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Mike Ganon, Founder & Managing Director, NextLevelCorporate. MBA (UWA), F.Fin, G.Dip (Applied Finance & Investment), B.Bus (Fin/Acc).
Background.
Mike Ganon is a senior banker who by the age of 36 had advised on the Alinta Gas and Bankwest IPOs, two of Western Australia’s largest privatisation IPOs, as well as the US$700m project financing of Burrup Fertilisers ammonia plant, including identifying and negotiating the involvement of its global ammonia off-taker.
He became a solopreneur before the term was fashionable, and remains one to this day.
In his role as Managing Director and senior advisor, Mike designs and delivers all NextLevelCorporate solutions and over the past three decades has built a multi-billion dollar corporate finance advisory track record in originating, structuring, arranging, advising on and supporting:
- Corporate restructures
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private treaty sales
- Public company takeover, scheme and defence assignments
- Equity fundraising and underwriting (for IPOs/SPOs), including 3 of the largest IPOs ever undertaken in Western Australia
- Structured debt/project financing assignments
These assignments have been undertaken in Australia, Asia, Europe, India and the United Kingdom and represent a ‘share of transaction’ value in the multiple billions.
Through Next Level Corporate Advisory, Mike advises and supports start-ups, scale-ups, family and privately owned businesses, joint ventures, registered native title body corporate/indigenous corporations, companies quoted on ASX and other international exchanges, family offices and professional investors.
As an independent financier, he has backed innovative companies in low carbon economy tech (biofuels and wave power), big data management and virtual reality collaboration software and has helped to grow those companies. He is also a limited partner in a Nationally focussed ESVCLP.
Mike has lectured in the Advanced Corporate Finance Stream at FINSIA (formerly the Securities Institute of Australia) and in 2007 as part of a State Government delegation to Bio's 2007 Pacific Rim conference, delivered a paper on Bioenergy Investment to a blend of Academia and Fortune 500 Companies.
He is a recipient of the Bronze, Silver and Gold Duke of Edinburgh's International Awards, having received his Gold Award from HRH Philip Duke of Edinburgh. Mike also served as a WA Divisional Committee member for The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award, from 2015 to 2017.
