that of deal maker against the strategist

Collaborator of the heading rebounds of "Liberation", the new Director of strategy and development of Vivendi, Régis Turrini had its moment of glory with a forum dedicated to the stock market soaring of the dot coms and amounted in substance to this strong message: "sell everything!". By a happy accident of the calendar, the newspaper had published his analysis on the eve of the stock market crash of March 2000, which announced the collapse of the dot-com bubble. Then partner-Manager of the small business Arjil Bank, it was on this occasion attracted the ire of some hierarchs of the Lagardère Group, its parent, owner at the time of a certain Club Internet...

Two years and nine months passed again until Régis Turrini leaves Arjil, where he was unable to share its views within the College of the partners-managers. Then it is sailed on the drunken boat that was at the time Vivendi Universal (VU). Ironically, "sell all" will precisely be the avenue Friedland roadmap! Recruited in January 2003, the former of cases is indeed loaded support that it takes today, at the age of forty-eight over: Robert de Metz. "The commando atmosphere" instilled by Jean-René Fourtou and his lieutenants the seduced immediately. He hitches to the task. It will be tough: not less than 90 "closings" in three years! "I had to be the most active type in"M & A"from around the world at this time," fun in hindsight. As to the Samaritan woman, there was everything in view: plants bottling of orange juice in China, hotels in Sofia and Bucharest, a start-up in Los Angeles and San Diego 50... Many exotic assets or without value, but also a few large files: Sportfive, Numericable, UGC, VU Publishing... In 2004, year when the group becomes fréquentable in the eyes of investors, Régis Turrini trades his cap of vendor against the purchaser, i.e. that of "deal maker" against the strategist. Each of the functions of the group will be strengthened by a major acquisition: television with CanalSat-GST fusion music with BMG, games with Activision, telecoms with Neuf Cegetel.

"Series of coincidences".

Even if it is not the fact of one man, such a list of operations is impressive. Then, a mercenary of the mergers and acquisitions, Régis Turrini Not only. He was lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb and Jeantet & Associates be banker, and Student Affairs in Linguistics at the Sorbonne before becoming enarque, highlights "the series of coincidences" that held him instead of career plan. At Nanterre, where the linguist began its conversion into publicist under the leadership of Guy Carcassonne, a lecturer of TD, the name of André Santini, the shoot to Sciences po. At Sciences po, a certain Michel Boyon the pushes to the ENA; He will resign of the public service immediately after his release from the school to begin his career as a lawyer.

A grueling, time-consuming business. Wonder where this buff father of three children of American culture found the time to read and see about everything coming publishing houses or cinema transatlantic studios...