The Launch of Côme Athlete Office

Côme Maison of Finance is launching Côme Athlete Office, within its Sports, Media & Entertainment division, a brand dedicated to high-level athletes, designed to convert a sporting career into lasting wealth. Alongside Vanessa and David Douillet, the teams at Côme Athlete Office offer an integrated offering, structured around career stages and driven by results: wealth engineering, listed and unlisted investments, family governance, exceptional real estate, and concierge services.

Côme Athlete Office draws on the values that define high-level sport — resilience, self-surpassing, discipline, team spirit, respect, and fair play — to deliver a complete financial, human, and psychological array of support and services.

Why an “Athlete Office”, and why now?

An athlete’s career concentrates into a handful of years, defined by intensity, pressure, and uncertainty. Irregular income, injury risk, short cycles, structuring decisions that must be made very early, media exposure: these are challenges that call for rigorous, stable, and multidimensional support.

On the financial front, wealth awareness and the ability to make the right decisions from the very first contract fundamentally alter the trajectory over 20 to 30 years. On the human front, managing transitions — doubt, injury, a change of club or country, preparing for life after sport — demands an approach that weaves together financial expertise, mental support, and personal guidance.

An embodied positioning: Vanessa and David Douillet

Together, Vanessa and David Douillet bring to Côme Athlete Office an intimate understanding of an athlete’s life: gruelling seasons, performance cycles, injuries, career transitions, media exposure, and family dynamics. Their combined experience — a career at the very highest sporting level, and a proven track record in psychological support and successful professional transitions — strengthens the human dimension of our
approach.

They work alongside Côme’s teams with a single objective: turning performance into wealth, while protecting the person behind the athlete.

An architecture that follows the rhythm of a career

To support each athlete individually, whatever stage they are at.

Act I — Entry & Ascent

At the start, everything accelerates: first successes, first contracts, first solicitations. The priority is to secure and structure, to lay the right financial and psychological foundations.

We begin by establishing the legal and tax framework: image rights (IP/NIL), dedicated entities, international structuring; solid foundations that prevent future pitfalls.

We put in place risk protection tailored to the discipline (injury, incapacity, liability), which is essential in a career where resilience and managing the unexpected are vital skills.

This foundation is supported by precise cash-flow management: budgeting, treasury, monthly consolidated reporting, to maintain control, anticipate needs, and avoid impulsive decisions.

Our “Athlete Wealth Training” programme installs the essential reflexes: understanding the first contract, managing one’s image, reading a cash-flow statement, organising one’s tax position; skills that build autonomy and confidence.

Act II — Peak Career

When a career reaches its apex, the stakes shift: capital must grow, diversify, and be protected, without
constraining the sporting trajectory.

On the listed side, we build open-architecture allocations aligned with risk tolerance and career duration. On the unlisted side, access is selective and methodical: venture, growth, LBO, private debt, club deals, with rigorous due diligence and careful monitoring of liquidity horizons.

We also mobilise exceptional real estate and real assets (hospitality, infrastructure) to generate stable, indexed returns in line with long-term needs.

This stage is also one of family governance (charters, vehicles, decision-making processes) and private secretariat services, ensuring smooth execution day to day. We integrate the human dimensions as well: managing success, personal balance, psychological support through moments of doubt, preserving the family circle, all determining factors in sustaining performance.

Act III — Post-Career & Legacy

The transition to life after sport is often the most sensitive: redefining identity, choosing a new direction, taking on new commitments, repositioning the family circle. We ease this transition with an approach that is at once strategic, human, and structured.

We prepare the professional reinvention, with a network capable of opening the right doors: entrepreneurship, advisory, media, charitable engagement. In parallel, we organise legacy planning: gifts, foundations, bequests, structures adapted to international situations.

The Côme Ensemble endowment fund, dedicated to equal opportunity, makes it possible to align sporting, family, and societal ambitions. Psychological support (managing the void of post-competition life, reconfiguring priorities, personal equilibrium) completes the financial approach, to ensure a serene and lasting transition.

Turning Performance into Wealth

With Côme Athlete Office, even the most singular careers find a demanding, human, and bespoke framework to become lasting legacies. Carried by the values of sport and the expertise of Côme, these extraordinary trajectories will transform performance into wealth.