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CIC Ouest

Nantes, France

Banque CIC Ouest (CIC Ouest) is the French regional commercial bank registered as a société anonyme under SIREN 855801072, RCS Nantes, ORIAS 07008480. Its headquarters are at 2 avenue Jean-Claude Bonduelle in Nantes. It serves households, professionals, private-banking clients and businesses across 22 departments of western and central France. CIC Ouest belongs to the CIC/Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale banking network, but is a separate legal counterparty from Paris-based Crédit Industriel et Commercial, Crédit Mutuel Equity, Crédit Mutuel Asset Management and CIC Private Debt. It supplies corporate credit and innovation finance rather than operating an independent external LP venture fund. Neuroscience relevance includes the exact EUR 650,000 state-guaranteed loan obtained by stroke-treatment biotechnology company Acticor Biotech in early July 2020; the state guarantee does not substitute the government as the cash lender and the exact loan day is undisclosed. Laurent Berger has chaired CIC Ouest since April 23, 2025 and Mireille Haby is its current CEO. Public natural-person governance is recorded using the September 2026 French register and more recent issuer legal notices, including Jacques Barillet’s September 9, 2026 resignation and Laurence Carde’s representative seat for corporate director CIC. Five other executive-committee roles are explicitly qualified as published in the bank’s own 2024 regional booklet, rather than presumed current. The public roster covers named governance and the latest located published management committee, not the bank’s2,300-plus entire workforce or the separate CIC parent board. Eight legal-entity directors and two corporate audit firms remain distinguished from individual team members. Its registered share capital of EUR 86,998,832 is not presented as a fundraising event. Deposits, credit balances, group-level investment allocations, external asset-manager products and startup-award recognition are not counted as newly raised LP funds or inferred portfolio equity checks.