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ABOUT

Tailored advice from experienced, commercially minded professionals.

 

Headwater Capital provides strategic advice on capital, partnerships, governance, and development opportunities. We work with clients who are building businesses, evaluating investments, negotiating project relationships, or making decisions with long-term consequences for their organizations and communities.

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We understand capital.

We help clients think clearly about how ventures and organizations are financed, how they generate returns, and how they manage cash over time. Sound decisions about capital structure, funding, and cash flow are essential if economic development is to produce durable benefit.

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We look for practical opportunity.

Over many years, we have helped identify ways for community organizations to create value from the assets, rights, relationships, and opportunities available to them. We bring commercial judgment to situations that require both creativity and discipline.​

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We are comfortable with complexity.

Ambitious projects are rarely simple. They involve multiple parties, competing interests, imperfect information, and consequential decisions. We help clients assess whether the opportunity is real, whether the structure is workable, and whether the people involved are positioned to deliver.

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We are relentlessly practical.

There is rarely a straight line from an initial opportunity to a successful outcome. But there are clear answers to the questions that arise along the way. We pride ourselves on giving clients those answers directly, promptly, and in a form they can use.

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Our approach

Headwater Capital is not built around volume. It is built around judgment. We focus on assignments where clear thinking, commercial realism, and strong written advice can materially improve the quality of a decision.

Meet the Team

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Pieter van Gils

Principal

(778)-866-4207

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Diane Friedman

Consultant

(604)-440-9677

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