FirePower Capital
Somant Maraj has a diverse work experience in the field of M&A Advisory and business development. Somant worked at FirePower Capital from 2014 to present, starting as a Research Analyst and progressing through various roles including Analyst, Senior Analyst, Associate, and most recently as Vice President and Director of M&A Advisory. In 2020, Somant also took on the position of Director, Americas at Spearhead Corp Dev. Prior to that, they worked as a Business Development Associate at BMO Nesbitt Burns in 2013.
Somant Maraj completed their Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at Ryerson University, which they attended until 2012. Subsequently, in 2021, they embarked on pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. This program is expected to conclude in 2022.
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”.