On November 14, 2006 the Capital Finance newsletter, the Accuracy consultancy company and the Sarrau Thomas Couderc law firm organised a breakfast debate on the theme of: “Management packages as part of LBO operations: new aspects and challenges”.

The Accur’option ® evaluation tool developed by Accuracy offers a useful response to these problems.

Franck Moulins, Journalist and Departmental Manager for Capital Finance, ran the debate, which included speeches by:

• Frédéric Duponchel, Managing Director, Accuracy,
• Christophe Leclerc, Associate, Accuracy,
• Hervé-Antoine Couderc, Lawyer & partner, Sarrau Thomas Couderc,
• Stéphane de Lassus, Lawyer & partner, Sarrau Thomas Couderc.

…on the following points:

• The modelling and comparability of management compensation packages
• The challenges involved in valuing management compensation packages
• Increasing the number of people who to benefit from a management compensation package
• Extension of these remuneration systems beyond LBO operations