The team Finexsi

OUR PARTNERS

Olivier Peronnet
Olivier Peronnet

Chartered accountant

Statutory Auditor registered with the Paris Appeal Court since 1991
Legal Expert registered with the Paris Appeal Court (since 2001) and approved by the Cour de Cassation (since 2008)

Graduate of the HEC business school

Postgraduate diploma in Taxation (Paris V – University of Paris Descartes)

English speaker

Olivier Péronnet is one of Finexsi’s founding partners. He was previously a Manager (audit, statutory audit, organisation) with Arthur Andersen, before becoming partner at FCC Audit & Conseil and then Chairman of Péronnet & Associés. Olivier is a member of numerous professional associations. He is a member of the French society of expert witnesses in finance and diagnostics (Compagnie Nationale des Experts Judiciaires en Finance et Diagnostic – CNEJFD), a member of the French professional association of independent appraisers (Association Professionnelle des Experts Indépendants – APEI), a member of the French society of financial advisors and appraisers (Compagnie des Conseils et Experts Financiers – CCEF), a member of the French society of valuers (Société Française des Évaluateurs – SFEV), a member of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC), a member of the valuation committee of the French society of statutory auditors (Commission d’évaluation de la Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes) and chairman of the French society of court-appointed chartered accountants (Compagnie Nationale des Experts Comptables Judiciaires – CNECJ). Olivier is also an external lecturer providing continuing professional development courses for judges at the French National Magistrates’ School (Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature – ENM).

Areas of specialisation :

 

    • Assignments as expert appraiser or advisor in connection with litigation and the quantification of harm (legal, arbitration, representations and warranties, operating losses, etc.)

 

    • Corporate finance and business valuations (M&A support, fairness opinions, business plans, impairment tests, company valuations)

 

    • Legal and contractual audits

 

    • Asset contribution and merger appraisals

 

Olivier Courau
Olivier Courau

Chartered accountant

Statutory Auditor registered with the Paris Appeal Court

Legal Expert registered with the Paris Appeal Court (since 2020)

Graduate of Bordeaux ESC business school

English speaker

Olivier Courau joined Finexsi as a Manager in 1998. He is now a partner in the firm. Olivier is a member of the French professional association of independent appraisers (Association Professionnelle des Experts Indépendants – APEI), a member of the French society of financial advisors and appraisers (Compagnie des Conseils et Experts Financiers – CCEF), a member of the French society of valuers (Société Française des Évaluateurs – SFEV) and is registered on the list of legal experts at the Paris Appeal Court since January 1, 2020.

Areas of specialisation :

Olivier is responsible for litigation support and quantification of harm assignments (representations and warranties, earn-out clauses, etc.) and business and financial instrument valuation assignments.
He also takes part in statutory, merger and legal audit assignments.

Christophe Lambert
Christophe Lambert

Chartered accountant

Statutory Auditor registered with the Paris Appeal Court
Graduate of Tours ESC business school
Fluent English speaker

Christophe joined Finexsi in 2011 as Managing Partner after working for 12 years at Ernst & Young in Paris, in the large corporation audit department.
Christophe has extensive experience of audit and consultancy assignments with groups and listed companies in an international environment. In particular, his work covers the manufacturing, high-tech and investment fund sectors.

Areas of specialisation :

Christophe has acknowledged expertise in complex corporate audit work involving multiple locations, international accounting standards (IFRSs and US GAAP), regulated financial information and market transactions.
Christophe works as an appraiser on mandates authorised by the French and European antitrust authorities, involving the control or implementation of disposal processes (structural remedies) and the control of behavioural remedies.
He also works on support and advisory assignments relating to merger, acquisition and disposal transactions: disposal preparations, pitching and negotiation, buy-side due diligence, carve-outs and assistance regarding representations and warranties.
Christophe also handles support assignments in relation to disputes (assessing harm, helping to put together the claims file etc.), financial appraisals and statutory audits/mergers.

Lucas Robin
Lucas Robin

Chartered accountant

Statutory Auditor registered with the Paris Appeal Court

Legal Expert registered with the Paris Appeal Court (since 2022)

Graduate of ISC Paris
Holder of a masters degree in Actuarial Science and Management (Reims Management School)
English speaker

Lucas Robin joined Finexsi in 2001 after starting his career at Cailliau Dedouit et Associé and then working as a manager at Ernst & Young in its banking, insurance and real estate department.
Lucas has a great deal of experience in valuation assignments, which he has been performing for more than 15 years. Every year, he leads a training course in financial valuation techniques for chartered accountants and statutory auditors.

