Our partners

Bordeaux joined Advolis in 2017 after 12 years as partner in the Control Assurance practice of Deloitte France.

With dual IT and management expertise, his work principally covers IT auditing and consultancy on complex environments/projects.

His main practice areas are:

• IT governance (strategic alignment, cost control, benchmarking, etc.);
• transformation (business case, diagnostics/project recovery, project management support, mobilisation/support on key phases, change management, etc.);
• auditing and internal control (risk mapping, auditing, GRC, compliance with laws and regulations, security, fraud, data analytics, etc.).

Damien BOURG began his career at RSM Salustro Reydel, where he principally developed his expertise in the financial auditing of large French groups in the industrial and communication sectors.

Since Advolis was formed in 2004, he has, in particular, developed the consultancy business, which seeks to understand the financial environment and increase reliability, in terms of decision-making and/or the management of acquisition, reorganisation and restructuring projects.

His practice currently covers matters with complex operational and financial content, such as:

• support on company acquisitions and disposals (due diligence);
• analysing performance measurement and adapting related analytical processes;
• the critical review and design of business plans (groups, companies, projects, etc.);
• support with restructuring processes;
• implementing audit clauses.

Aurore spent the first eight years of her auditing career at PwC in Paris then spent two years in India (New Delhi) and two years in Ireland (Dublin) before joining Orfis in July 2016.

Aurore has more than 15 years’ experience in auditing and financial consultancy gained working for listed and unlisted companies both in France and abroad. 
Her main practice areas include:

• financial auditing under IFRS, French accounting principles and US GAAP and UK GAAP reporting;
• pre-listing support and market transactions: Assistance in preparing registration documents prior to listing, issuing prospectuses;
• the implementation and evaluation of internal control procedures with a view to providing greater operational effectiveness, enhancing information security and regulatory compliance (Sarbanes Oxley).

Edouard CORNUT CHAUVINC joined Orfis just over 20 years ago and became a partner in 2005.
He has acquired expertise in supporting executives at all stages in the development of their businesses.
He is a member of a number of networks, including CJD, Aten, CRA and CGPME.

His practice mainly covers accountancy for all types of companies and groups in key and complex phases of their business, such as: 

• incorporation, acquisitions;
• growth;
• disposal.

Olivier has dual experience in transaction structuring and financing and as an investment fund operator. 
He has had an international career, having spent ten years in the United States and having worked on cross-border transactions, thereby combining financial vision and an operational approach over the entire value generation process. His practice covers:

• Business combinations and fund-raising
• Acquisition of minority or controlling stakes 
• Preparation of business plans, financial modelling
• Financial structuring or restructuring, negotiations and relationships with banking and financial partners

His professional experience is focused on transactional and breakthrough phases and process and project management. It enables him to act as a corporate finance adviser with extensive expertise in the areas of valuations and mergers and acquisitions.

APEI (French professional association of independent experts) expert. Member of SFEV (French society of valuers). Member of the CEC (French accounting studies committee) and the accounting committee of the financial markets department of the CNCC (French national auditing body).

Hugues de Noray has in-depth expertise in both financial auditing and in valuation. He regularly works on sensitive corporate finance transactions.

With experience in the sectors governed by the French Intellectual Property Code — the audiovisual, publishing and press sectors — he has developed expertise in digital business activities.

Hugues de Noray provides support to his clients on a wide variety of transactions:

• statutory auditing of SMEs: auditing of procedures, internal control and financial information, particularly in the fields of new information and communication technologies and the cultural industries;
• support on company acquisitions: accounting and financial due diligence, warranty claims, post-acquisition management, etc.;
• valuations of companies, assets, trademarks and financial instruments: modelling and improving business plans, applying valuation techniques appropriate to the circumstances, valuations of stock warrants. etc.;
• acting as contributions and merger auditor and independent expert assessments.

Grégoire de Silvestre joined Advolis in 2004, at the time it was founded, after spending 12 years working in the Information Systems department of RSM Salustro Reydel.

With dual expertise in IT and management, he principally provides operational advice on projects that have an impact on the structure of accounting and financial functions and related information systems.

His main practice areas are:

• the optimisation of processes and structures linked to performance improvement strategies;
• the evaluation of the governance of information systems and the management of operational risks and risks to information systems.

Jean-Louis FLÈCHE joined Orfis just over 30 years ago, became a partner in 1990 and became Chairman in 2010.
With a very active role in the local economy, he is a member of the committees of: Lyon Place Financière et Tertiaire and Prévention et Retournement and is an active partner of MEDEF Lyon-Rhône, APIA, the Compagnie des Conseils et Experts Financiers, USEC (professional union), Middlenext, etc.
After acquiring considerable experience at an international firm, he joined Orfis and developed his dual expertise in auditing and accountancy/advisory.

His clients include companies of all sizes and groups (including PIEs) at key and complicated stages such as:

• growth;
• turnaround;
• transformation.

Véronique GENET joined Advolis in 2005, shortly after it was formed. She has both financial expertise and expertise in information systems as a result of the seven years she spent in auditing, two years at a publisher of consolidation software and six years as a director in the Consolidation Reporting department of RSM Salustro Reydel.

