James Cartales

My Career Highlights

Founding member of the Consumer, Retail & E-Commerce team at Cascadia
Leads Retail and E-Commerce coverage
First job was as a “shopping cart transportation engineer” at a grocery store

My Personal Interests

Spending time with my wife, children, and extended family
Barbecue enthusiast, and part-time grill master – ribs are my specialty
Competitive pickle-baller and aspiring angler

My Expertise

Advising founder and family-owned retail, ecommerce and consumer-facing companies that are approaching an inflection point in their business on the appropriate and optimal capital strategies.

I take a demographic-driven approach to understanding the value drivers for both emerging and established middle market consumer and retail brands. Within the firm, I have unique experience structuring multi-unit retail and restaurant M&A transactions and recapitalizations, including real estate and sale leaseback components.

My Bio

James is a Managing Director in Cascadia’s Consumer, Retail, and E-Commerce practice. In this role he focuses on advising retailers and omnichannel branded consumer companies on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and private placements.

As a founding member of the firm’s Consumer practice, he has been involved with the execution of most of the firm’s marquee retail and branded consumer transactions. Throughout his career he has personally completed over 45 transactions worth billions of dollars of combined enterprise value. He has a particular focus on the intersection of consumer products and services and the evolving retail channels by which they are marketed and sold.

James holds a B.A. from Bucknell University where he graduated magna cum laude and is a FINRA registered representative, holding the Series 79 and 63 licenses.

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