Areas of specialisation :

Lucas frequently works on assignments involving the valuation of companies and financial instruments, and provides dispute-related support (assessment of harm, analysis of complex financial products and contracts etc.).
Lucas also supervises statutory audit assignments for listed and unlisted companies.

Errick Uzzan
Errick Uzzan

Chartered accountant

Graduate of ICS Bégué
Holder of a Certificate in Finance from the University of Berkeley – San Francisco
English speaker

Errick Uzzan joined Finexsi as a partner in 2013. Previously, Errick worked for more than 12 years in the Transaction Advisory Services teams of Big Four accountancy firms (Ernst & Young and PriceWaterhouseCoopers).
Errick has international deal experience, having worked in New York and Tel Aviv for several years.

Areas of specialisation :

Errick is involved in Finexsi’s international development.
He works mainly on transaction assignments for companies and private equity funds, specialising in due diligence.

Jean-Marc BRICHET
Jean-Marc BRICHET

Chartered accountant

Graduate of ESLSCA Paris

English speaker

Before joining Finexsi in September 2017, Jean-Marc Brichet started his career with Coopers & Lybrand Audit in the Paris office (now PwC) and then worked for Ricol Lasteyrie from 1997 to 2017 where he became a partner in 2005.

Jean-Marc has significant experience in valuation assignments, which he has been performing for 25 years.

Areas of specialisation:

Jean-Marc frequently works on valuation assignments either in a contractual framework or in the context of market operations. He also provides assistance in the valuation of financial damages in a litigation context. He is also regularly involved in asset contribution and merger appraisals assignments.

Vincent Collot
Vincent Collot

Chartered accountant

Graduated of the Management School of Bordeaux

English speaker

Vincent joined Finexsi in 2009 after 4 years at Ernst & Young in Luxembourg and Paris.
Vincent has extensive experience in audit for international groups and listed companies in Industry, financial and Media sectors. He developed a significant experience in French accounting standards and IFRS.

Areas of specialisation:

Vincent is involved in support and advisory assignments within the framework of mergers, acquisitions and asset sales.
His areas of specialty include quantifying economic damages for commercial litigation. Expert to the parties in the context of disputes of various kinds, involving assessment of losses, expert’s report for Court, breaches of agreement, fraud, market abuse, etc.

Olivier Roussel
Olivier Roussel

Audit & Advisory Partner

Neoma Business School

Fluent English speaker

Olivier joined FINEXSI in 2019 as Partner after 14 years at the Paris office of Ernst & Young in the Large Corporates Audit department.

 

Prior to this, Olivier worked for the Eutelsat Group as CFO for the Euro Broadband business unit (10 subsidiaries in Europe) based in Turin, and then in Lausanne, in charge of a joint venture with an industrial partner.

 

Then, as partner and Managing Director of Roëdl & Partners Com Audit, an accountancy, audit and consulting firm with 35 employees, Olivier was in charge of developing advisory activities.

 

With this wealth of experience, Olivier has joined us to look after audit and consulting activities specifically.

Areas of specialisation:

Olivier has recognised expertise in auditing companies in complex environments: multi-location, international accounting standards (IFRS and US GAAP), regulated financial reporting and capital market transactions.

 

Over the years, Olivier has worked with finance departments on accounting and reporting projects, activities which he will develop at FINEXSI in Accounting and Financial Advisory.

Our Senior Advisors

Michel Gauthier
Michel Gauthier

Senior Advisor

Chartered accountant

Studied at the Ecole Polytechnique

PhD in Economics

Statutory Auditor

Prior to joining Finexsi as Senior Advisor, Michel Gauthier was Audit and Financial Consulting partner at Peronnet Gauthier et Associés, before moving to Arthur Andersen and finally EY.

He held a number of roles at EY: managing director of EY France (2002-2015), partner in charge of the Transactions department (acquisitions, valuations, restructuring) (2009-2013), and member of the EMEIA Executive Committee in charge of Partner Matters (2012-2015).

