Laurent Bien Legbane, PhD, is the Global Chairman of CFBANQUE INVESTMENT, an investment-banking platform headquartered in London and conceived as a strategic hub connecting African economies to the deepest pools of international capital. His career spans more than two decades at the intersection of advisory, capital markets and institutional finance, including senior positions held at Goldman Sachs as Vice President and at McKinsey & Company as Associate Director, where he led complex cross-border mandates for sovereigns, corporates and financial sponsors.
His academic trajectory mirrors that institutional ambition: a doctorate from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, an MBA from HEC Montréal, a Master in Finance from ESSEC and advanced training in financial engineering at American University. He is a Chartered Financial Investment professional and writes regularly — three editorial publications a week — on African economic transformation, investment finance, entrepreneurship and corporate governance, positioning himself as one of the most consistent institutional voices on the continent's capital agenda.
Under his stewardship, CFBANQUE INVESTMENT is structured around four operating disciplines: institutionalisation, financial engineering, integration with global markets and the creation of lasting economic impact. The platform deploys equity, debt and hybrid instruments to structure complex transactions for African corporates, public institutions and international investors, with an explicit thesis that the continent's next development cycle will be financed through the mobilisation of domestic institutional capital, world-class governance and sustainability anchored at the centre of valuation models — not at its periphery.