An IFRS expert, she specialises in the design, organisation and implementation of the process of preparing consolidated financial statements.

She advises a large number of groups on complex consolidation issues including:

• analysing the impact and implementing changes in standards (French standards and IFRS);
• drafting consolidated notes to financial statements/presenting financial information;
• the accounting treatment of specific transactions in consolidated financial statements: disposals, acquisitions (IFRS5, IFRS3, etc.); 
• adapting information systems/migrating consolidation and reporting tools.

He joined Orfis in 1994 and became a partner in 1999.

He heads the auditing teams and applies his expertise to statutory engagements for clients of various sizes (mid-cap companies and PIEs).

He also oversees engagements involving the provision of financial advice to private and public entities (outsourcing of public services, project management assistance).

Patrick Iweins was one of the founding partners of Advolis in 2004, following 13 years as a partner at RSM Salustro Reydel. He has an established practice in statutory and contractual auditing and appraising capital contributions. His experience and his expert knowledge of accounting standards allow him to work across a wide range of fields.

With experience of working on transactions in complex environments, he also acts as an expert or arbitrator in disputes.
President of the IMA France Association, he is also an alternate member of the CNS (national sanctions committee).

After working at DELOITTE and COGEPARC, Valérie MALNOY joined ORFIS in 1997 and became a partner in 2007.
When she first joined the firm, she worked exclusively in the auditing teams, but she now provides consultancy services and support to companies and associations. 
Valérie MALNOY provides her clients with a variety of services:

• statutory auditing and financial support for SMEs, associations and mutual societies;
• coordinating international projects with the production of reports for groups;
• financial verifications for NGOs;
• project management consultancy services. 

She also has specific expertise in the following sectors:

• the health and medico-social sector;
• the cultural sector;
• the NGO (non-governmental organisation) sector.

Benoit NOWACZYK began his career at Bellot Mullenbach & Associés where he provided financial valuation services and financial support on restructurings and complex modelling projects.

He joined Orfis in 2010 to develop the transaction consultancy practice and the SME and mid-cap financial performance optimisation practice.

His practice currently covers matters with complex operational and financial content, such as:

• support on company acquisitions and disposals (due diligence), in particular using techniques to improve companies’ financial performance;
• the financial valuation of securities, assets and management packages;
• the modelling and critical analysis of complex business plans;
• defining and implementing restructuring processes.

Jean-Thierry TAVERNIER joined ORFIS in 2002 after a number of years at RSM Rhône-Alpes where he provided auditing and accounting services.

He became a partner in 2011 and works in the “services for decision-makers” department where he supports company executives from creation to exit. 

Jean-Thierry has acquired considerable expertise in the creation and takeover of businesses and also specialises in the area of associations and Social and Economic Committees.

He is a member of Réseau Entreprendre, the Youth Division of the CPME (CME confederation) and the CJD (Young Managers Centre).

Nicolas TOUCHET began his career at RSM Paris (Corevise-Fidinter) where he provided auditing, statutory auditing and accounting services in a wide range of business areas.

He joined the auditing and accountancy practice of Orfis in 2007.

His currently provides services in a number of areas and environments (including for listed companies), such as:

• regulated engagements (statutory auditing – appraisals for contributions/mergers/demergers);
• contractual auditing;
• reviews of internal control systems;
• information system audits.

Antoni Vassileff manages Advolis’s Brussels office, which specifically focuses on monitoring trustee work. In Brussels, Advolis works with the European Commission to facilitate relationships between companies, their advisers and the Commission’s departments.

Before joining Advolis in 2009, Antoni Vassileff worked at the European Commission, in the teams at the Directorate-General responsible for merger controls. Before that, he was an analyst at WBI (Washington DC) where he advised businesses on investment opportunities in emerging countries.

Christophe VELUT began his career at Coopers&Lybrand, where he spent eight years auditing listed and international companies, carrying out due diligence and appraising mergers. 

He joined ORFIS in 1992, initially in the auditing department, before helping to create and develop the public and private sector consultancy practice.

His is heavily involved in the local economy and in local associations (he is a member of the board of directors of Lyon Place Financière et Tertiaire, a member of the committee of DFCG AuRa, Chairman of the association A3E, etc.) and in further education (EM Lyon, Master’s in Financial Engineering, Lyon 2 University). 

He is also actively involved in the CNCC's technical working groups (member of the valuation and contributions committees and the CNCC’s PIE division). 

He is a member of the EMEIA committee of the Allinial Global international association.

He has a very varied auditing and consultancy practice covering areas such as:

• the auditing of listed and international groups, as signatory and/or technical lead;
• the financial valuation of securities, intangible assets (trademarks, patents, etc.) and management packages;
• consolidation (French standards and IFRS);
• impairment tests and the purchase price allocations,
• the valuation of retirement benefits;
• acting as mergers auditor;
• advising managers on the financial aspects of structural projects (mergers, acquisitions, disposals, complex financings, etc.); 
• due diligence.