He was also legal expert at the Paris and Versailles Courts of Appeal from 1990 to 2006 and from 2014 and 2016.

Areas of specialisation :

Appraiser or financial advisor for financial litigation cases

Corporate finance and company valuations (independent appraisals, business plans, company valuations etc.)

Management consulting and financial advisory on accounting and financial issues

Advice on professional companies’ remuneration systems (chartered accountants, solicitors etc.)

Statutory appraiser for asset transfers and mergers.

Daniel Beaumont
Daniel Beaumont

Senior Advisor

HEC

Daniel Beaumont joined Finexsi in 2020 as a Senior Advisor.

 

He started his career in financial markets, working on the underlying assets (stocks, options, or bonds) and on the analysis and implementation of any financial transactions (intermediation, management, arbitrage in positions of responsibility).

 

As early as 1977, he started to build valuation models based on the Capital Market Line (Droite de Marché) with two variables: profitability and risk.

 

He has continued his career as an expert and consultant at Associés en Finance, where he worked more than two decades, developing, and monitoring the TRIVAL valuation model, based on 500 European or international companies, and including the size factor.

 

In 2003, Daniel co-founded “Société Française des Évaluateurs (SFEV)” and was President from 2008 to 2016.

 

He was also a member of Tereos’ Audit Committee from 2017 to 2021.

Our managers

Adeline BURNAND
Adeline BURNAND

Director

Graduate of ESSCA

English speaker

Adeline joined Finexsi in 2006 after first working at an independent audit firm.
She has extensive audit experience, covering both listed and unlisted groups.
Adeline also has a great deal of expertise in statutory and merger audits and in independent appraisals.

Areas of specialisation :

Adeline does audit work involving a variety of financial and operational issues for groups of global scale.
She carries out valuation work in relation to asset contribution and merger appraisals.
Adeline also performs assistance assignments relating to disputes before courts and arbitration tribunals.
Finally, she assists clients with their internal control work.

Dalila LAMRIBEN
Dalila LAMRIBEN

Director

Chartered accountant

Graduate of Paris-Dauphine university

English speaker

After spending four years at consultancy firm ADG International, Dalila joined Finexsi in 2009.
Dalila has extensive experience in auditing consolidated financial statements according to IFRSs and French accounting standards.
She also does a lot of work on assistance assignments relating to disputes, and prepares dispute analysis dossiers.

Areas of specialisation:

Dalila’s audit work involves managing statutory audit assignments for listed companies and international groups.
She contributes to assistance assignments involving disputes and assessments of harm.
Dalila also carries out contractual assessment and statutory audit assignments.

Maxime ROGEON
Maxime ROGEON

Director

Graduate of the IESEG business school

English speaker

Maxime joined Finexsi in 2012 after 3 years at Mazars in Paris.
Maxime has extensive experience in audit for international groups and listed companies in Industry and financial sectors. He developed a significant experience in financial valuations in contractual assessment and also works on asset contribution and merger audit assignments.

Areas of specialisation:

Maxime frequently works on assignments involving the financial valuations in connection with contractual valuations or public offers (fairness opinions).
He is involved in litigation support, (in particular in shareholders and executives liability) and quantification of harm assignments.
Maxime also takes part in corporate audit work for industry groups.

Julien BIANCIOTTO
Julien BIANCIOTTO

Senior Manager

Ecole Polytechnique

ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique)

English speaker

Julien joined Finexsi in 2016 after spending 9 years with Associés en Finance.
He has significant experience in financial valuation. He has also developed an expertise in litigation assistance in the context of disputes with a strong financial dimension.

Areas of specialisation:

Julien regularly works on valuation assignments in the context of market transactions (fairness opinions) but also on contractual valuation assignments. He also carries out valuation assignments relating to optional products (warrants, derivatives, management package). Finally, Julien regularly provides assistance in litigation, in particular for companies in the banking and financial sectors.

Eddie GINS
Eddie GINS

Senior Manager

Degree in chartered accountancy

Master’s degree in financial engineering – Sorbonne

Intern at Compagnie Nationale des Experts Comptables de Justice

English speaker

After seven years at William Nahum Associés & Partenaires, Eddie joined Finexsi in 2017.

Eddie has considerable expertise in evaluating economic damages within the framework of legal disputes (civil, criminal or arbitrage proceedings).

