Eric Martineau-Fortin, Jean-François Marcoux and Sep Alavi led WSC (White Star Capital) Digital Assets II Limited Partnership held US $60M initial close with anchor commitment from Ubisoft. Continue Reading
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited to acquire additional 25M shares of Atlas Corp. through warrant exercises, increasing beneficial ownership from 39.6% to 45.1% of issued and outstanding common shares of Atlas. Continue Reading
Elliott Investment Management L.P.’s Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation and Brookfield Business Partners L.P. and its institutional partners entered into agreement to take Nielsen Holdings plc private for US $16B. Continue Reading
Avast plc (LSE: AVST) to acquire SecureKey Technologies Inc. from Blue Sky Capital, BMO, CIBC, RBC, ScotiaBank, TD, Desjardins, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, TELUS and Intel Capital.
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Indigenous Critical Infrastructure Fund Canada (ICIF) and a special purpose private equity fund managed by Portland Investment Counsel Inc. invested Є33M in ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE. Continue Reading
ASSA ABLOY Group to acquire Vigil Health Solutions Inc. for $12.55M from Greg Peet, PenderFund Capital Management Ltd., Wayne Enright and other shareholdersContinue Reading
Constellation Software Inc. launched US $200M VMS Ventures VC fund that targets businesses that have the potential to become standalone business units within Constellation. Daan Dijkhuizen will lead the fundContinue Reading
Argentina, Uruguay and Spain based Myelin VC held US $24M initial close for its second fund Myelin II, a British Columbia domiciled fund with funding target of US $50MContinue Reading
Fonds de solidarité FTQ and Export Development Canada (EDC) invested $15M in new Abipa Canada, dba ABIPA International, formed by Abipa Canada Inc. and Ace Capital Partners and IRDI Capital Investissement backed French company Groupe ARM.Continue Reading
Anjac SAS, along with Charles Wachsberg and Richard Wachsberg, co-CEOs of Apollo Healthcare Corp., to take Apollo private for $327MContinue Reading
Hg backed Prophix acquired Sigma Conso from Fortino Capital, Dominique Galloy and others. Financial terms were not disclosed.Continue Reading
White Star Capital closed third flagship fund with $450M from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Investissement Québec (IQ), Desjardins, Kensington Capital Partners, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, BDC, Beneva, Roynat Capital, Harbourvest, Ubisoft, and many of White Star Capital backed current and previous entrepreneurs.Continue Reading
Leaseweb Global B.V. acquired iWeb Technologies Inc. from Internap Holdings LLCContinue Reading
OMERS Private Equity and Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) to sell their majority stake in Environmental Resources Management Limited (ERM) to KKR for undisclosed amount.Continue Reading
Apax Partners backed GRAITEC Innovation SAS acquired StrucSoft Solutions from founder George Ajami who retained a minority stake in the company.
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Providence Strategic Growth, Verdane backed Hornetsecurity acquired Zerospam Sécurité from founder David Poellhuber and family. Continue Reading
Quadient acquired 96% of Beanworks for €70M from founders Catherine Dahl, Reza Sanaie, Tracy Thompson and Cory Cleaver, backers FINTOP Capital, BDC Capital and Rhino Ventures, and others.Continue Reading
