About
Alice is a Director at Accuracy. She specializes in transaction advisory services, assisting international corporations and financial investors with transaction-related challenges, including financial due diligence, carve-outs and valuation topics.
Alice also has extensive experience in assessing damages within expert witness reports in both arbitration and litigation contexts .
Alice works across various sectors, including manufacturing, software, mining, infrastructure and retail. Much of her recent work has included international cross-border transactions in the United Kingdom, France, Europe and North America.
Alice holds a Master of Science in Management from the HEC School of Management. She also holds the Chartered Accountant Diploma from the French Institute of Chartered Accounts and is a qualified accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Alice is fluent in English, a native French speaker, and has intermediate proficiency in Spanish.
Qualification
- M.Sc. Management, HEC Grande Ecole (2014)
- Chartered Accountant Diploma (DEC) – French Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ordre des Experts- Comptables, France) (2019)
- Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (2023)
In-depth expertise
Transaction Advisory Services
Alice assists corporates and financial investors with transaction-related challenges. This includes financial due diligence, carve-outs, business plan preparation and review, valuation work, complex accounting issues, SPA support, synergy assessment and refinancing topics.
Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration and Litigation
Alice has contributed to quantum expert reports for various commercial and investor-state arbitrations under ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID rules, as well as litigation cases. Her work includes assessing lost profit and sunk costs, particularly in the mining, hotel and waste management sectors.
Business Performance
Alice helps corporations analyzing their financial performance, particularly in loss-making long-term activities. She also advises multinational corporations on complex transformation projects.
Example of engagement
Transaction Support
- Assisted a large international manufacturing company with the carve-out and merger of its software activities, including financial sell-side due diligence, assistance with business plan and SPA negotiations
- Assisted a multinational corporation with the carve-out and merger of some of its manufacturing activities, including financial sell-side due diligence, assistance with business plan and SPA negotiations
- Assisted a financial investor with the bolt-on acquisition of a family manufacturing business, including financial buy-side due diligence and SPA negotiations
Valuation Work in Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration and Litigation
- Expert report for the claimant on the lost profits to a mining company from the expropriation of its rights in Asia in an ICSID arbitration – £500 million claimed
- Expert report for the respondent on the lost profits to an airport company from the expropriation of its rights in Asia in an ICC arbitration
- Expert report for the claimant on the lost profits to a hotel company from a breach of the franchise agreement exclusion zone in a litigation case
Other Valuation Work
- Carve-out and valuation of business segments of an international luxury goods group
- Fairness opinion on an international industrial group before a merger
Business Performance
- Financial performance analysis of multi-million loss-making long-term manufacturing activities of a multinational group
- Long-term contract review in the software engineering industry on a multi-million loss project in South America