Private Equity

Canada

PE-backed Canadian companies show outsized growth: study

A PwC Canada-CVCA study found small businesses in Canada backed by private equity investment showed stronger growth relative to non-PE backed equivalents.

3 min read · 01 December 2020

Audax to acquire controlling stake in 48forty

Audax Private Equity has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in 48forty from Grey Mountain Partners.

3 min read · 01 December 2020

Hudson Pacific, CPPIB to buy Seattle office tower for $625m

Hudson Pacific Properties and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have agreed to purchase 1918 8th Avenue, a 668,000-square-foot office tower in Seattle, Washington for US$625 million.

3 min read · 01 December 2020

Onex cashes out of SIG, expects to see $725m in proceeds

Onex Corp has sold 32.3 million shares of SIG Combibloc Group, a Switzerland-based systems and solutions provider for aseptic carton packaging.

4 min read · 01 December 2020

Clairvest invests in beverage maker Brunswick Bierworks

Canadian mid-market private equity firm Clairvest Group has invested in Brunswick Bierworks, a Toronto-based maker of beer, pre-mixed alcoholic beverages, non-alcoholic beer and other drinks.

2 min read · 01 December 2020

Cinven, BCI to acquire Compre Group from CBPE Capital

Cinven and British Columbia Investment Management Corp have agreed to acquire Compre Group, a European specialist consolidator of closed books of non-life insurance policies.

4 min read · 01 December 2020

Ontario Teachers' acquires majority of Nvision Eye Centers

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has acquired a majority stake in NVISION Eye Centers, an Aliso Viejo, California-based provider of comprehensive eye care services.

3 min read · 01 December 2020

Portfolio firms reinvent themselves and become Covid chameleons

Lessons learned from PE-backed companies that had the vision to nimbly reinvent their operations in response to the pandemic

7 min read · 01 December 2020

ServiceNow strikes deal to acquire VC-backed Element AI

ServiceNow has agreed to acquire Element AI, a Montreal-based developer of artificial intelligence-enabled software solutions.

3 min read · 30 November 2020

Lion Electric to merge with SPAC Northern Genesis

Lion Electric Company, a St-Jérôme, Quebec-based maker of electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has agreed to combine with Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company.

6 min read · 30 November 2020

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