The Firm's principals and counsel.
Deepesh Shivnani is a Managing Director of Ascentivelab Group and leads the Firm's mandate coverage and origination practice. He works directly with each client to define the engagement, direct the origination program, and hold alignment through diligence and close. He directs the Firm's coverage across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
The Firm's Advisory Board brings operating and investment judgment across its sectors of coverage. Across their careers, its members have executed more than $5 billion in transactions.
Kenneth Bock has closed more than $1.25 billion in transactions and architected a structured global investment platform now used as a primary funding source across the life insurance industry. He has served as an independent board member of Dialysis Corporation of America and was a key advisor on the $112 million tender offer from US Renal Care in 2010.
Dominic Spooner brings more than 30 years in capital markets, advising on capital raises, M&A, IPOs, RTOs, and divestitures across North America's leading firms, with deep sector expertise in energy and AgTech. He has facilitated more than $1 billion in capital, including backing outcomes at Canacol Energy and Athabasca Oil Sands.
Moe Ammar has executed raises of $10M to $50M across manufacturing, logistics, environmental services, and infrastructure, and has led FP&A functions, building forecasting models and client profitability reporting for a platform with revenue above $15M.
Joshua Naude closes PPP, G2G, and privately financed infrastructure transactions across energy, mining, water, transport, and data centers. His work spans full-lifecycle capital formation, aligning sponsors, lenders, export credit agencies, and development finance institutions across debt, equity, EPC, and offtake structures.
Ruben Schwagermann has executed more than $3.7 billion in transactions, including $3 billion for a BlackRock Canadian spin-off fund, EUR 575 million for Gresham Fund III and IV, $128 million for AIP Realty, and $50 million for Renegade Petroleum. He has also built and scaled multiple operating companies.
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