Elena Rostova
Senior Managing Director - Head of Equity Capital Markets
Equity Syndicate Management, Technology-Sector Valuations & Institutional Order Books
Senior Leadership & Hands-On Execution
Decades of institutional Wall Street and global capital markets experience driving tailored corporate finance solutions.
Every capital markets engagement, strategic advisory project, and complex transaction is led directly by senior partners with extensive international experience.
Founder profile
Clifford Howard Gutterman
Senior Managing Director of Investment and Market Strategy
Equity Capital Markets, Strategic M&A Advisory & Corporate Capital Structuring
Clifford Howard Gutterman is the Senior Managing Director of Investment and Market Strategy of Aqua Markets LLC. With more than two decades of senior executive leadership in tier-one global capital markets, he has directed multi-billion-dollar capital raises, complex cross-border restructurings, and strategic M&A engagements. Prior to establishing Aqua Markets LLC, Mr. Gutterman served in senior leadership capacities at major Wall Street investment institutions, leading debt capital markets divisions and strategic corporate advisory groups.
Executive leadership
Senior Advisors Across Every Mandate
The leadership team brings together deep sector expertise, institutional rigor, and commitment to unconflicted advisory.
Marcus Vance
Managing Director - Debt Capital Markets & Structured Finance
Leveraged Finance, Private Credit, Unitranche & Asset-Backed Structuring
Catherine Blake
Managing Director - Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory
Buy-Side and Sell-Side M&A, Cross-Border Negotiations & Integration Planning
David K. Sterling
Head of Capital Restructuring & Turnaround Advisory
Balance Sheet Recapitalization, Out-of-Court Workouts & Liquidity Optimization
Julian Thorne
Managing Director - Strategic Advisory & Pre-IPO Readiness
Corporate Governance, Crossover Capital Matching & ESG Integration
Robert Hale
Chief Compliance Officer & General Counsel
International Securities Regulation, AML/KYC Frameworks & Transaction Compliance
Dr. Henrik Lindqvist
Head of Quantitative Research & Risk Analytics
Financial Modeling, Macroeconomic Stress-Testing & Valuation Analytics
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