About
Wanis Kessaci is a Director at Accuracy with over ten years of professional experience, having joined the firm in 2016. He specialises in valuation, advising clients both on strategic corporate matters and in dispute contexts.
He supports senior management and boards in making key strategic and financial decisions related to portfolio management, capital allocation, and growth strategies, leveraging in-depth valuation analyses.
Wanis also has significant experience in damages assessment, having acted on litigation cases across multiple jurisdictions, including before French courts and international arbitration tribunals.
He is fluent in French, English and Arabic.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in corporate finance from Dauphine
In-depth expertise
Wanis is specialises in valuation and value analysis, with experience across both asset-level and company-wide valuations in a wide range of contexts. His work spans accounting matters (including purchase price allocations and impairment testing), tax-related assignments (such as transfer pricing and portfolio valuations), and strategic engagements (including portfolio strategy reviews, investment and divestment assessments, and the preparation and review of business plans).
Wanis has also developed strong expertise in damages assessment. He has been involved in disputes covering a broad spectrum of situations, including breach of contract, expropriation, shareholder disputes, transaction-related matters, and intellectual property issues, across multiple industries and jurisdictions. His work in this area is primarily focused on the valuation of lost profits, as well as assets and businesses.
Example of engagements
Financial assessment and valuation
- Conducted numerous Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) assignments for leading groups across sectors including telecommunications, advertising, leisure, energy, and healthcare.
- Performed multiple valuation engagements in the context of impairment testing and employee share/investment plans.
- Reviewed financial and strategic business plans to identify key value drivers and optimization opportunities for a company operating in the agribusiness sector.
- Assessed business plans and valuation scenarios for a potential investment aimed at strengthening vertical integration in the cosmetics industry.
- Delivered a fairness opinion in the context of a squeeze-out transaction involving a telecommunications operator.
Damage assessment and valuation in litigation and arbitration contexts
- Renewable energy – France Financial expert in a dispute between consortium partners in an ICC arbitration
- Defense – France Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in an ICC arbitration concerning the abrupt termination of a commercial relationship.
- Port Infrastructure – North Africa: Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in an ICSID arbitration related to an expropriation case.
- Logistics – North Africa: Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in a pre-arbitration context involving the blockage of a joint venture for the development and operation of logistics platforms.
- Cement – North Africa: Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in an ICC arbitration following the cancellation of a plant expansion project.
- Real Estate – Algeria: Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in an ICSID arbitration following the non-completion of a real estate development project.
- Petrochemicals – France: Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in a dispute before a French commercial court for breach of contractual obligations.
- Airport – Libya: Damage assessment in the context of a case brought before the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office involving corruption of foreign public officials.
- Automotive – Romania / France: Financial expert responsible for damage assessment in a dispute before a French commercial court concerning the abrupt termination of a commercial relationship.