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Corporate Finance

Steering, financing and adding value to the business, with tools and advice that match what is at stake.

Our teams give finance departments, operational managers and treasurers of large and mid-sized companies advice and hands-on support to create value and improve their performance in a lasting, measurable way.

Who is it for?

  • Finance departments and treasurers
  • Executives of growing SMEs
  • Investors and funds
  • Companies in difficulty

From diagnosis to action

We build the tools and support their implementation.

Large-company experience

Proven methods, adapted to the size of each business.

A quantified approach

Decisions backed by models, scenarios and indicators.

Outsourced finance function

Your HISAB CFO: the expertise of a finance director without a full-time hire.

Overloaded schedules, limited budgets, increasingly technical financial matters: outsourcing all or part of the finance function gives you access to an expert focused on strategy and forecasting, without the cost of a hire. You also avoid the investment needed to digitise the finance function and benefit from suitable processes and tools.

Financial management

  • A management controller to reinforce you at busy times: closing, due diligence, change
  • A realistic budget and the path to achieve it
  • Dashboards and performance indicators

Financial optimisation

  • Converting profit into cash
  • Having more liquidity
  • Getting paid faster and more securely

Profitability

  • Finding hidden margin
  • Maximising value added
  • Working differently to earn more

Financial analysis

  • Deciding on solid foundations
  • Assessing the risks of your projects
  • Comparing financing options
  • Anticipating the success of your projects

Management control

Diagnosing and optimising performance.

Management control sets the objectives of each responsibility centre, measures results and makes it possible to steer the business. Our staff work within finance departments to make data reliable.

Implementation

  • Cost accounting and budgeting process
  • Forecast financial indicators (budget, business case) and actuals (production costs, margins)
  • Budgeting process and management reporting tailored to the group
  • Financial monitoring of projects
  • Forecast operating accounts for a new business line

Analysis

  • Analysis of results and variances between actual and budget
  • Summary notes
  • Interpretation of the main financial aggregates

Consolidation and reporting

Reliable, readable group accounts.

Once the scope is defined and the subsidiaries’ accounts closed, consolidation depends on the type of control: full consolidation (subsidiaries’ accounts taken in at 100%), proportionate consolidation for joint control, or the equity method.

Our support

  • Routine preparation of consolidated accounts
  • One-off or recurring reinforcement during consolidation
  • Carrying out all or part of the processing
  • Experience of market tools: SAP BFC, Oracle HFM…
  • Choosing a consolidation system
  • Support for specific projects and transactions

Treasury management

Cash is the foundation of every decision, internally and with partners.

Managing cash well means knowing the working capital the operating cycle requires and keeping the corresponding liquidity. With references among large companies, our team supports the transformation of the treasury function, in coordination with the other functions of the finance department.

  • Critical review of the treasury function’s organisation
  • Process optimisation and centralisation opportunities
  • Monthly treasury procedure
  • Forecast management and cash flow projections
  • Levers for improving working capital
  • Steering and performance measurement systems
  • Treasury reporting
  • Audit of the treasury function
  • Investing surplus cash

Investment and financing choices

With you at every stage of your investments.

The finance function ensures that capital is invested profitably and risks are under control. We give you an informed opinion before you invest, then build the financing with you.

Deciding to invest

  • The right time to invest
  • Choosing between several projects
  • Economic and financial return
  • Calculating free cash flows, NPV and payback period

Financing

  • Equity, borrowing or leasing: comparing costs
  • Tax incentives
  • Legal and financial structuring of the project
  • Restructuring or refinancing existing borrowings
  • Delivering investment plans

Business valuation

Valuing your investments and assets.

Our dedicated team works on legal restructurings, disposals and acquisitions, tax filings, equity transactions and restructurings of companies in difficulty, in close coordination with the firm’s other practices.

