W.Lease was founded in 2001 by Jérôme Wydauw, 46 years old, 15 years of experience in banking, a specialist in yacht financing and familiar with the yacht-building sector. In his time spent in banking looking for solutions for his clients, he was always limited by the fact that he could offer only the products marketed by the bank he was working for. It was out of his determination to take things one step further into a new form of upmarket consultancy providing yacht owners with truly multidisciplinary expertise that W.Lease was born.