Founded in 2015, D'Ornano + Co. is an international professional services firm aimed at helping modern private investors understand investment opportunities through enhanced transaction services with a unique holistic method. Headquartered in Paris, the firm offers world-class legal and financial analysis into a comprehensive advisory approach, accompanying the biggest European and international investors in their growth and investment strategy over the medium-to-long-term.
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
Raphaëlle d'Ornano
Founder and Managing Partner
D'Ornano + Co.
Raphaëlle d’Ornano, the firm’s founder and managing partner, worked at some of the world’s top auditing and transaction services companies after attending university. While working at Deloitte, she decided to pursue a law degree—something that had always interested her. Balancing her workload with rigorous weekend and evening courses, she realized how siloed due diligence and legal transaction services were. “While conducting audits on big firms, we were analyzing financial and legal due diligence separately,” she says. “And I told myself, ‘Something is wrong. We are not getting the full picture.’” Also, she felt that these firms were too focused on execution, to the detriment of strategic advice.
After finishing her studies, d’Ornano founded D’Ornano + Co. The firm is France’s first to specialize in financial and legal due diligence under one roof, using one holistic method and also providing strategic advice for medium and long-term growth initiatives. Experiencing immense growth in France’s hotter-than-ever investment landscape, D’Ornano + Co. expanded into the US with the opening of its New York City office in 2020. With a multi-disciplined team of 35 collaborators and near-term plans to double that number and expand further in Europe, D’Ornano + Co. is uniquely positioned as a bridge-building service provider.
“We are bridge-builders between law and finance, PE and VC and technology and the traditional economy.”
—Raphaëlle d’Ornano, Founder and Managing Partner, D’Ornano + Co.
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The role of financial and legal services providers has shifted over time—becoming even more vital to an investor’s bottom line. D’Ornano says that these firms traditionally checked the numbers and ensured that risk associated with an investment was low. “The nature of our work is now more of an advisory and professional service provider role,” she says. “We are playing a more proactive role in understanding the entire investment and validating it.”
Empowering their clients to make confident, informed decisions depends on the D’Ornano + Co. team staying up to date on industry news and trends. “PitchBook’s research, newsletters and releases have been huge in the development of our company,” d’Ornano says. “I read PitchBook’s newsletters every day—even when I’m up late working until 1 a.m.” From what’s happening in fintech and the future of B2B payments to why Tiger Global is embracing seed-stage funding, PitchBook’s expert analysis of the private market landscape equips D’Ornano + Co. with the information they need to service their clientele. “It helps us anticipate questions about certain trends and data points that might come up,” she says.
“PitchBook’s news and research enables us to better understand industry developments we see playing out day-to-day in our work.”
—Raphaëlle d’Ornano, Founder and Managing Partner, D’Ornano + Co.
Diving deeper, D’Ornano + Co. uses PitchBook’s coverage of the capital markets to keep close tabs on specific industry verticals. When d’Ornano gets a new assignment, she logs into her account, types in the company name, and explores the list of associated verticals, emerging spaces and keywords that populate. From there, she can easily access related
PitchBook news stories and reports. “That categorization by vertical is key. It allows us to build our proprietary playbooks and our investment analysis frameworks according to specific spaces.”
“We follow PitchBook’s vertical coverage really closely, and we know all the insights are supported by this big team of analysts who do great work.”
—Raphaëlle d’Ornano, Founder and Managing Partner, D’Ornano + Co.
D'Ornano + Co. at a glance
6
Years in operation
35
Serviced companies
280
Serviced deals
130
Services investors
Primary industries
Technology and digital, financial services, customer goods and retail, healthcare
Getting better acquainted with private market investors around the world
Access to PitchBook’s coverage of key industry players has been crucial for D’Ornano + Co. By leveraging PitchBook’s granular insights on more than 362,000 global investors, the firm can easily identify and become better acquainted with investors around the world whose interests align with their own. Specifically, D’Ornano + Co.'s offerings include strategic advice, legal transaction, asset restructuring and tax support services for institutional and corporate investors in growth or distressed contexts.
“PitchBook has enabled me to understand the key players of the different investment spaces within the private markets.”
—Raphaëlle d’Ornano, Founder and Managing Partner, D’Ornano + Co.
PitchBook’s robust investor dataset has been especially useful as D’Ornano + Co. has expanded into new markets—including the US with the opening of their New York City office. “Whatever market you’re looking at, from New York to London, it gives you the big picture [of the landscape] in an extremely efficient way,” d’Ornano says.
That big picture context applied at the local or regional level has enabled the firm to scout new chances to connect investors with what they’re seeking. D’Ornano adds that when she knows a person is investing in a particular space and she sees something coming into that space, she can reach out directly to introduce herself, facilitate opportunities for others and build a case for her firm’s services. “In terms of business development, I am the only one doing that—so you can imagine how big this is for us,” she says.
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