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Hipparchus

Strategic advisory

Financial architecture, capital structure and long-term scenario modeling for corporate groups, holding companies and executives. We turn analysis into actionable decisions with documentation discipline.

Hipparchus Advisory

The firm

Independence, clarity, and bespoke structuring. Hipparchus supports strategic decision-making for corporate executives, holding companies, and business groups, framing capital structure, financial analysis, and private debt arrangements.

Every mandate is built on a rigorous cash-flow diagnosis, stress-testing scenario modeling, and disciplined coordination of financial stakeholders. Operating strictly as a non-CIF corporate advisory firm (art. L. 321-1 & L. 541-1 CMF), we ensure total objectivity and discretion.

Close ties with market participants
Family offices • Private banks
Market proximity
Stay connected to the field
Entrepreneur presenting a project
Entrepreneurs • Mid-caps
Entrepreneur stories
Turn vision into execution
Meeting around diversified projects
Industry • Real assets
Project support
Back singular projects
Discussion with financial institutions
Banks • Private lenders
Institutional ties
Maintain institutional ties
European hubs perspective
Paris • Luxembourg • Geneva
European footprint
A European positioning
Meeting with investment funds
Private equity • Private debt
Fund dialogue
Engage with investment funds

Core principles

Rigour
Analysis, method, traceability

High standards in dossier qualification, scenario modelling and decision documentation. Recommendations rely on explicit assumptions, verified data and a reasoning framework that can be audited over time.

Proximity
Direct dialogue with decision-makers

Long-term relationships with executives and institutional partners. Understanding constraints, timelines and trade-offs to align solutions with real-world decision dynamics.

Fit
Objective honesty in advice

Clarify what is feasible, what is not, and what would be inconsistent. Validate fit at each step across cash-flow profiles, governance and accepted risk level.

The future isn’t forecast — it is built through structure.

Hipparchus

Cabinet stories

A few real situations that reflect our approach: start from a concrete project, surface its financial, wealth and human stakes, then structure a coherent response aligned with the client’s overall capital.

Mandate 1

Helping families finance complex wealth projects

Bridge loan on a listed château

An entrepreneurial family identifies the opportunity to acquire a listed château—both a residence and a symbolic asset for their activities.

Timing is tight: the acquisition must close before the sale of a major stake that will provide most of the liquidity.

Hipparchus structures a bridge loan backed by existing financial assets and future cash flows: valuation work, debt sustainability analysis, and exit scenarios (bank refinancing, asset sale, portfolio reallocation).

We align covenants, the guarantee stack, and the risk level acceptable to each decision-maker.

Beyond a simple “yes/no” on financing, we integrate the operation into the broader wealth roadmap: liquidity impact, coherence with the global allocation strategy, and governance around an emblematic asset.

Outcome: a secured, readable financing embedded in a long-term wealth plan.

Bridge loan on a listed château
Mandate 2

Advising family-owned companies on long-term strategy

Cash allocation and intergenerational flows

A mature family business generates significant excess cash.

Shareholders must choose between reinvesting in operations, distributing dividends, pursuing acquisitions, or building a separate financial portfolio.

Hipparchus maps the flows: operating margins, CAPEX needs, existing debt, recurring dividends, bank commitments.

We analyse balance sheet structure and key ratios while accounting for the human dimension: founder expectations, next-generation role, and risk appetite.

We then design a cash allocation strategy that clearly separates corporate needs, the holding company, and personal wealth.

We simulate scenarios (organic growth, external growth, status quo, partial sale) and their impact on the family’s total wealth, incorporating taxation and long-term governance.

The aim is not just to “invest excess cash” but to turn an informal flow into strategic capital over decades.

Cash allocation and intergenerational flows
Mandate 3

Acting as a trusted counterpart to structure long-term projects

Structuring an architecture-focused foundation

A business owner wishes to allocate significant capital to support architecture and craftsmanship preservation.

The challenge: establish durable governance, a disciplined financial endowment framework, and seamless integration with corporate structures.

Hipparchus acts as an independent coordinator alongside legal advisors and institutional stakeholders.

We model the endowment, establish multi-year liquidity frameworks, and create a transparent, auditable governance architecture.

Our role: providing financial substance and institutional durability to an enduring vision across generations.

Structuring an architecture-focused foundation
Our pillars

A four-discipline architecture

Hipparchus combines strategic advisory, financial analysis, private funding, and quantitative research. Guiding principles: analytical rigour, traceability, and controlled execution.

Explore our expertise

Strategic advisory & Capital structure

Structuring the overall architecture: capital structure optimization, sustainable debt capacity modeling, and executive balance-sheet decisions.

Capital structureDebt capacityAdvisory
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Financial analysis & HCA scoring

In-depth balance sheet audit, cash-flow stress testing, and proprietary Hipparchus Credit Assessment scoring to evaluate genuine financial resilience.

DiagnosisHCA ScoringStress tests
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Private debt & funding

Framing, structuring and negotiating debt solutions: syndicated bank facilities, corporate private debt, asset-backed lending, and real estate debt.

Private CreditABLTerm Sheet
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Research & The Financial Point

Quantitative research desk, credit spread observatory, and weekly publication to anticipate market dynamics and benchmark the cost of risk.

Quant researchSpreadsWeekly
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« What is well conceived is clearly expressed, and the words to say it come easily. »

— Nicolas Boileau — The Art of Poetry
Insights & figures

A structured trajectory, execution-driven

Dealflow volumes and corporate mandates reflect progressive ramp-up: each transaction undergoes rigorous modeling, traceable documentation, and ongoing monitoring.

The chart illustrates dealflow growth (cases) since the firm's founding, while key indicators summarize operational scale.

Hipparchus dealflow
Cases handled (dealflow)
2023 – 2025
5 • 20232023518 • 202420241854 • 2025202554

Dealflow aggregates corporate advisory, financial analysis & HCA ratings, private debt structuring, and quantitative research. Each mandate maintains absolute analytical neutrality.

Structured debt facilities
+€108M

Private debt notional structured with partner institutions.

Analyses & ratings delivered
+200

Balance sheet audits, HCA scorings, and stress tests.

Institutional partners
+30

Ecosystem: private lenders, banks, family offices, specialists.

Hipparchus Insights

Reading to decide

A curated selection of research notes, credit analyses, and corporate case studies to support capital structure, funding, and risk allocation decisions.

Each publication bridges mathematical rigor with executive decision-making for corporate leaders and institutional partners.
THE FINANCIAL POINT — RESEARCH LETTERLatest Issue · N° 01 (Mars 2026)

Spreads de crédit et liquidité souveraine : Naviguer dans les arbitrages du Private Debt

Perspectives T1 2026 — Analyse de haut de bilan & Allocation de capital

Dans un environnement de taux directeurs stabilisés mais asymétriques, l'écartement des spreads sur le segment Corporate Investment Grade redéfinit les frontières entre dette syndiquée et dette privée. Cette première livraison analyse la résistance des structures de cash-flows et propose une grille d'arbitrage bilanciel.

Focus areas :Private DebtStress-TestingLiquiditéSpreads
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