Areas of specialisation:

Eddie is regularly involved in the valuation of financial and stock market damages within the framework of legal disputes.

He also conducts financial valuation assignments (contractual valuations and fairness opinions) and merger/contribution audits.

Lastly, Eddie performs statutory audits of listed companies.

Marc de la BEDOYERE
Marc de la BEDOYERE

Senior Manager

Specialist Master’s degree in Financial Engineering – EM Lyon

Master’s degree in management science – specialising in corporate finance – La Sorbonne

English speaker

Marc joined Finexsi in 2019 after gaining initial experience in mergers and acquisitions and six years at Ledouble.

He has extensive expertise in financial valuations and asset transfer and merger audits.

Areas of specialisation:

Marc is regularly involved in financial valuation assignments within the framework of contractual valuations or market transactions (independent appraisals).

 

He also acts as statutory appraiser for asset transfers and mergers.

Lastly, Marc is also involved in litigation assistance and damages valuations for the firm’s corporate clients.

 

Aymar de la DURE
Aymar de la DURE

Senior Manager

Master’s in Audit from ESSCA

Certified accountant

Fluent English speaker

Aymar joined Finexsi in September 2019 after around seven years at EY in Paris within the Audit department and then the Fraud Investigation & Disputes department.

Having always worked within an international environment, Aymar has significant expertise in auditing listed groups and SMEs, investigating financial fraud (corruption, misappropriation of assets, financial statement fraud, etc.), as well as reviewing compliance procedures.

He has also developed considerable expertise in evaluating financial damages within the framework of legal disputes before civil or criminal courts or in international arbitration proceedings.

Areas of specialisation:

Aymar is regularly involved in the valuation of financial damages within the framework of legal disputes.

He also carries out contractual audits and statutory auditing assignments for major French and foreign groups.

Thomas LIBS
Thomas LIBS

Senior Manager

Master degree in Banking and Finance – Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University

English speaker

Thomas joined Finexsi in 2019, after 6 years with Associés en Finance, an independent player in the field of valuation and financial expertise.
He has significant experience in financial valuation and financial advisory assignments for listed and unlisted companies.

Areas of specialisation:

Thomas is regularly involved in contractual valuations and market operations (independent appraisals).

He also carries out advisory and financial engineering assignments.

Michel RIZZI
Michel RIZZI

Manager – Information Systems

Graduate of Neoma Business School

English speaker

Michel joined Finexsi in 1999, and has extensive experience in auditing information systems and advising on IT projects.
He specialises in providing project owner assistance to accounting and financial departments as part of projects to overhaul information systems, acting as project manager.
He helps Finexsi clients define automation and control processes involved in the preparation of financial reporting and co-ordination tools.
He contributes his expertise to audit assignments and to the introduction of internal control procedures and tools.
He also assists with Finexsi’s statutory audit assignments by auditing information systems.

Areas of specialisation :

Project management advice and assistance
Internal control assistance
Audits on information systems as part of statutory audit assignments

Alice WIDENLOCHER
Alice WIDENLOCHER

Senior Manager

Graduate of Reims Management School (Neoma)

Advanced diploma in accounting and management (DSCG)

Degree in chartered accountancy

English speaker

Alice joined Finexsi in September 2012.

She has been involved in a number of audits of company financial statements and consolidated financial statements under IFRS or French accounting standards in a variety of business sectors.

Alice has also developed expertise in assistance and consulting projects within the framework of litigation.

Areas of specialisation:

In auditing, Alice manages statutory auditing assignments for major French groups with an international presence.

Within the framework of legal disputes, she is also involved in litigation assistance and valuation of financial damages for the firm’s corporate clients.

 

Alice also benefits from extensive expertise in merger and contribution audits and internal control advisory services.

Antoine BERNARD
Antoine BERNARD

Manager

Chartered accountant

English speaker

Antoine joined Finexsi in April 2018 after 5 years in audit and accounting firms.
He has significant experience in legal and contractual auditing and is involved in a large number of audit assignments for company accounts and consolidated accounts under IFRS or French standards, in various sectors. Antoine has also developed an expertise in consulting and advisory.

Areas of specialisation:

Antoine manages statutory audit assignments for the account of large French groups with an international scope. Antoine also carries out advisory assignments to help finance departments on accounting projects, reporting and internal processes and implementation of methodological tools.