Richard Hooper, a former Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets, brings nearly two decades of leadership in M&A, equity, and debt advisory for technology companies. His career spans senior roles at RBC, Barclays Capital, and Lehman Brothers, where he advised enterprise software, cloud, and digital infrastructure leaders through complex transactions and strategic transformations. Richard brings a powerful combination of product depth knowledge, market insight, and global execution expertise.

Richard holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

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She brings over 20 years of experience in tech M&A, private placements, and IPOs, most recently as part of Union Square Advisors. Her background also includes roles at Code Advisors (Raine Group), Goldman Sachs, and Ernst & Young, with a focus on software, e-commerce enablement, and consumer internet.

Emily holds a BA in Business Economics and Accounting from UC Santa Barbara, where she was a member of the Varsity Women’s Soccer Team, as well as an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. She is a licensed CPA in the State of California.

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A seasoned corporate finance professional, Xavier Souvras brings over 10 years of experience to Clipperton, gained from previous roles at DC Advisory and Amala Partners. Throughout his career, Xavier advised mid-market clients across a wide range of sectors, including technology, business services, leisure & hospitality, and industrials, on an extensive variety of capital transactions.

Xavier’s expertise spans the full spectrum of strategic and capital advisory services, including M&A (sell- and buy-side), private placements, and other complex deal structures.

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A seasoned corporate finance expert, Laurence de Rosamel brings over 18 years of experience in debt advisory, financial restructuring, and capital markets to Clipperton, gained at DC Advisory, Oddo BHF, and Clearwater International, where she was heading the Paris team and led business development for Europe. Laurence has advised mid-market clients across various sectors, including technology, healthcare, consumer goods, industrials, and services, on a broad range of financing transactions.

Laurence holds a Master’s in Financial Techniques from ESSEC Business School and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and Finance from Mays Business School in Texas, USA.

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Vanessa Sorel graduated from ESCP Europe.

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At Clipperton, Nikolas has been involved in several landmark M&A deals such as gridscale (sale to OVHcloud), Smartlook (sale to Cisco), Dan.com (sale to GoDaddy), Eijsink (sale to Metro), 8fit (sale to Withings), or Packlink (sale to Thoma Bravo’s portfolio company Auctane).

Before joining Clipperton, Nikolas served at Morgan Stanley, Arma Partners, and GP Bullhound. Throughout his career to date, his experience has included marketing, structuring, and executing a broad set of transactions, including M&A sell/buy-side advisory, debt and equity recapitalizations (including private placements and public offerings), and other strategic M&A and capital advisory services.

Nikolas graduated from Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL) and holds a Doctorate of Economics (Magna Cum Laude).

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Martin advised technology category leaders on their financial operations such as Aramisauto (sold to Stellantis), Ekimetrics (€25 million fundraising), Withings ($60 million fundraising), Foederis (sold to Septeo Group), or Didomi ($40 million Series B). He also assisted several high-profile investment funds including Ardian (€330m take-private of Artefact), Mérieux Private Equity (investment in DentalMonitoring), and MBO+ (investment in Praxedo).

Before joining Clipperton, Martin worked at CM-CIC Corporate Finance where he was involved in several mid-cap M&A operations in the technology sector. Prior to that, he worked as a Strategy Consultant with AC Nielsen.

Martin is an ESSEC Business School alumnus and also studied at Schulich School of Business in Toronto, Canada.

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At Clipperton, Olivier has been involved in several landmark M&A deals such as Advens (sale of a minority stake to CAPZA), Private Sports Shop (merger with SportPursuit), In the Memory (sale to SES-imagotag), or Matooma (sale to Wireless Logic). He also advised several category leaders on their acceleration rounds, such as vLex, Inova, Brevo (formerly named Sendinblue), Lengow, and Vestiaire Collective.

Before joining Clipperton, Olivier worked at Alven Capital where he participated in Series A/B rounds for tech companies. He then joined Carrefour working on pricing & development of new distribution models for the online non-food department.

