I was lefthanded and I became righthanded

The resumption of the Germain Paris, la SNCM or BDDP advertising agency... Several sensitive cases projected Butler Capital Partners Fund under the spotlight. As its President and founder, Walter Butler, a taste of the movement and the challenge. Brazilian by her mother, by his father, installed in France... From the outset, his route is atypical. "I feel enough Brazilian football, perhaps American in some areas of business." I have no French blood, however I feel fully French since I chose to live here and to manage a fund which is based in this country. Many of my competitors have chosen to settle in London or elsewhere.

It is eight years that Walter Butler crosses the ocean and change of continent. "It took learn to speak French, insert me." I was left-handed and I became right-handed... It asked me much effort. "Later, after the ENA, the Inspection of finance and a passage to François Léotard in the Ministry of Culture, Walter Butler returns to the United States, Goldman Sachs. "I had the chance to enter this bank that was less known than it is today, and that is the best Bank business in the world, in the universe American capitalism." As training, it was an extraordinary experience. I learned a lot during these years there. "Yet, Walter Butler did not want to make his life between London, New York and Tokyo, as a partner in the firm status required. He then decided to return: "the American universe gives self-confidence." This gave me the confidence to start my business that I would certainly not done if I had stayed in France.

In 1991, when he founded his company, Walter Butler is supported by Edmond de Rothschild, but by François Pinault. "Our first"coup"was BDDP." It was a big folder, in the advertising sector. There were several thousand people, losses totaled billions... If François Pinault only had not called me, a Sunday night, said: I think that the teams are good, you should help them, I think that I would have scared me launch... "The"coup"results in a success, Butler Capital Partners cleans up debt and triple 18 months implementation. This fact of weapons is launching the Fund. Osiatis, Ipsos, Flo... In fifteen years, Butler Capital Partners emerged as one of the rare French specialists of the takeover of firms in difficulty. In the delicate case of SNCM, was Walter Butler in mission commissioned by the Government No, he says. Yet, the President of the Fund is often presented as the "best friend" of Dominique de Villepin... "We have not been in the same promotion of ENA, contrary to what has been said: I am a few years younger." And, to the Council of economic analysis, I was appointed in 2004 by Jean-Pierre Raffarin, not by Dominique de Villepin. Dominique de Villepin is human through which I entered at the ENA. A few years later, I helped her brother to prepare for the competition. "I know for a long time, but this is not a relative in the sense where it is usually," he says.

For 2007, Walter Butler issued a clear vow: "moving lines, move the lines, and move lines." Do not be afraid of failures, changes. We let a phenomenal debt burden to our children, we are not quite careful to respect the environment... It takes courage! "Will there be behind one of the candidates "No."

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