Amine Lahlou

Senior team leader, managed from 1 to 4 consultants
Led financial due diligence assignments on buy and sell side for Corporate clients and Private Equity funds
Built up firm value assessment skills: Analyzed historical financial performance, challenged and prepared business plans, reviewed cash flows and debts, normalized operating result and debt, assessed strategies
Realised and took part in different transactions in various industries: Utilities (purchase of Orascom Construction Industries by Lafarge for €8.8bn), Hard discount (strengthened a leading company’s position in Chinese distribution market, revising its marketing mix and improving its margin - Annual turnover FY07: €8.6bn), Electricity (supported EDF in its attempt to acquire from GDF, its 25% SPE Belgium shares for €0.6bn)
Conducted international assignments in the UK, Algeria, Switzerland and China

Senior auditor, managed audit and IT teams from 1 to 10 people
Audited financial statements regarding US GAAP and IFRS of Alstom Transport (Annual turnover FY08: €5.5bn), Suez Energy Services (FY07: €11.3bn), Technip (FY07: €7.9bn), Globecast France (FY06: €0.2bn), and others
In charge of Sarbanes Oxley (internal audit) compliance missions
Challenged project managers on long term contracts regarding margin, savings and risks
Conducted assignments in the UK, Italy, Algeria, Morocco and Switzerland

Project manager in training (6 Months)
Screened the deal flow and investigated strategic investment fields as energy, environment and health
Analysed the opportunity of a new investment fund in eco-energies and eco-industries sectors leading to the creation of Demeter Partners (Capital: €230m)
Produced the quarterly report of the national funds of funds
Analyzed major successes financed by venture capital in France (Soitec, Kelkoo, CDiscount…)
Analysed the investment strategy of a hundred American private equity firms: CalPERS, Blackstone, and KKR