Sylvie Coudène · SG07 Advisory

Independent adviser to investors and leaders in professional services and other people-dependent businesses, from acquisition to value creation.

Cantheorganisationdeliverthegrowthyou’repaying for?

Sylvie Coudène, Founder of SG07 Advisory

Experience & Track Record

Judgement shaped by experience.

25 years in M&A and transformation, leading European M&A talent integration at Accenture, then serving as Partner and Group Head of M&A People at Azets, a professional services consolidator.

That experience shapes one conviction: strategy and technology can create the opportunity. Leadership and organisation determine whether it can be delivered.

Experience tells you what to look for. Judgement tells you what matters.

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Years across M&A, growth and transformation

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Transactions evaluated annually

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Annual deal value supported

CoverageUK & IrelandNordicsBeneluxFranceGermanySpainItaly

The organisation behind the numbers

Traditional diligence tells you what you're buying. But what tells you whether the organisation can deliver?

I help investors identify where leadership, key people and the way a business operates could put the investment thesis at risk, while there's still time to act.

Financial

Financial performance and quality of earnings.

Commercial & Operational

The market, customers, growth potential and operational performance.

Legal & HR

Legal, regulatory and employment risks.

A strong investment case does not create value on its own.
The organisation still has to deliver it.

Sylvie Coudène · Founder, SG07 Advisory

Services

From investment decision to value creation.

01Before commitment

Early Investment Challenge

01Before commitment

Early Investment Challenge

Challenge the organisational assumptions behind the investment case.

An early, focused challenge to identify where leadership, key-person dependencies or organisational constraints could put the investment at risk, before committing to full due diligence.

02During evaluation

Leadership & Organisation Due Diligence

02During evaluation

Leadership & Organisation Due Diligence

Can the people and organisation deliver the growth underpinning the investment?

An independent evaluation of leadership, commitment, key-person dependencies, governance and organisational capability. Identifying risks to the investment thesis and decisions needed before and after completion.

03Beyond the decision

Integration, Future Organisation & Value Creation

03Beyond the decision

Integration, Future Organisation & Value Creation

Turning investment ambition into organisational reality.

From preparing integration and aligning leadership to diagnosing under-performance and building acquisition capability. Helping investors and management teams make the organisational decisions that protect and create value.

In their words

Trusted by investors, leaders and founders across the deal lifecycle.

Sylvie was a key member of Accenture's European M&A engine, bringing the rigour of management consulting to one of the world's largest acquisition programmes. She helped pioneer an approach that treated culture not as an HR topic, but as a commercial advantage. By understanding what made businesses successful before integration began, she uncovered insights that financial due diligence alone could not reveal. Those insights helped investment teams make better investment decisions and laid the foundations for integration programmes that protected the leadership, culture and organisational capabilities underpinning long-term value creation.

Daniel Schwartzmann

Former EMEA Corporate Development & M&A Lead · Accenture

Speaking & Executive Sessions

What makes deals and transformations succeed? The people behind the numbers.

Practical insight for investors, deal teams and leaders, drawn from 25 years across Europe - from the investment committee to integration.

—The organisation behind the numbers
—When success becomes a barrier to change
—Integration: what to preserve and what to change
—AI changes the work. Who changes the organisation?

Contact

Let's talk.

Tell me a little about your situation and I'll come back to you personally.

sylvie.coudene@sg07advisory.com LinkedIn — Sylvie Coudène

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