The team

Experience and drive, finance and science.

Florian Puchly
Florian Puchly
Founder · M&A Advisory
Twelve years of M&A in healthcare, aesthetic medicine and longevity.
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François-Xavier Festal
François-Xavier Festal
Partner · Pharma M&A
Over fifteen years of healthcare M&A — former Head of Healthcare M&A at Deloitte.
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Eric Bonafini
Eric Bonafini
Strategic Partner · SingaporeFinancial Structuring
Fifteen years of international financial structuring; access to Asia-Pacific and Gulf investors.
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Florian Puchly

Founder

Trained as an organic chemistry engineer (ENSCM), then a graduate of ESSEC Business School (Paris) and of the MBA programme at Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA), Florian Puchly has executed cross-border healthcare transactions for over ten years, as Vice President at Michel Dyens & Co., then as co-founder and Managing Director of Windome Banking Partners. The core: aesthetic medicine, dermatology and regenerative medicine — alongside adjacent mandates in artificial intelligence, oncology, dental, ophthalmology, hair health and biopolymers.

Before finance, the lab bench: Florian Puchly started out in research and development at GSK, working on epigenetics, and at Sanofi. He keeps from it the reflex of reading an asset through its science — mechanism, evidence, intellectual property — before reading its numbers.

This trajectory combines scientific credibility, a financial reading of transactions, and an international network of clinicians, key opinion leaders and industry executives.

Beyond transactional work, he is the author of more than ten market reports on the healthy-ageing and aesthetics ecosystem: injectables, regenerative medicine, dermocosmetics, alopecia, GLP-1s, paramedical care centres.

This conviction is not merely professional. A sports enthusiast (Hyrox pro), Florian Puchly regards sport, sleep and nutrition as the three foundational pillars of longevity and wellbeing — the ones that shape each person's metabolism, body composition, cardiovascular and mental health, and hormonal balance.

4P Life Ventures grows out of that continuity between what he advises and what he practises. Supporting founders in the sector through to the end of their project, and creating maximum value for them, is also a way of making the dream of prolonged youth accessible to more people.

Selected M&A transactions involving the founder

ANTI-AGEING MEDICINE

🇨🇳 CN · 🇫🇷 FR
Bloomage Biotech—Vivacy
Acquisition of a 33.4% stake in Vivacy by China's Bloomage.
Injectables / HA fillers
2015
🇦🇹 AT · 🇰🇷 KR
Croma Pharma—Hugel
US, Canada and ANZ joint venture — toxins, HA fillers and PDO threads.
Fillers, toxins & PDO threads
2018
🇨🇭 CH · 🇵🇱 PL
ITP SA — Neauvia™—Abris Capital
Sale of a 51% stake to Abris Capital — industrial and international scale-up.
Devices & injectables
2018
🇨🇳 CN · 🇫🇷 FR
Bloomage—Revitacare
Structuring of a performance-based payment (upfront and earn-out).
Injectables / mesotherapy
2017
🇫🇷 FR · 🇨🇳 CN
Suisselle—Sihuan Pharmaceutical
Exclusive advisor on the sale of a 10% stake to Sihuan Pharmaceutical.
HA fillers
2025
🇮🇱 IL · 🇺🇸 US
Luminera—Allergan Aesthetics (AbbVie)
Divestiture to AbbVie–Allergan Aesthetics — Crystalys, HArmonyCa, Hydryalix and Hydryal brands.
CaHA composite matrix fillers
2020

PREDICTIVE, REGENERATIVE & PERSONALISED MEDICINE

🇫🇷 FR · 🇺🇸 US
Okeiro—Alven · Red River West · Forepont
Series A — predictive AI (kidney graft survival, clinical trial optimisation).
Predictive health AI
2024
🇫🇷 FR
Levellis—Business Angel Consortium
Seed round — first-in-class secretome-based skincare platform (fetuin, NIH-certified MSCs).
Regenerative / secretome
2025
🇫🇷 FR · 🇺🇸 US
A2P Sciences—SkinBetter Science
Licensing of an anti-glycation technology — scientific differentiation.
Nutricosmetics
2022
🇫🇷 FR · 🇦🇹 AT
Universkin—Croma Pharma
European out-licensing of a physician-dispensed personalised skincare IP.
Personalised skincare
2016

DERMOCOSMETICS & CONSUMER HEALTH

🇮🇹 IT · 🇺🇸 US
BMG Pharma—SkinBetter Science
Worldwide licensing of dermocosmetic formulations (DermaForce).
Premium dermocosmetics
2021
🇫🇷 FR
SOTHYS—Simone Mahler
Management buy-out — repositioning in anti-ageing dermocosmetics.
Spas & dermocosmetics
2016
🇮🇹 IT · 🇫🇷 FR
BMG Pharma—Pierre Fabre
Distribution, supply and licensing agreement for oral care brands.
Oral care / OTC
2019

A selection of transactions executed in an advisory capacity (sell-side, buy-side, licensing and fundraising), prior to the founding of 4P Life Ventures. This list is not exhaustive and amounts are not disclosed.

Mandates & sector coverage

Beyond completed transactions.

  • Market reports Eleven sector reports: M&A and trends in aesthetics, injectables, medical spas and energy-based devices, GLP-1 analogues, skincare and alopecia, prescription dermatology, regenerative medicine (exosomes, PRP), biopolymers in aesthetics, healthcare artificial intelligence, regional dynamics, aesthetic facial and body implants.
  • Regenerative medicine Advising a global leader in the PRP market and a start-up specialised in exosomes derived from umbilical cord Wharton's jelly (WJ-MSC) — search for strategic and financial partnerships in both cases.
  • Hair health & alopecia Energy-based medical devices (LED) for hair regrowth, holistic hair care centres in the United States (laser, creams, implants, nutricosmetics), minimally invasive synthetic implants.
  • Therapeutics & biotech Immunotherapies for stage IV glioblastoma, ophthalmic lasers.
  • Anti-ageing clinics Fundraising for a franchise of minimally invasive care centres in aesthetic medicine.
  • Raw materials & biopolymers Buy-side mandate: sourcing and presenting hyaluronic acid and biopolymer targets for a world leader in pharmaceutical sodium hyaluronate.