Squareness

Squareness

Squareness was established in July 2014 by Frédéric Meunier, a former Primexis partner who built that firm's Transaction Services practice. He brought along the core TS managers to create an independent structure, deliberately avoiding a single-discipline model. The firm operates from its Paris headquarters on Avenue de Wagram and a secondary office in Lyon. The firm's delivery model splits into two complementary streams. Financial Advisory covers pre-deal and post-deal support — transaction services, financial due diligence, valuation, and restructuring — while Business Solutions provides outsourced financial management for corporate clients, essentially functioning as an embedded finance function. This dual-line architecture allows Squareness to advise on a transaction and then step into an interim operational role during the integration or transformation phase. The firm claims multi-sectoral experience serving both corporate and institutional clients. A named team of fifteen — including six partners and directors — leads a broader group of about fifty professionals, according to the firm's website. The partnership includes valuation specialist Jérôme Fortin and transaction services lead Antoine Sudérie. In 2023, the firm promoted Maxime Thonnat to Directeur TAS, signaling continued investment in its deal-advisory capabilities. Squareness holds two "Excellent" rankings from French legal and advisory guide Les Décideurs, though the specific categories were not confirmed by the publication. The firm's structural independence is its differentiator. Squareness was built as a spinout, not a subsidiary, with ownership held by its operating partners. Its model of pairing high-stakes M&A advisory with ongoing operational outsourcing makes it a chameleon in a client's capital structure — functioning as both a deal-maker and a back-office utility, a combination that locks in relationships across the full corporate lifecycle.