FirePower Capital
Janine Van Niekerk is an experienced professional in mergers and acquisitions, currently serving as Associate Manager at FirePower Capital and Spearhead Corp Dev since May 2022. At FirePower Capital, Janine focuses on advising and investing in mid-market companies, facilitating critical transactions and growth capital. As part of Spearhead Corp Dev, Janine supports sophisticated consolidators and private equity firms, enhancing their corporate development efforts. Previously, from June 2017 to May 2022, Janine held the position of Senior Analyst at Benchmark International, specializing in mergers and acquisitions for businesses in the global corporate market. Janine's career in the M&A sector began as a Business Consultant in a Mergers & Acquisitions firm from May 2012 to January 2017.
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FirePower Capital
FirePower Capital advises and invests in Canada’s entrepreneurs, helping them complete mission-critical transactions, such as acquiring a competitor, selling to a strategic buyer, or financing their growth with our own or our partners’ capital. We started FirePower Capital with a single thought in mind: give lower mid-market companies access tothe same level of sophisticated transactional advice that is only available to larger companies; reason is, investment banks in Canada do not “scale down” from headline-grabbing deals.As a team we have created a next-generation investment bank specifically for lower mid-market companies. Since 2012, we have brought together a diverse and dynamic team of deal-makers, marketers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and developers to execute on the vision.We have challenged the ways investment banks traditionally do deals: for example, we have created a cross-functional team in which experts fulfill a specific component of each deal; we have written new software that has allowed us to advance multiple deals simultaneously without sacrificing attention to detail; we have built new, active networks that connect Canadian businesses with relevant buyers, investors, and lenders worldwide.We are determined to win in the lower mid-market, where no-one thinks it is feasible to grow a successful investment bank. Our people will continue to disrupt the ways deals get done in Canada with their results-driven attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, and confidence to say “we can do this better”.