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One of the grey areas for real estate development, private equity and venture capital firms (“sponsors”) that serially launch new funds is how frequently a sponsor can come to market with a new fund offering without hitting...more
Première partie d’une série sur la création de fonds et sur les investissements dans ceux-ci. Les fonds de capital-investissement représentent une activité importante au Canada. Selon PitchBook, il existe près de 500...more
This is the first part of a multi-part series on fund formations and investments. Private equity funds are big business in Canada. According to PitchBook, there are almost 500 private equity funds in Canada, and that does...more
The Institutional Limited Partner Association (ILPA) published new guidance on May 15, 2023, relating to continuation funds. The guidelines build on ILPA's prior (2019) guidance on best practices for GP-led secondary fund...more
A Q&A guide to private equity law in Canada. The Q&A gives a high level overview of the key practical issues including the level of activity and recent trends in the market; investment incentives for institutional and...more
A Tool for Portfolio Management - While the secondaries market has traditionally provided opportunities for limited partners to exit from private equity funds, there has been an increase in General Partner (GP)-led...more
The first nine months of 2021 set records for global M&A activity and kept private equity firms especially busy. An abundance of dry powder and low interest rates have encouraged private equity investors to make up for lost...more
More and more buyers are using representation and warranty insurance (RWI) to supplement or replace indemnities from a seller in the sale of a business in Canada. While some of our clients, particularly private equity funds,...more
Private equity funds that own British Columbia companies face an onerous, new administrative burden under recent amendments to the province’s Business Corporation Act (BCA). The changes could discourage the use of B.C....more
Westport Fuel Systems, a Canadian clean fuel technology company, and its former CEO, Nancy Gougarty, agreed to settle FCPA charges with the SEC for $4.1 million and $120k, respectively....more
As part of our quarterly series on current trends across different industries, our third article examines Canadian private equity. Through our experience advising buyers, sellers, investors and/or targets, we’ve highlighted...more
Are going private transactions on the rise? Conditions are ripe for an increased number of private equity-led buyouts of public companies. In a "lower for longer" commodity price environment, Canadian energy and...more
Proving that big data and digital companies continue to intrigue big investors, big data analytics company Informatica has been purchased by private equity group Permira and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $5.3...more