Francois Lorrain Email & Phone Number

France

Investment in SMEs - LBO - Private EquityInvestissement dans des PME industrielles et services

Garat, Fr

part of Confluence-Developpement Group (acquired through LBO financing)Strategic positioning - Enhanced Business ModelLaunched an in-house digital start up (3D modeling & digital transformation for corrugated board manufacturers)

Strategic positioning - Business Model - Financial StrategySeed & Series A Fund Raising

Finance and operational advisory-M&ATransformIA accompagne des PME : structuration opérationnelle, digitalisation, préparation à la transmission et financement reprise. Financement en fonds propres, y compris majoritaire (cibles 1-5 M€ de chiffre d'affaires).

Verberie, -, Fr

Paris, Ile De France, Fr

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Angouleme, France, Fr

M&A : successful signature of a JV between Nidec Leroy-Somer and PSA Group to develop electric motors (transition to mild hybrid, plugin Hybrid and Electric Vehicles).Business CFO Motors&DrivesBusiness CFO Electric Power GenerationVP administration (IT, legal & compliance, accounting, cash management)Culture change : integration in Nidec management way (Kaizen, short term operational improvements, focus on growth...)Carve out (IT and deferred closing entities)Cash management : focus on TWC/CCC improvements

Angouleme, France, Fr

Worldwide specialist in industrial alternators and electric motors & drives systems.An Emerson companySales $1.5bn, 8500p, 2 business unitsIn charge of Group IT, Legal&Compliance, Accounting, Tax, Consolidation, ControllingReduced closing time from 1 month to 6 days to comply with Group requirement to stop the one month lag between Leroy-Somer Balance Sheet date and Emerson Balance Sheet date.Divestiture from Emerson Group to Japanese Nidec in 2016 (audits, dataroom, carve out preparation, Vendor Due Diligence, Management Presentations, Q&A ...)

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Valeo Access Mechanisms Product Group4500p, Sales 580 ME, 12 production sitesSpin off from Valeo and sale to U-Shin executed in May 20131st phase (1 year): Conducted Dataroom preparation, management presentations, Q&A sessions and contract negotiation with bank, group M&A and lawyers.2nd phase (1 year) : announcement, opinion from employee representatives, IT / legal and operational carve out.Post-closing audit preparation & integrationAt the same time : managed all operational finance matters of the Product Group, including : several restructuring / turn around plans in various countries (mainly Brasil, Italy, France and Slovakia). co-management of a 50-50 JointVenture in India

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

4 production sitesSet up accounting/treasury and IS/IT shared services => enabled service increase with 25% less people. Streamlined processes and leveraged best practices across the country.Shared Service was operational after 6 months (including analysis phase and workshops with key people in charge of accounting & IT processes)Tax optimisation bringing 2M€ yearly tax savings.

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Responsible for Strategic planning, Cost control, Accounting, Internal control, Cash management and IT of an autonomous business unit. Partner to sales and project teams for business acquisition and follow up.Co-managed break-even point decrease with general manager to adapt to a 20% sales decrease, down to 200 ME sales, 600p.

Essen, De

France 8 plants+3 abroadSpecial projects: Mergers&Acquisitions, RestructuringSet up costing and CAPEX follow up in SAP

Project acquisitions/resourcing from customers and competitors

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Île-De-France, Fr

Technical optimisation / cost savings

Masters, Finance

Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Education record