Legal restructurings

  • Mergers and partial asset contributions
  • Company valuation and exchange ratio calculation
  • Business lines and intangible assets: goodwill, securities, trademarks, patents
  • Lease management, licences, royalty rates
  • Split ownership of securities: usufruct and bare ownership

Tax and standards

  • Tax returns: transfers for free or for consideration, property gains tax
  • Defending values during a tax audit
  • Impairment tests on significant assets (IAS 36)

Transactions and equity

  • Analysis of acquisition projects: value, risks, feasibility
  • Negotiation support, price clauses
  • Leveraged transactions and LBO buyout studies
  • Pre-IPO transactions
  • Business plans and turnaround plans for companies in difficulty

Transfer pricing

  • Audit of current policies and assessment of tax risks
  • Economic studies of intragroup flows, choice of method, benchmarks
  • Transfer pricing documentation
  • Assistance during audits, negotiation and advance pricing agreements

Real estate

  • Market value, rental value, value in use, leasehold value
  • Land residual value (developer’s appraisal)
  • Audit of real estate portfolios and value of property companies
  • Transfer value: inheritance, gift
  • Expropriation, eviction, pre-emption, lease renewals

Financial engineering and modelling

Modern tools to inform your major decisions.

In an uncertain, competitive environment, we build mathematical models under different scenarios so that decisions are as sound as possible: crisis situations, family SMEs, companies created by a demerger, entry of investment funds, companies under LBO.

Financial engineering

  • Financial diagnosis and analysis
  • Profitability and sensitivity studies
  • Financial risk studies
  • Steering models and financing plans
  • Feasibility studies for complex projects

Modelling

  • Financial forecasting model
  • Audit and strengthening of business models and forecasting models
  • Estimating enterprise value
  • Business plan
  • Projections and scenario simulation
  • Performance indicators and forecasting tools
  • Short-term action plans and medium-term sustainability

Fundraising

Financing growth by opening up the capital.

Equity raised is not repaid and requires no personal guarantee: investors are rewarded through the capital gain when they sell. It suits projects with strong potential over three to five years that require R&D, time to develop or significant investment, especially when banks expect equity to be strengthened.

We act as adviser and coordinator: selecting suitable investors, putting offers in competition and negotiating terms alongside you.

Leveraged transactions

  • LBO: acquisition financed partly by debt
  • OBO: buyout by a holding company owned by the executive and investors
  • Succession: MBO, MBI, BIMBO, family MBO
  1. Diagnosis and valuation

    Financial position, growth potential and outlook.

  2. Financial policy

    Amount to raise, split between equity, quasi-equity and debt.

  3. Business plan

    Presentation, forecasts, financing plan, NPV and payback period.

  4. Preparation

    Feasibility, sizing the need, information memorandum.

  5. Execution

    Identifying investors, equity story, comparing and optimising offers.

  6. Completion

    Coordination, data room, negotiation of entry terms, legal documents.

In plain terms
NPVNet present value adds up a project’s future cash flows, discounted to today’s value, minus the initial investment. A positive figure indicates a value-creating project.

What you receive

Concrete deliverables, written to be used

  • Budget, dashboard and monthly reporting
  • Cash flow forecast
  • Financial model and business plan
  • Reasoned valuation report
  • Financing file or investor memorandum

In practice

A typical engagement

All typical engagements
Corporate Finance

Part-time finance director

The situation

A growing mid-sized company has no CFO yet and is preparing a bank financing.

Our intervention

  • Setting up the budget and a monthly dashboard
  • Making the close reliable
  • Preparing the bank file and attending meetings

The intended result

A structured finance function without a full-time hire.

See the practice area Corporate Finance

Our approach

How an engagement unfolds

  1. Meeting

    We meet you to understand your expectations and present our solutions.

  2. Engagement letter

    Scope, timetable, allocation of tasks and fees suited to your budget.

  3. Delivery

    Documented methods, written control and monitoring procedures, a single point of contact.

  4. Report and follow-up

    Minutes, reports and support with implementation.

Frequently asked questions

What our clients ask us

How much does an outsourced finance function cost?

The cost depends on the number of days per month and the deliverables expected. It remains lower than a full-time hire.

Will the banks accept your business plan?

We build it with the assumptions and presentation banks and investors expect, and we prepare you to defend it.

Which valuation methods do you use?

Several cross-checked methods depending on the context: discounted cash flows, comparables, revalued net assets. The report explains each choice.

Looking for an independent, multidisciplinary firm?

Let’s meet to define your needs together. You will then receive an engagement letter suited to your situation and your budget.