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Statutory audit as required by the French legislation applicable to annual financial statements, mergers and asset contributions

In its role as statutory auditor, Donnadieu & Associés:

• Expresses an audit opinion as to the “true and fair view” expressed by companies’ or groups’ individual entity and consolidated financial statements.

• Assesses the valuation of the contributions made to a company at the time of its formation, or for the purposes of a share capital increase, as well as the implications of any other special circumstances identified.

• Acts in the context of merger transactions to verify the respect of the interests of all the shareholders involved in a deal, the final objective being to assess the fairness of the parities defined for exchange of the shares of the participating entities.

audit of accounting procedures and internal control

Donnadieu & Associés can satisfy your requirements in terms of optimising accounting flows and internal control procedures and thereby safeguarding information and assets and containing risk exposures.

due diligence and strategic review

Donnadieu & Associés can provide you with the expertise required to counter the risks involved in acquiring another business:

• We verify that the accounting, legal and financial parameters put forward as the basis for justifying the value of the target entity coincide with reality.

• We can also engage in strategic review designed to help the acquirer identify and quantify the potential synergies and obtain a complete picture of a transaction’s pitfalls and potentialities.