Canada

Lightyear, JC Flowers and GTCR are among the PE firms making tracks in the space this year.

Some of the biggest deals that closed in Q1 were in the TMT sector: Silver Lake bought Endeavor for about $10bn; IBM bought HashiCorp for $8.1bn; Blackstone and Vista bought Smartsheet for $7.9bn.

Jim Kelly is a full-service insurance brokerage.

WSP is an engineering and professional services company based in Montreal.

Montreal-based Sogica specializes in personalized business communications.

CBI is an outpatient rehabilitation and integrated community healthcare services provider.

Aside from Pophouse Entertainment buying the KISS catalog for $300 million or HarbourView Equity Partners snapping up the music catalog assets of artists that include Nelly or Pat Benatar, smaller deals prevail.

Hoist is an Ottawa-based systems integrator and services provider focused on IFS’s suite of enterprise software.

Kaira is a financial technology company specializing in digital financial coaching.

Converge is a Canadian services-led, software-enabled IT and cloud services provider.