Strategy consulting firm specialized in business intelligence, supporting its clients’ development and reputation.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuel II, Milan, Italy

Presentation

Intelligence & Business Diplomacy

Milan · Venise · Paris  

Bucy supports companies at all stages of their development, particularly in the conquest of new markets.

As strategy consulting and intelligence experts, our people secures the decision making process of management and leaders by gathering and analyzing strategic intelligence that enables them to better understand a market, its risks, opportunities and environment, and implement the most relevant development strategy.

Punta della Dogana – Venice – Italy

Approach

« Anticipate, Act, Secure »

Bucy’s areas of expertise respond to the different issues of a development policy, conducting a comprehensive market analysis identifying a local network, setting up a commercial support on the field, as well as implementing a specific public affairs or reputation strategy.

Our operations rely on consultants who are recognised experts in specific regions, subjects (economics, finance, politics, communication, intelligence) or industries (energy, aviation, infrastructure, technology, health, food processing).

Offer & services

 Bucy structures its offer around three complementary areas of expertise designed to develop its clients’ business:

Strategic Intelligence

Bucy helps its clients understand the challenges they face.

The strategic intelligence provided by Bucy’s teams contributes to the decision-making processes of business leaders. This intelligence enables informed decisions to be made, and growth opportunities to be managed in the best possible way.  

Mapping decision-making processes and key stakeholders
Analyzing and validating the market
Evaluating competitive strategies and structures
Conducting political and security impact analyses

Bucy supports its clients through a targeted research approach for mergers and acquisitions (M&A intelligence), the recruitment of commercially sensitive roles or a litigation (Background Checks).  

Business Development

A business development policy not only needs to be competitive, but also well informed and prepared.

Bucy’s teams advise and support companies on the ground in the design and implementation of their development strategy for new markets.

Identification of projects and growth opportunities
Operational support for business development
Evaluation and support in setting up financing arrangements
Validation of public procurement procedures
Identification and validation of business partners (due diligence)
Support with commercial & contractual negotiations

Public Affairs & Reputation

To conquer a market, it is first necessary to understand the institutional environment and ensure that your reputation is safeguarded.  

Bucy helps leaders implement their public affairs policy, manage their positioning and reputation.

Mapping of institutional stakeholders
Public affairs strategy and communication planning
E-reputation management
Formulating messages
Sharing positions
Press relations

International

Bucy’s teams operate in those parts of the world where they have a precise knowledge of the market and its related decision-making processes, and where they are able to gather strategic intelligence to help clients make the right choices. 

Bucy has two locations in Europe. 

Italy

Milan headoffice, supervises Bucy’s activities and leads the firm’s development policy, supported by an operational office in Venice. 

France 

Our Paris office manages Bucy’s operations in France and helps French companies do business in those parts of the world that we know best.

Management

Nicolas Bourillon

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Nicolas Bourillon spent a decade at an intelligence and international lobbying consulting firm, including several years as managing director with responsibility for the firm’s subsidiaries in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and the USA.

He also played a key role in setting up and growing Europe’s leading security operator.

Nicolas founded Bucy in 2009.

He has a solid track record in Business Intelligence and Market Access, including experience in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire…) and in Turkey, where he worked on external growth operations for major international corporate clients (defense, telecommunications, infrastructures…).

Nicolas also teaches risk management and intelligence at CELSA (Paris Sorbonne University) and HEC Paris business school.

Isabella Le Bourgeois

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Isabella Le Bourgeois has over 15 years’ experience in risk management and mission-critical corporate communications.

She spent several years at a risk management and crisis communication consulting firm, where she advised Europe’s leading audiovisual group, one of the continent’s biggest mobile operators, and the French Government Information Service (which reports to the Prime Minister’s Office).

In 2007, Isabella took up a new role at Nissan International’s head office in Geneva, where she led on public affairs policy and public-private partnerships.

In 2011, she joined Air Liquide at global headquarters in Paris and in 2016 was appointed communications director of Air Liquide R&D, overseeing communications in the complex and fiercely competitive technology and innovation sector.

Isabella, who is franco-italian, joined Bucy in 2019 as head of public affairs and reputation department, and to support the firm’s growth in Italy.

She also teaches mission-critical communications at Audencia SciencesCom in Nantes, and at CELSA (Paris Sorbonne University).

Advisory Board

Bucy has assembled an Advisory Board tasked with advising the management team on its development strategy.

It comprises economists, lawyers, crisis management professionals, and individuals from the fields of diplomacy and defense.

At a glance

Founded over

15 years ago

Operating in almost

+60 countries

Gained the trust of

+100 customers

continents

business sectors

public communication