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Memo Bank

A KEY SOLUTION FOR MANAGING OUR SHAREHOLDER COMPLEXITY

As Memo Bank grew, managing a complex cap table with many shareholders and several upcoming funding rounds became a priority. To secure operations and streamline processes, the team turned to Equify to centralize all financial and administrative data.


Karim Makram-Ebeid
KARIM MAKRAM-EBEID | GENERAL SECRETARY

"With Equify, we finally have a single source of truth. Every exercise of BSPCEs is carried out without any re-entries or ambiguities, and we gain in reliability and peace of mind."

Memo Bank
A KEY SOLUTION FOR MANAGING OUR SHAREHOLDER COMPLEXITY

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About Memo Bank

About Memo Bank

Founded in 2017 by Jean-Daniel Guyot and Michel Galibert, Memo Bank is France's leading independent bank for SMEs and ETIs. Approved by the European Central Bank (ECB) and supervised by the ACPR, it supports more than 700 companies in the management of their cash, flows and financing. Thanks to cutting-edge technology and dedicated human support, Memo Bank enables finance departments to manage all their operations in a centralized, integrated way.

About Karim

About Karim

Karim Makram-Ebeid practiced law for ten years, first at firms before the Cour de cassation and the Conseil d’État, then at Gide Loyrette Nouel, before co-founding the Bochamp law firm. He later spent more than a decade as an in-house corporate lawyer, notably at SFIL, where he served as Legal Manager overseeing litigation, public-sector financing, and export credit. He is a former Secretary of the Conférence des Avocats du Barreau de Paris and a graduate of Paris Nanterre (Paris X) and HEC Paris.

Anticipating complexity

Anticipated complexity

In 2021, Memo Bank faces an increasingly complex capital structure. The large number of holders, notably of BSPCEs and BSAs, makes manual management of the cap table both risky and time-consuming. This complexity is exacerbated by the need to orchestrate a number of fund-raising events, generating ever-increasing volumes of data and documents.

To anticipate the administrative burden and guarantee the reliability of information from the outset, the team chose Equify as its single repository, in order to centralize the cap table, standardize processes and accelerate collaboration with all stakeholders.

"As early as 2021, we chose to anticipate the complexity of our capitalization table. With several capital raisings in the pipeline and dozens of BSPCE and BSA holders, we needed a single repository. Equify enabled us to structure from the outset, rather than suffer later." - Karim, General Secretary

A unique source of truth

A single source of truth

As fundraising and BSPCE grants become more frequent, centralizing legal information is essential to ensure reliability. By bringing the cap table, statutory registers, and all related documents into a single repository, the team eliminates duplicate entries, reduces the risk of errors, and strengthens traceability.

With an always up-to-date, usable view, collaboration becomes smoother: information is standardized, easy to share, and accessible in real time. Preparing transactions and responding to internal or external requests becomes significantly faster and simpler.

"With Equify, we finally have a single source of truth. For each BSPCE exercise, I can instantly find the right information and the right document. We've gained in reliability and peace of mind." - Karim, Corporate Secretary

Smooth, secure exchanges

Smooth, secure exchanges

Equify gives Memo Bank's teams rapid access to all the company's shareholder information, making it easier to respond to ad hoc investor requests. Exchanges are faster and better documented. In addition, thanks to personal access to their shareholdings, employees - even those who have left the company - can easily obtain the documents they need. This centralization reduces the number of round-trips, secures responses and frees up time for higher value-added operations.

"Managing investors' requests for certificates or answering their questions about their percentage shareholding can quickly become complex and time-consuming," explains Karim - Secretary General of Memo Bank. "With Equify, we respond in just a few clicks with the right version of the document and the right percentage. We have gained in responsiveness and rigor in all our exchanges."

The future with Equify

The future with Equify

For the next round of fundraising, the team will need to send out hundreds of documents. With Equify's integrated direct mail, everything becomes simple: personalization, distribution and traceability are done in a few clicks, on a large scale, with no errors or re-entries.

"Going from 300 manual mailings to direct mail driven in Equify transforms lifting: faster, more reliable, and totally under control." - Karim, General Secretary

About Memo Bank

Founded in 2017 by Jean-Daniel Guyot and Michel Galibert, Memo Bank is France's leading independent bank for SMEs and ETIs. Approved by the European Central Bank (ECB) and supervised by the ACPR, it supports more than 700 companies in the management of their cash, flows and financing. Thanks to cutting-edge technology and dedicated human support, Memo Bank enables finance departments to manage all their operations in a centralized, integrated way.

About Karim

Karim Makram-Ebeid practiced law for ten years, first at firms before the Cour de cassation and the Conseil d’État, then at Gide Loyrette Nouel, before co-founding the Bochamp law firm. He later spent more than a decade as an in-house corporate lawyer, notably at SFIL, where he served as Legal Manager overseeing litigation, public-sector financing, and export credit. He is a former Secretary of the Conférence des Avocats du Barreau de Paris and a graduate of Paris Nanterre (Paris X) and HEC Paris.

Anticipated complexity

In 2021, Memo Bank faces an increasingly complex capital structure. The large number of holders, notably of BSPCEs and BSAs, makes manual management of the cap table both risky and time-consuming. This complexity is exacerbated by the need to orchestrate a number of fund-raising events, generating ever-increasing volumes of data and documents.

To anticipate the administrative burden and guarantee the reliability of information from the outset, the team chose Equify as its single repository, in order to centralize the cap table, standardize processes and accelerate collaboration with all stakeholders.

"As early as 2021, we chose to anticipate the complexity of our capitalization table. With several capital raisings in the pipeline and dozens of BSPCE and BSA holders, we needed a single repository. Equify enabled us to structure from the outset, rather than suffer later." - Karim, General Secretary

A single source of truth

As fundraising and BSPCE grants become more frequent, centralizing legal information is essential to ensure reliability. By bringing the cap table, statutory registers, and all related documents into a single repository, the team eliminates duplicate entries, reduces the risk of errors, and strengthens traceability.

With an always up-to-date, usable view, collaboration becomes smoother: information is standardized, easy to share, and accessible in real time. Preparing transactions and responding to internal or external requests becomes significantly faster and simpler.

"With Equify, we finally have a single source of truth. For each BSPCE exercise, I can instantly find the right information and the right document. We've gained in reliability and peace of mind." - Karim, Corporate Secretary

Smooth, secure exchanges

Equify gives Memo Bank's teams rapid access to all the company's shareholder information, making it easier to respond to ad hoc investor requests. Exchanges are faster and better documented. In addition, thanks to personal access to their shareholdings, employees - even those who have left the company - can easily obtain the documents they need. This centralization reduces the number of round-trips, secures responses and frees up time for higher value-added operations.

"Managing investors' requests for certificates or answering their questions about their percentage shareholding can quickly become complex and time-consuming," explains Karim - Secretary General of Memo Bank. "With Equify, we respond in just a few clicks with the right version of the document and the right percentage. We have gained in responsiveness and rigor in all our exchanges."

The future with Equify

For the next round of fundraising, the team will need to send out hundreds of documents. With Equify's integrated direct mail, everything becomes simple: personalization, distribution and traceability are done in a few clicks, on a large scale, with no errors or re-entries.

"Going from 300 manual mailings to direct mail driven in Equify transforms lifting: faster, more reliable, and totally under control." - Karim, General Secretary

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