Olivier is an HEC Paris alumnus and holds a Master’s in Digital Business Strategy from Telecom Paris (ENST).

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Antoine has played a role in significant M&A deals and Private Equity financings for leading tech companies across Europe. His key transactions include Braincube’s $90M round with Scottish Equity Partners, DentalMonitoring’s $150m growth financing with Merieux Equity and Vitruvian, Inova’s $70m investment by Carlyle, the sale of Fruitz to Bumble [NASDAQ: BMBL], the fundraising of $60m of Withings with Gilde Healthcare and Eurazeo, or Brevo’s $160m round by Bridgepoint, Bpifrance and Blackrock.

Before joining Clipperton, Antoine began his career at Mars & Co., working on projects for Fortune 500 clients in the Consumer Electronics industry. He then advanced his career at Apple EMEA Headquarters in London.

Antoine is a HEC alumnus and holds a Master’s in Digital Business Strategy from Telecom Paris (ENST) and HEC Paris.

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Over the years Thomas advised numerous technology leaders on the sell-side in M&A transactions and Private Equity financings, including notably Wikiloc (investment from Miura Partners), Gymlib (sold to EGYM), Click&Boat (investment from Permira and Boats Group), Musement (sold to TUI Group), Aramisauto (sold to Stellantis) or Odoo (Series B and C rounds). He also assisted a number of high profile Private Equity funds on the buy-side including recently Astorg ($500m investment in EcoVadis) and Capza (investment in Travelsoft).

Before joining Clipperton, Thomas spent over four years with Jefferies as part of the Technology Investment Banking team based in London.

Thomas graduated from EDHEC business school and holds an MSC in finance.

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Notable deals include: Braincube raising €83m with Scottish Equity Partners and Bpifrance to consolidate its international leadership in industrial AI; Capital Croissance selling its majority stake in Equativ to Bridgepoint Development Capital; Gandi, the leading French web and email hosting service, joining forces with Pan-European champion Total Webhosting Solutions; Groupe BPCE and combine Swile and Bimpli; Ecovadis receiving a $500m investment from Astorg, General Atlantic (BeyondNetZero) and GIC and becoming a unicorn; Ardian Expansion successfully acquiring Artefact SA, a global leader in data science and data transformation solutions.

Nicolas is an HEC alumnus and post-graduated in Finance and Economy at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) / Paris School of Economics, where he focused on R&D issues.

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He successfully closed more than 100 deals, advising clients such as Vade Secure, the leading email security software company on its trade sale to Hornet Security; Welcome to the Jungle, France’s major SaaS player in the employer branding and recruitment space, on €50m Series C, as well as its acquisition of Otta; HarfangLab, a French Cybersecurity software company, on its €25m VC financing led by Crédit Mutuel Innovation, with the participation of MassMutual Ventures and Elaia; vLex, the award-winning online subscription platform offering easy access to the largest collection of legal information in a single service, welcoming Oakley Capital to its capital; Ekimetrics, the datascience for business company on its Growth Equity transaction led by Tikehau.

He graduated from École Polytechnique (X 1993) and ENSAE, and holds a Master of Science in Finance & Economics from the London School of Economics.

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The most recent landmark transactions Marc has advised were: Welcome to the Jungle, France’s major SaaS player in the employer branding and recruitment space, on its Series A to Series C, as well as its acquisition of Otta; Grasp, a media governance & data SaaS platform for the advertising industry, on its sale to Bridgepoint’s portfolio company MiQ; Smartlook’s sale to Cisco; Reporting 21, a leading sustainability-focused SaaS platform, acquired by Thoma Bravo’s portfolio company Cority; the acquisition of Packlink, a leading European multi-carrier  SMB shipping company, by Thoma Bravo’s portfolio company Auctane.

Marc graduated from EBS and holds an MSc in Corporate Finance.

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