Most advisory firms only advise. Calcorp's judgement was tested the hard way: twice, our founder left the advisory chair to run companies himself, and brought back what only the operating seat teaches.
Calcorp Capital is an independent corporate advisory firm based in Adelaide, serving owners and boards across mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, project finance and strategy.
What sets the firm apart is older than the firm itself. Across four decades, its founder has advised on some of South Australia's most significant transactions — and twice left the advisory chair to operate businesses himself, listing a company on London's AIM and building a medical-device company to scale.
The work is grounded in a simple standard: structure every transaction to survive contact with reality, not just to look right on signing day.
Adelaide, South Australia
Sale, acquisition and succession advisory — from origination through execution, structured to protect what makes a business worth buying.
Capital structuring and raising across debt, equity and institutional placement, priced from a real understanding of what a business can carry.
Financial modelling, facility arrangement, bank tenders and working-capital structuring, including export and trade finance.
Capital-structure review, turnaround and strategic direction for when the structure and the operating reality have stopped matching.
Forty-eight years advising on mergers, capital and strategy — the foundation of the firm's judgement.
Established an independent advisory practice in Adelaide, on the principle of execution with integrity.
Head of Corporate Finance, South Australia. Grew the practice by 900% and founded the KPMG Global Wine Industry Group — a global centre of excellence for the sector.
Operated the business first-hand: listed it on London's AIM and raised £12.5m in institutional capital for 48% of the company.
Founded and led a medical-device company — the ClickZip™ retractable safety syringe — scaling to a US$5.5m international distribution partnership.
Founder & Principal
Neville Calvert has spent forty-eight years in corporate finance — as an advisor, a partner, and twice as an operator. He founded Calcorp Capital in 1994 after establishing the practice that became KPMG's Global Wine Industry Group.
He has advised owners and boards through sales, raises and successions across wine, medical technology, agribusiness and infrastructure — and has sat in the operating chair himself, listing a wine company on London's AIM and building a medical-device company to scale. That experience shapes every recommendation the firm makes.
Calcorp Capital works with a limited number of owners and boards at a time. The first conversation is without obligation.
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