Baptiste DEHAY: Market culture aligned with corporate execution
Holding advanced credentials in financial markets and trading (RNCP Level 7 / No. 39400), Baptiste Dehay combines a quantitative, evidentiary mindset with hands-on transactional rigor: measuring risk, engineering liabilities, and executing with discipline.
Baptiste Dehay · Founder & Consultant · Cabinet Hipparchus
Corporate and wealth finance tolerates no guesswork. A sound decision is measured by the rigor of its assumptions, the strength of its collaterals, and the precision of its documentation.
Academic Background & Certification
Specialized postgraduate studies in market finance and complex derivatives, certified by RNCP Level 7 ('Expert in financial markets and instruments' — France Compétences) and AMF regulatory foundation.
Research & Evidentiary Discipline
Author of applied financial research papers indexed on ResearchGate, emphasizing auditable sensitivity analysis and models resilient to institutional scrutiny.
Strategic framing and private debt negotiations · Paris
Early immersion within wealth management and corporate finance
Active in the wealth advisory ecosystem since the age of 20, Baptiste Dehay developed deep insight into the governance and capital dynamics of family-owned groups and entrepreneurial holdings.
Challenged by the limitations of standard retail bank loans, he founded Hipparchus to provide business leaders with independent debt engineering capable of unlocking institutional direct lending without diluting equity.
« Preserving governance independence while unlocking the financial firepower required for scale. »
Four guiding operational principles
Une exécution rythmée par des critères stricts de qualification et de structuration financière.
Quantitative Measurement
Normalizing historical cash flows, stress-testing coverage ratios (DSCR, ICR), and building dynamic multi-year cash flow forecasts.
Sustainable Architecture
Calibrating equilibrium leverage levels and matching debt maturity schedules with the economic lifespan of underlying assets.
Documentary Rigor
Assembling institutional credit datarooms, strict version tracking, and audit-ready AML/CFT compliance verification.
Selective Placement
Presenting credit memos directly to qualified institutional debt funds and credit committees under bilateral NDAs.
Academic methodology and published works
Premier financial advisory thrives on ongoing research. The publications of Baptiste Dehay can be accessed publicly on his ResearchGate academic profile.
Author Profile on ResearchGate
Papers, research notes, and applied mathematical modeling summaries focused on credit risk and financial markets.