Pharmétudes

What Pharmétudes does

Pharmétudes (legal entity: GIE Pharmétudes, RCS Poitiers 384 641 445) is a French economic interest grouping founded in 1992 that organizes a national network of notaries specializing in pharmacy law (droit officinal). The network comprises 20 notary studies distributed across metropolitan France and overseas territories, headquartered at 21 bis rue de Chaumont in Poitiers, with Maître Bastien Bernardeau serving as president since 2014. Services cover the full lifecycle of pharmacy ownership transactions — first-time installation, acquisition (cession/reprise), transfer, regroupement, shareholder pacts — complemented by ongoing legal, fiscal, and wealth-management advisory to practising pharmacists (titulaires and adjoints) and prospective buyers. Notaries within the network also support each other and external notaries through a formalized inter-études collaboration product, and the entity is a Qualiopi-certified training organization delivering internal continuing education.

The operating model is a regulated professional services business with a digital top-of-funnel layer. Customers engage directly with member notary studies in their region or are referred through partner channels — INTERFIMO for financing, Giropharm and Astera for cooperative referrals, Allianz for insurance — with the public-facing Plateforme Pharmétudes (annonces de pharmacies à vendre) hosting an active directory of 37 pharmacy listings at last report. Revenue is generated on a per-engagement basis through regulated French notary tariffs (no public pricing disclosed) covering authentic deed drafting, negotiation, audit, financial arrangement, and registration/immatriculation work. The technology layer is minimal: a WordPress website, downloadable reference guides (Guide pratique de la pharmacie, Kit de la première installation), newsletter capture, and a Facebook/LinkedIn presence — no disclosed platform, proprietary software, API, or developer ecosystem. In addition to core transaction work, the network monetizes domain knowledge through inter-notary collaboration conventions and internal training, anchoring the value proposition in specialized regulatory expertise rather than technology scale.

Name

Pharmétudes

Legal name

GIE Pharmétudes

Website

https://pharmetudes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Pharmétudes is a French GIE network of 20 notaries founded in 1992 in Poitiers that specializes exclusively in pharmacy law, advising pharmacists nationwide on acquisitions, transfers, regroupements, and ongoing legal, fiscal, and wealth matters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Poitiers

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Notary legal and transaction services: Pharmétudes generates revenue through notary fees charged for legal advisory, act drafting, and transaction facilitation services related to pharmacy acquisitions, transfers, regroupings, and cessions. Revenue is derived from professional service fees for legal instruments, audits, evaluations, and administrative formalities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Pharmétudes is a national network of 20 independent notary firms (organized as a Groupement d'Intérêt Économique) that specializes in pharmacy law (droit officinal) in France. The network provides legal advisory, negotiation, transaction facilitation, and authentic deed drafting services to pharmacists for pharmacy acquisitions, transfers, regroupings, and cessions, including financial arrangement with banking partners.

Product overview

Pharmétudes operates as a unified platform and professional services network offering a portfolio of interconnected products and services for pharmacists. At its core is a digital listing platform (Plateforme Pharmétudes) that publishes pharmacy-for-sale announcements, which is complemented by transactional legal services (cession/reprise d'officine, transfert/regroupement d'officines) and a shareholder agreement service (pacte d'associés). Additional products include an annual downloadable reference guide (Guide pratique de la pharmacie) and a first-installation practical kit (Kit de la première installation). As a Qualiopi-certified training organization, Pharmétudes also delivers ongoing professional development (formation au droit officinal) exclusively to its network members. The network further offers an inter-notary collaboration service (collaboration inter-études) for external notaries seeking pharmacy law expertise, and provides ongoing legal, fiscal, and wealth management advisory (conseil juridique fiscal et patrimonial) to pharmacists. All services are anchored in notarized legal deeds and are delivered by a network of 20 notary practices across France.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Services de cession et de reprise d'officine Full-service legal and advisory support for pharmacy acquisition and sale transactions, including audit, financial evaluation, banking assistance, buyer/seller matching, and authentic deed drafting for fund transfers, equity transfers, company formation, registration, and immatriculation. Targeted at pharmacists buying or selling a pharmacy.
• Services de transfert et regroupement d'officines Legal and administrative advisory services for pharmacy transfer (relocation within or across communes) and pharmacy regroupement (consolidating multiple pharmacies into a single location), including ARS dossier preparation and all associated legal document drafting. Targeted at pharmacists relocating or consolidating pharmacies.
• Pacte d'associés

