PowerOne has financed and/or provided advisory services to over 130 clients with projects on every continent (except Antarctica). PowerOne and its principals have also been instrumental in the creation, financing and development of numerous high profile Canadian and international success stories.  See below for more information on our involvement with some of these distinguished clients.

•  Adira Energy Ltd.

  

  Adira Energy Ltd. is a listed Canadian domiciled, oil & gas exploration and development company.

•  AfriOre Ltd.

  

  AfriOre Ltd. was a minerals exploration company with gold and PGM projects and engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of resource properties in Africa and elsewhere. AfriOre was ultimately sold to Lonmin Plc. in 2007 for approx CAD $450,000,000. PowerOne was a member of the syndicate raising CAD $7,000,000 in its early stages of operation.

• Aurelian Resources Inc.

  

  Aurelian was a gold exploration company in Ecuador. PowerOne and its principals were instrumental in the creation of Aurelian, its initial financings as well as Aurelian’s going public transaction. Aurelian was sold to Kinross Gold for $870M in 2008 based on its 13,700,000 ounce gold discovery.

• Aus Potash Corp.

  

  Aus Potash Corp was acquired by Sirius Exploration Plc in 2008.  Sirius Exploration Plc is a diversified mining and exploration holding company. The Company has major interests in properties overlying three recognised – and significant - salt deposits in North America and Australia. PowerOne was involved in raising approximately CAD $4 million and has also serviced the company in a financial advisory role.
   
  Sirius also continues to hold historic copper and gold interests in Macedonia and an iron ore interest in China through its equity position in a CIC Mining Resources Ltd. vehicle.

• Brownstone Ventures Inc.

  

  Brownstone Ventures is a Canadian-based, energy-focused investment company with direct interests in oil and gas assets around the world. By owning and managing a diversified portfolio of energy-based projects, Brownstone provides shareholders with a unique energy investment alternative. PowerOne is currently Brownstone’s primary financial advisor and continues to work closely with the company.  PowerOne has also helped Brownstone raise over CAD $16 million.   

• Buchanan Renewables Inc.

  

  Buchanan Renewables was a private company involved in development of biomass power generation in war torn Liberia. Buchanan’s operations not only helped reestablish the economy in the area through the training and employment of over 1000 local inhabitants, it also worked with the farmers to repair their land, teach them to grow alternative cash crops and has repaired hundreds of miles roads to mention but a few of the ways they had helped. In 2008, Buchanan was acquired by The McCall MacBain Foundation, a Foundation started by Canadian billionaire John McCall MacBain to promote health and the environment in the developing world. PowerOne capital helped finance and advise Buchanan Renewables from its early stages, participating in a $9.5M financing, through to its eventual acquisition by the McCall MacBain Foundation.

• Canwest Petroleum Corporation

  

  Canwest Petroleum, now operating as Oilsands Quest Inc., is a public company engaged in a variety of projects in the oil and gas industry in Western Canada with an emphasis on the oil sands. The company is aggressively exploring Canada's largest contiguous oil sands land holding, which is located in northeast Alberta and northwest Saskatchewan. Oilsands Quest is leading the development of an oil sands industry in the province of Saskatchewan. PowerOne was acted as advisor to Canwest Petroleum.

• Cline Mining Corp.

  

  Cline is a Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX – “CMK”) listed company in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing mine mineral resource properties to production in Canada, United States and overseas. The Company is a growth-oriented mine finder, developer and operator with an experienced management team and is supported by its strategic international corporate partner and shareholder, Mitsui Matsushima, a Japanese coal miner and conglomerate, which is also represented on the Cline Board of Directors.

• Colossus Minerals Inc.

  

  The principals of PowerOne are the co-founders, advisors and financiers of Colossus Minerals Inc. which is developing the high-grade Serra Pelada gold/platinum/palladium project currently being advanced toward production in Brazil. PowerOne was also member of the syndicate in the recent CDN $71,875,000 bought deal financing.

• Continental Gold Ltd.

  

  Continental is a privately held, Bermuda-based, gold exploration company formed in May 2007 that has seven 100% owned gold exploration projects on over 100,000 hectares of exploration concessions in some of the most prospective gold districts in Colombia. The principals of PowerOne have acted as merchant banker, initial financiers, and are currently completing a CAD$32 million financing to advance the package of gold exploration projects in Colombia.

• Delavaco Energy Inc.

  

  Delavaco was a private oil & gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary and Toronto, with regional operations office in Bogota, Colombia.  Delavaco was incorporated in November 2007. From November 2007 through 2008 the company raised funds by way of Private Placements to finance the purchase of assets and operations and acquired additional working interests during this time. PowerOne was a member of the Syndicate which raised over $13 million during this time.  In September 2009, Alange Energy Corp acquired from the shareholders of Delavaco all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Delavaco in exchange for common shares of Alange Energy. Delavaco's financial advisor was Canaccord Capital Corp., while  PowerOne Capital Markets Limited and Clarus Securities Inc. acted as strategic advisors for Delavaco.

