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People

Sovereign & Critical Frontier Group is not a traditional advisory firm. We do not operate with pre-packaged teams or generalist coverage. Each mandate is approached with the precise combination of financial, sectoral and institutional capabilities it requires – assembled by relevance, not by default.

The firm operates through a core of senior financial and policy expertise, complemented by a trusted network of specialists activated on a mandate-specific basis. Clients work directly with the Managing Partner – on every mandate, from first conversation to closing.

Faÿçal Hafied

Managing Partner

A word from our Managing Partner

"We built Sovereign & Critical Frontier Group because no existing platform fully matched the complexity of the transactions we wanted to support – mandates at the frontier of sovereign industries, often capital-intensive, politically sensitive, and structurally underserved by both large banks and generalist boutiques. Our role is to be the missing bridge – between financial execution and industrial consequence, between capital and the sectors that determine sovereignty."

Biography

Faÿçal Hafied has spent his career at the intersection of public finance, industrial policy and investment banking. He previously served as at the French Treasury. He subsequently worked as an investment banker at Klymb, advising technology and industrial companies on capital transactions. He holds a Master's degree in Regulatory Law from Sciences Po Paris and a Master's in Management from ESCP Europe Business School. He is the author of the reference financial handbook “Capital-Risque et financement des start-ups” (DeBoeck, 2019) and has published extensively on industrial strategy, defence innovation and financial sovereignty. His work has been featured in Les Echos, El País, Cinco Días, Sifted and Euromoney.

Education

— Master in Regulatory Law — Sciences Po Paris
— Master in Management — ESCP Europe Business School

Previous experience

— Deputy Head, Industrial Policy & Knowledge Economy — French Treasury
— Investment Banker with a strong focus on debt advisory.

Institutional capabilities

Investor Access

Direct access to institutional investors and capital allocators active in critical industries – growth equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, public development banks and specialist defence and infrastructure investors. We connect clients to the right counterparties for their specific mandate, not generic investor lists.

Proprietary Research

An in-house research function that monitors critical technologies, regulatory shifts and capital flows in sovereign industries. Our publications – white papers, sector analyses and opinion notes – position us as a reference voice in the markets we serve.

Strategic Positioning

For mandates where the transaction narrative matters as much as the financial structure – particularly in sovereign sectors where institutional credibility is earned, not assumed – we help clients build the clarity and alignment their projects need to unlock capital and conviction.

our philisophy

Capital is not neutral.
 It is one of the last great tools of strategic action.

In a world where financial infrastructure is increasingly disconnected from industrial realities, we reconnect capital to consequence – transaction by transaction, mandate by mandate.

We do not follow capital flows. We structure them – for the companies, investors and governments building what cannot be lost.