Your gateway between the Gulf and Southwest France.
IBC works in both directions. We bring Gulf and Asian investors to Southwest France, and we help French investors and companies establish in the UAE, one of the world's great business hubs. Twenty years of personal relationships on both sides.
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Years in the Gulf business community
2005
IBC established in France
ASIS
Member of the world's largest security professional organisation
BDX
Bordeaux, our gateway
Two directions
One bridge, both ways
Into France
Invest and establish in Southwest France
For Gulf and Asian investors, family offices and companies: wine estates, real estate, partnerships and market entry, with the right local introductions from day one.
Why Southwest FranceInto the UAE
Set up and invest in the UAE
For French investors and companies: Dubai and the UAE free zones as a base to reach the Gulf, Asia and Africa, with trusted partners for company set-up, accounting and property.
Investing in the UAEWhy IBC
Two worlds. One bridge.
Most cross-border firms know one side of the bridge. We know both: France from the inside, and the Gulf the same way.
IBC was established in France in 2005. For twenty years the people behind it have lived and worked in the Gulf business community, alongside investors, security professionals, energy companies, technology firms and real estate operators across the UAE, Qatar and the wider GCC, while keeping deep roots in Southwest France.
That dual presence is not a positioning statement. It is a lived reality that opens doors neither side could open alone, and it works in both directions: international capital into Southwest France, and French investors and companies into the UAE.
We do not sell reports or methodologies. We make introductions between people who can do business together, and we stay involved until the deal is done.
Nine service areas
What IBC does
01
Market entry
Helping Gulf and Asian businesses establish in France: company formation, regulatory navigation and the right local introductions from day one.
02
Investment facilitation
Connecting international investors with French vineyard estates, agri-food businesses, real estate and strategic participations in Southwest France.
03
Real estate
Residential, commercial and agricultural property introductions across the region, for investors, relocating executives and businesses seeking a French base.
04
Business development
Opening the Southwest France ecosystem of chambers of commerce, regional agencies and business networks to international partners who want real access.
05
Clean energy
Facilitating partnerships between Gulf and Asian energy players and France’s hydrogen and renewable innovators in the Southwest cluster.
06
Risk and security
Cross-border due diligence, business-risk assessment and security advisory for transactions and relocations, informed by active ASIS membership.
07
Investing in the UAE
For French investors and companies: set up, invest and build from the UAE, a global hub between Europe, Asia and Africa.
08
Localisation and technology transfer
Helping French companies localise in the Gulf: local production, partners and the transfer of know-how that buyers increasingly expect.
09
Education and student mobility
Schools in the UAE and France, transfers between curricula, university pathways and partnerships between institutions.
The destination
Why Southwest France
Not Paris. Southwest France, and Bordeaux in particular, offers something rarer: a region of global reputation, genuine assets and a business community that still operates on relationships.
Wine and agriculture. Aerospace and defence, with Airbus, Thales, Safran and CNES anchored in the corridor between Bordeaux and Toulouse. A quality of life that Gulf and Asian families value. And a regional economy actively seeking the kind of patient, serious international capital that IBC brings.
Our clients
Who we work with
IBC works directly with principals, not intermediaries or committees. Our clients and partners are business owners, investors and decision-makers from the Gulf, China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Southeast Europe who are serious about France as a destination.
On the French side, we work with businesses, estates and institutions that want credible, relationship-verified access to international capital and partnerships, and with French investors and companies that want to establish in the UAE. We are selective about who we work with. That selectivity is what makes our introductions worth something.
Our approach
What makes IBC different
There is no shortage of firms that will tell you they can help you enter the French market. Most of them will hand you a report, introduce you to a lawyer and wish you well.
IBC operates differently. Our network on both sides of this bridge took twenty years to build, and it is a network of people, not directories. When IBC makes an introduction, both parties already know it is worth taking seriously.
We bring three things that most advisory firms cannot combine: deep personal relationships in the Gulf business community, direct access to the Southwest France institutional and commercial ecosystem, and a professional security and risk perspective through active membership in ASIS International, the world's largest security professional organisation.
Ready to explore what’s possible?
Whether you are looking to invest in Southwest France or to establish in the UAE, the conversation starts here.
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