{"id":2013,"date":"2023-10-03T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accuracy.com\/?post_type=team&#038;p=2013"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:16:26","slug":"florence-westermann","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.accuracy.com\/en_gb\/team\/florence-westermann\/","title":{"rendered":"Westermann Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About<\/h2>\n<p>Florence Westermann is a partner at Accuracy. She has more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance and is specialised in restructuring cases and complex transaction support engagements.<\/p>\n<p>Florence started her career working for a receiver and joined Accuracy in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Within Accuracy, Florence helped to develop the restructuring advisory practice. She gained an extensive and practical knowledge of the legal French receivership environment and financial experience to support companies in difficult financial situations or advise financial investors and debt holders in uncertain contexts. She also conducted numerous transaction support engagements for both corporate groups and investment funds, especially in distressed environments.<\/p>\n<p>Florence speaks French and English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Florence is a graduate from HEC Paris Business School, 2003 (entrepreneurship spec.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rankings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexology.com\/firms\/1147960\/florence_westermann\">Lexology Index<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leadersleague.com\/fr\/firm\/accuracy\/france-1\/restructuring-entreprises-en-difficulte\">Leaders League &#8211; Restructuring<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalrestructuringreview.com\/survey\/grr-100\/2025\/organization-profile\/accuracy\">Global Restructuring Review GRR100<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a tabindex=\"0\">In-depth expertise<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Florence led numerous financial diagnosis engagements, advising companies, shareholders or debt holders in both\u00a0<em>in bonis<\/em>\u00a0and judicial environment. Her expertise consists of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Independent Business reviews<\/li>\n<li>Review \/ elaboration of business plans<\/li>\n<li>Cash-flow forecasts modelling and cash requirement assessment<\/li>\n<li>Turnaround scenarios modelling<\/li>\n<li>Distressed due diligence in\u00a0<em>in bonis<\/em>\u00a0or judicial context<\/li>\n<li>Assistance in discussions with financial stakeholder, shareholders, and judicial organs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a tabindex=\"0\">Example of engagements<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Financial expertise in restructuring context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assistance to retail groups in the context of challenging their cash-flow forecasts<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to LBO groups in the context of their debt restructuring (paper, transportation, food industries)<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to a large French energy company in the context of a safeguard proceedings (diagnosis, preparation of the safeguard plan)<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to two footwear and fashion accessory companies throughout insolvency proceedings and disposal process<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to a major actor in outdoor resorts in the context of its debt restructuring<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to a French retailer in the context of the acquisition of several distressed businesses<\/li>\n<li>Distressed due diligence and BP modelling for a large French hotel, catering and distribution conglomerate in the context of the acquisition of a commercial catering company.<\/li>\n<li>Assistance for the acquisition of a distressed business of a French media company.<\/li>\n<li>Assistance to shareholders in the context of underperforming subsidiaries divestment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transaction support<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due diligence for private equity funds (acquisition of a data processing company, a property diagnosis inspector and a European leader in small equipment distribution and the disposal of a service platform company for real estate).<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"featured_media":36711,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"attributs-team":[195,184],"class_list":["post-2013","team","type-team","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","attributs-team-france","attributs-team-partner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Westermann Florence - Accuracy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex,nofollow\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accuracy.com\/en_gb\/team\/florence-westermann\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Westermann Florence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About Florence Westermann is a partner at Accuracy. 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