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• OuiPharmaminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOuiPharma is a platform for pharmacy purchase, sale, employment, and experts. They provide pharmacy listing services and connect professionals seeking to buy or sell pharmacies.
• AsteraminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAstera is a French cooperative group of pharmacists offering solutions for pharmacy development. Through its subsidiary CERP Rouen, it is the second-largest wholesale distributor in France by market share.
• GiropharmminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded in 1986, Giropharm is a cooperative network bringing together 750 independent pharmacists sharing a modern vision of the pharmacist profession in service of patient health.
• AllianzminorOthersAllianz is a global insurance leader present in over 70 countries with 140,000 employees worldwide, serving 86 million customers. Allianz France offers a complete range of insurance, assistance, and financial services for individuals, professionals, businesses, and public entities.
• Pharm'Etude JuniorminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPharm'Etude Junior is a law 1901 association based at the Poitiers Faculty of Pharmacy. With 400 students, numerous specialized professors, 7 research teams (4 INSERM-labeled structures), and 2 Masters in health technology sciences, it offers quality research resources for pharmacy projects.
• ANEPF (Association Nationale des Etudiants en Pharmacie de France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerANEPF is the sole representative association of France's 33,000 pharmacy students, federating local associations from all 24 pharmacy faculties. Founded 45 years ago, it is non-syndical, non-denominational, and politically independent.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BRPharm Conseil: French pharmacy transfer and acquisition advisory firm serving pharmacists planning cession, regroupement or first installation. Overlaps with Pharmétudes' core cession/reprise and installation services for the same pharmacist customer base.
• Cecopharm: French advisory firm specializing in pharmacy transfer, acquisition and regroupement transactions. Directly competes for the same transaction advisory mandates that Pharmétudes' notary network executes, with overlapping pharmacist clientele.
• Avenir Pharma: France-based specialist in pharmacy transfer and cession advisory. Targets the same buyer/seller pharmacist segment as Pharmétudes, providing transaction support that complements or substitutes for the network's notary services.
• OuiPharma: French online marketplace dedicated to pharmacy purchase, sale, employment and expert services. Directly competes with Pharmétudes' Plateforme listing product by digitizing the buyer-seller matching step that the network historically captured upstream of the notary deed.
• Pharmapro: Online platform aggregating pharmacy-for-sale listings and advisory services across France. Competes for the lead-generation funnel that Pharmétudes owns via its Plateforme, addressing the same titulaire and acquirer audience.

Others

• Astera: French cooperative of pharmacists and parent of CERP Rouen (second-largest wholesale distributor in France). Partner ecosystem player that intersects with Pharmétudes via the pharmacy ownership value chain.
• Notaires de France: National professional body representing French notaries. Comparable as the institutional regulator/aggregator for the same officiers publics that constitute Pharmétudes' network, providing benchmarking on profession-scale and policy direction.
• Giropharm: Cooperative network of 750 independent French pharmacists. While a partner rather than a direct competitor, it is a comparable ecosystem player aggregating pharmacist demand and transaction adjacency for the same customer base.

Broad incumbents

• INTERFIMO: Premier French financial organization serving liberal professionals, with 200 staff and 70 offices plus partnership with 1,700+ LCL bank branches. Comparable in that it captures pharmacist financing flow alongside Pharmétudes' notary flow; both serve the same acquirer/titulaire base.
• Fiducial: Major French professional services group providing legal, accounting and notary-adjacent services to small businesses including pharmacies. A broader incumbent offering partial overlap with Pharmétudes' legal advisory scope but at greater scale and across many verticals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/pharmetudes
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pharm%C3%A9tudes
• Xx.com/pharmetudes

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles20 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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