About
René Pigot is a partner at Accuracy. He has around twenty years of professional experience in the area of economics and strategy consulting.
His work at Accuracy centres on decision-making projects for corporations and investment funds on topics such as economic modelling, competitiveness analyses and assessments of market dynamics primarily in the energy, and more specifically, the nuclear sector.
René is also involved as an economic and financial expert in commercial and competition cases on behalf of law firms, whether for plaintiffs or defendants. As such, he regularly provides oral and written expert evidence before various courts and administrative authorities.
René speaks French, English and German.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree at Centrale Lille
- Post-graduate diploma at HEC Paris
In-depth expertise
René works on complex projects combining finance and strategy such as business modelling and business plan construction, synergy assessment or value creation assessment. He has in-depth knowledge of the telecoms and energy industries.
René is also regularly appointed as an economic and financial expert in various disputes. He assists both claimants and defendants in quantifying damages stemming from contractual breaches, early contract termination, collusion or abuses of dominance.
In the context of transactions, he advises corporations on how to navigate merger control processes by contributing to their design, preparing notification filings and interacting with competition authorities.
Example of engagements
Business strategy
- Strategic and financial support of an SMR project in the development of a new business line relative to the closure of the nuclear fuel cycle
- Independent expert opinion on the robustness of the EPR2 programme cost model and the related remuneration level depending on the regulation schemes and financing arrangements
- Strategic and financial review of several energy efficiency market players involved in the production of white certificates across Europe
- Business plan modelling of several renewable energy producers (solar, wind, biomass, thermic), mobile operators (MNOs and MVNOs) and fibre network operators
- Assistance to a large LNG market player in the definition of its market dynamics and pricing strategy
Dispute
- Appointed as an economic expert in many litigation cases in the mobile telecommunications sector on various matters (handset subsidies, 5G commercial launch, national roaming, unrevealed consumer credit, discriminatory maintenance of the copper network, deployment delay of the fibre network)
- Competition economic expert for a large retailer before the FCA in the context of the takeover of 200 points of sales to assess catchment areas and related competition risks
- Assessment of the damage suffered by a major French electricity provider from the French State following the application of a decree securing additional nuclear power-based power generation for alternative operators
- Economic and financial expert in the context of private enforcement proceedings relative to various cartels (decommissioning and nuclear waste treatment services, laundry detergents, home and personal care products, packaged flour, truck industry, fresh milk products)
- Assessment of damages for various renewable energy producers pursuant to technical outages