With 34 years of expertise in strategic corporate finance and corporate development, and a global network of conflict-free buyers, sellers, investors, and lenders, I help businesses and investors create, grow, and realise their true value, with confidence. These services are provided through my boutique corporate development advisory firm, NextLevelCorporate Advisory, which I solo-founded in 2001 after a decade with Macquarie Bank's Investment Banking Group and as an equity underwriter and corporate advisor with Porter Western Capital Markets.Notable deals include advising on two of Western Australia’s largest privatisation IPOs (Bankwest and Alinta Gas) and the US$700m project financing of Burrup Fertilisers, including identifying its global ammonia off-taker (Norsk Hydro, now Yara) as well as the IPOs of Bunnings Warehouse Property Trust, Colly Cotton, Bristile, Tat Hong, Protel and many other primary and secondary fundraisings, financings and takeovers.NextLevelCorporate is focussed on independent corporate advice, corporate development, M&A/capital market transactions and startup solutions to help our corporate clients to confidently create, grow and realise their true value-using a proprietary corporate development lens. Our track record spans 3 decades, 6 continents and several billion dollars, covering takeovers, schemes, project financings, ECM and special sit investments across Australia, Asia, Europe, India, the UK, and the Americas.Since 2004, I've personally backed innovative companies in the low carbon economy, cloud/big data, and VR, helping them commercialise and corporatise, with a focus on strategy, capital and corpdev.I have lectured in Advanced Corporate Finance at the Securities Institute of Australia (now FINSIA) and presented on Bio-energy Investment at Bio’s 2007 Pacific Rim conference. Academically, I hold an MBA (International Business), a Bachelor of Business in Finance/Accounting, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia where I have been a member for 35 years and was elevated to Fellow. I am an international Member of the UK based Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (MCSI).You can contact me on:📱 +61 0418 928 157✉ mike@nlcorporate.com.au💻 www.nextlevelcorporate.com.au