OUR TEAM

NewCo Corporate Finance’s team is composed of experienced professionals specialized in the financial services sector (banks, insurers, brokers, asset & wealth managers, payment firms, financial leasing) together with private equity funds. With nearly a dozen bankers, we have a perfect understanding of the FIG industry, its business challenges and market dynamics.

Audrey Seck

Audrey Seck

Audrey joined NewCo Corporate Finance as an analyst in June 2026. She previously completed a one-year M&A apprenticeship at Largillière Finance, where she worked on transactions across various sectors (financial services, food, tech and B2B services), as well as...

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Louis Gaffinel

Louis Gaffinel

Louis joined NewCo Corporate Finance as an Analyst in April 2026, after gaining experience in private equity and private debt. Louis holds an engineering degree from ESTP Paris and graduated from EDHEC Business School with a Master’s degree in Business Management and...

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Raphaëlle Nahmias

Raphaëlle Nahmias

Raphaëlle joined NewCo Corporate Finance in October 2025 as an analyst on the team. Before joining NewCo Corporate Finance, Raphaëlle completed M&A internships at Amala Partners and Clearwater, where she took part in transactions in a variety of sectors, including...

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Jean-Michel Pailles

Jean-Michel Pailles

A graduate of ESCP, Jean-Michel began his career at Arthur Andersen and later joined EY, where he led the Transaction Services practice (due diligence, strategy, valuation, and M&A) for the financial services sector in France and subsequently across Europe. In...

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Patrick Rivière

Patrick Rivière

Graduate of the Institute of Financial Science and Insurance (ISFA), Patrick Rivière, 64, began his career in 1983 at Cholet Dupont before joining Fimagest in 1985. Following the takeover of Fimagest by Générale de Banque in 1996, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of...

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Thibault Lecompte

Thibault Lecompte

Thibault has been working as an Analyst at NewCo Corporate Finance since June 2024, after completing a 6-month off-cycle internship there in 2023. Thibault notably worked on transactions in the insurance brokerage sector (including the simultaneous acquisition of...

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Paul Renou

Paul Renou

After completing an internship at NewCo Corporate Finance in 2023, Paul joined the team as an analyst in April 2024. During his internship and his first months as an analyst at NewCo Corporate Finance, Paul worked on several transactions in various sectors such as...

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Juliette Malard

Juliette Malard

Juliette joined NewCo Corporate Finance as an Associate in September 2024, after three and a half years in the Small Mid Cap team of Rothschild Co (Transaction R). She has worked in more than 15 MA and debt advisory processes (sell-side, buy-side, fundraising,...

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Jean-Louis Duverney-Guichard

Jean-Louis Duverney-Guichard

Jean-Louis is a FIG specialist (regulated businesses, brokerage, wealth and asset management, financial leasing and fintechs). He has worked for various institutions in London (HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods) and Paris (Oddo...

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Roman Chekli

Roman Chekli

Roman is a Managing Director within the NewCo Corporate Finance team. He has been involved in numerous transactions (sales, LBOs, fundraising, acquisitions) with several types of actors (entrepreneurs, private equity funds, industrialists) and on projects of various...

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