activities.

Committed to building together with its clients a better and sustainable future, Societe Generale aims to be a leading partner in the environmental transition and sustainability overall. The Group is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Refinitiv Diversity and Inclusion Index, Euronext Vigeo (Europe and Eurozone), STOXX Global ESG Leaders indexes, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index (World and Europe).

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Societe Generale officially opens its new office in Menlo Park, California. The office will serve as the West Coast hub for corporate finance and investment banking activities, focusing on clients in the Technology Media Telecommunications sector

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