About
Justine Schmit is a director at Accuracy, with more than 12 years of professional experience as a generalist in corporate finance.
Justine advises large and medium-sized companies in their decision-making processes, as well as their financial operations, such as transactions, business plan modelling, valuation, disputes and fraud cases.
Justine works across a variety of sectors, including real estate, media and technology, healthcare, construction, and transportation.
Prior to joining Accuracy, Justine worked as a financial auditor at PwC.
Justine speaks French and English.
Qualifications
- ESCP Europe master’s in management (2012)
In-depth expertise
Transactions
Justine provides financial advisory services to corporations and private equity firms in the context of acquisitions and disposals. She regularly conducts buy-side financial due diligence, sell-side due diligence, vendor assistance, and BP preparation engagements.
Litigation and arbitration
Justine has been involved in several dispute resolution processes; quantum draft assessments, reviews, and analysis; and quantification of damages for commercial litigation cases, including construction contracts.
Decision-making
Justine regularly performs engagements where financial, accounting and modelling skills are required to answer the strategic issues of her clients.
Examples of engagements
Transaction support
- Sell-side and buy-side due diligence for various real estate clients (developers and asset managers), notably providing rent roll analysis
- Numerous buy-side and sell-side due diligence engagements in healthcare, telecoms, transportation
Litigation and arbitration
- Assessment of losses incurred in relation to a breach of exclusivity in a concession agreement in Africa (€340m claim – ICSID arbitration)
- Assessment of losses incurred in relation to a breach of several clauses of the concession agreement in Africa (€50m claim – ICC arbitration)
- Assessment of losses in relation to a construction delay in the context of an amicable settlement in the power plants sector (€10m)
- Assessment of losses arising from unfair competition in the mobile telecommunications sector
Decision-making
- Review of the different methods of cost coverage obtained by healthcare institutions, including the review of purchases and the pricing methods of the institutions
- Review of the historical financial performance of a company in the field of electronic data collection & analysis, including the preparation of reporting, budget and business plan
Other
- PMO engagements
- Valuation of IP rights for media companies
- Justine has been in charge of monitoring Google’s commitments in negotiations on neighbouring rights with the French press, acting as a monitoring trustee for the French Competition Authority.