• Evolving Gold Corporation

  

  Evolving Gold is focused on exploring its significant discovery at Rattlesnake Hills, Wyoming, an alkalic gold system, similar to the Cripple Creek gold district in Colorado.

  PowerOne was involved in the recent financing of approximately CAD $11 million.

• Intercontinental Potash Corp.

  

  ICP is developing its Ochoa New Mexico property with the primary purpose of using polyhalite as feedstock to produce Sulphate of Potash. Sulphate of Potash, “SOP” or Potassium Sulphate, is premium priced potash. The market for SOP is approximately 4 million tonnes per year. SOP is used as a significant alternative fertilizer to sylvite (Muriate of Potash or MOP) for agricultural products such as fruits, vegetables, tobacco, potatoes, and horticultural plants. SOP has low "salinity" compared to MOP, and therefore is also used in various saline soils in the world, which are found for example in China, India, the Mediterranean, and the United States. PowerOne was instrumental in advising management during the creation and recent restructuring of Intercontinental Potash, as well as advising on the reverse takeover transaction. PowerOne has also been involved in raising CAD $5.5 million for Intercontinental Potash since its inception.

• Lithium Americas Corp.

  

  Lithium Americas is a junior exploration and development company focused on the exploration and development of Lithium, Potash, Borax and other industrial minerals in South America. 

  PowerOne  was involved in the initial private placement and has raised approximately CAD $12 million for Lithium Americas to date.  PowerOne played a financing and advisory role as well as facilitated discussions with strategic partners.

• Mega Uranium Ltd.

  

  Mega Uranium is a Canadian mineral resources company with a focus on uranium projects. It has uranium resources in Australia and uranium exploration projects in Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Canada and Cameroon. In addition, Mega Uranium has interests in base and precious minerals exploration properties in Canada and Latin America.  PowerOne has been involved with Mega Uranium since its inception in both a financial and advisory capacity. 

• Petrolifera Petroleum Limited

  

  Petrolifera Petroleum Limited – Petrolifera is a Calgary-based crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company active in South America. Petrolifera holds interests in approximately six million acres of petroleum and natural gas rights in eleven onshore concessions or licenses in Argentina, Colombia and Peru. PowerOne has been the primary advisor and merchant bank to Petrolifera since its inception. PowerOne has been the primary advisor and Merchant Bank to Petrolifera since its inception.  PowerOne was most recently involved in raising approximately $8.5 million for Petrolifera and advising on the Initial Public Offering. 

  Pat DiCapo currently sits on Petrolifera’s Board of Directors. 

• Primera Energy Resources Ltd.

  

  Primera Energy is independent Canadian oil and gas company, the result of a reverse takeover of Optimal Services Limited on January 2007. Since starting in 2005, Primera has acquired assets onshore Trinidad, and has interests in assets located onshore India and in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin of Canada. Primera continues to pursue opportunities onshore Trinidad in the highly productive Southern Sedimentary Basin. PowerOne was involved in the recent $4,000,000 equity financing.

• Quetzal Energy Inc.

  

  Quetzal Energy Inc. is a well-financed Canadian-based energy company with exploration and production assets in Guatemala and interests in Colombia in the Llanos basin.
  PowerOne is a longstanding financier and advisor to Quetzal having helped Quetzal raise over CAD $20 million. PowerOne also recently advised Quetzal with respect to its reverse takeover of Southhampton Ventures and was also responsible for the financing component of the transaction.

• Rolling Rock Resources Corporation

  

  Rolling Rock Resources Corp. (TSX.V:RLL) is a Canadian exploration company focused on acquiring and developing resource projects. Rolling Rock has two gold exploration projects in Northern Manitoba: the Domain Property and the Monument Bay Project.

• Stans Energy Corp.

  

  Stans Energy Corp. is a company focused on developing Rare Earth Elements (REEs), Uranium, and Associated Metals. The headquarters of the company is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and its wholly-owned subsidiary company, Stans Energy KG, is located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Stans Energy Corp’s Chairman, Rodney Irwin, is the Honorary Consul of the Kyrgyz Republic for Canada.

  Stans owns five mineral properties in Kyrgyzstan, of which Kutessay II is most advanced.

• Western Potash Corp.

  

  Western Potash is a mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition, evaluation and exploration of potash mineral properties in Western Canada. Western Potash Corp. has over 860,000 acres of potash permits and applications in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada.

  Western Potash was able to raise in excess of 45 million CAD from institutional and retail investors, and PowerOne advised on the reverse takeover in May 2008.