Savigny Partners is a London-based corporate finance advisory firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the luxury, fashion, and retail sectors. The firm was founded by Pierre Mallevays, formerly head of acquisitions at LVMH, and advises brand owners, family shareholders, conglomerates, and investors on the sale and purchase of luxury businesses across categories including fashion, watches and jewelry, beauty, and auction houses.
Within the luxury investment community, Savigny Partners is best known for the Savigny Luxury Index (SLI), a stock market index the firm compiles and publishes that tracks a basket of the world's leading publicly listed luxury goods companies, spanning groups such as LVMH, Kering, Richemont, Hermes, and other listed luxury names covering well over a hundred brands. The index is published with monthly commentary analyzing luxury sector share price performance against the broader market, and is regularly cited in industry media including The Business of Fashion as a benchmark for the health of the listed luxury sector.
The firm's website publishes the index, its historical graph and constituent table, and market commentary, making it a reference resource for investors and analysts following luxury equities. Alongside this public research, the firm's core business remains discreet sell-side and buy-side advisory for luxury companies and their owners.