Robert Napoli
Robert Napoli, CA LLB finances management buy outs (MBOs), mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and expansion for growing companies in all industries. Robert covers British Columbia (BC) and Alberta.
Robert is Vice President and co-founder of First West Capital, Western Canada's subordinated debt (sub-debt) and mezzanine finance provider for small and medium sized companies. He has particular expertise in IT/communications, manufacturing and services industries, having completed over 50 sub-debt transactions so far.
Robert is President of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Vancouver Chapter, Vancouver's community for corporate finance and M&A professionals. He is also a director and executive member of the ACG Global Board.
Robert has over 15 years experience in corporate finance, accounting and financing. Prior to co-founding First West Capital, Robert was an Investment Manager at another subordinated debt fund. Before that, Robert was Manager, Corporate Finance with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
As a Chartered Accountant in Canada and Australia, Robert contributes to his profession as an adviser to the Accounting Standards Board of Canada (AcSB), on Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE).
He holds Honours Degrees in Commerce and Law from Monash University, Australia. In addition, he holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Robert is a BIV Top 40 under 40 award recipient and writes a monthly op-ed column on corporate finance matters in the Business in Vancouver newspaper.
Contact Robert
Phone: 604-501-4294
E-mail: rnapoli@firstwestcapital.ca
Linked in: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/robertnapoli
Featured Posts
When an opportunity arose to acquire Harmony Concepts, a manufacturing company specializing in blending powders for nutritional and dietary supplements and health drinks, Coquitlam-based The Rhema Group leapt at the prospect. Having already looked into purchasing a facility in the United States, the acquisition gives Rhema a great opportunity to further expand its business in the US and increase capacity.
The company first began working with Utah-based Harmony Concepts last year and...
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I’m often asked the tough question: “What do you think this business is worth?”
I’m going out on a limb here, because while I am a CA and spent four years in the valuations practice of PwC, I am not a qualified chartered business valuator. However, having financed many mergers, acquisitions and buyouts, I have a perspective to offer here.
I will limit my comments to what I know most about: mature, small and medium-sized businesses that have...
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Last year, we demolished our old Vancouver tear down house. In one of the walls, I noticed the builders had used newspaper as insulation, which explains why we were so cold all the time. The newspaper was an old issue of the Vancouver Sun from 1911. As I examined the news of the day, I turned to the real estate section and saw that land parcels and homes were selling for about $400 to $600. Inflation— I wish I had bought then. But perhaps even more interesting was that...
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With our minds on the holiday season, it’s easy to forget that the reinstatement of PST and GST is just over three months away. With that being said, I decided to interview Grant Gilmour, founding partner of Gilmour Knotts Chartered Accountants, to find out what the implications are for businesses and consumers.
Robert Napoli (RN): Grant, who will benefit from the switch back to a dual system of levying a provincial sales tax and a separate federal...
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If you’ve ever dreamed of buying out the owner of your company, running it the way you want and accumulating the profits from your efforts, you might be interested to know that many businesses in B.C. will change hands this way over the next five years, as we see the largest cohort of baby boomers reach the age of 65.
For owners of companies with sales of less than about $20 million, the notion of selling to the second in command is a viable option, so understanding...
When Sealweld Corporation recently secured expanded contracts with two major clients, Shell Canada Energy and the Saudi Aramco, Andrea Arient, executive vice president of the Calgary-based company, knew they would need additional working capital in order to meet their clients’ growing needs and demands. Sealweld is a market leader within the valve maintenance industry and sells valve sealants, grease products, fittings and pumps to the oil and gas pipeline industry. Since its...
