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.
Jean-Louis Duverney-Guichard
MANAGING PARTNER
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…
Roman Chekli
MANAGING DIRECTOR
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 sizes in..
Alexandre Gebelin
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Alexandre is a Managing Director within the NewCo Corporate Finance team. He has been involved in a variety of projects (LBOs, disposals, acquisitions, fundraising, etc.) with different types of actors (private equity funds, industrialists, etc.) in France and abroad. Before…
Manuel Le Guen
VICE PRESIDENT
Manuel is a Vice-President at NewCo Corporate Finance and joined the team in January 2019 after graduating. Since his integration, he has worked on insurance brokerage transactions (Diot-Siaci merger, sale of Ocealiz to Groupe Leader Insurance…
Thibauld Hamaide
VICE PRESIDENT
Thibauld has been working for NewCo Corporate Finance since September 2020 as an Vice President. He has been involved in wealth management deals (sale of Primonial Ingénierie & Développement to Crystal Group, sale of Opti Finance to Crystal Group…
Juliette Malard
ASSOCIATE
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)…
Eric Larsen
ASSOCIATE
Eric joined the NewCo Corporate Finance team as an Analyst in April 2022. Prior to joining NewCo Corporate Finance, Eric completed a 6-month internship with the team in 2020/2021. During his time as an intern at NewCo corporate Finance he worked on deals within the…
Paul Renou
ANALYST
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…
Thibault Lecompte
ANALYST
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.
During his internship, Thibault notably worked on projects in the insurance brokerage sector…
Raphaëlle Nahmias
ANALYST
Having joined NewCo Corporate Finance in October 2025, Raphaëlle is an Analyst within the team. Prior to joining NewCo Corporate Finance, Raphaëlle completed internships in mergers and acquisitions at Amala Partners and Clearwater, where she took part in transactions across a wide range of sectors…
Patrick Rivière
CHAIRMAN OF THE STRATEGIC COMMITTEE
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 CEO of Générale de…
Jean-Michel Pailles
SENIOR ADVISOR
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…
Morgane Roco
OFFICE MANAGER
Morgane joins the team in July 2022 as the Office Manager of Newco Corporate Finance, after 5 years of experience at EY and one and a half years in a wealth management firm. With an economic and social administration background, she is in charge of the office…