Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners to acquire control of Xplornet from Sandler Capital, Barrett Corporation, WaveDivision Capital, Werklund Family Office, McKenna Gale Capital, Catalyst Investors.
Airbus and Government of Québec acquired remaining 34% interest held by Bombardier in A220 Programme to own 75/25 stake
John Risley’s Northern Private Capital to acquire MDA, formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., from Maxar Technologies for CDN $1B
Clairvest Group controlled Top Aces secured $100M equity funding from Clairvest, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and its other existing investors.
Ontario Teachers’ Innovation Platform (TIP) and 4 co-investors invested US $535.74M in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to acquire Bombardier’ regional jet program for US $550 million in cash and the assumption of liabilities of US $200 million.
Bombardier closed $300M sale of De Havilland Aircraft and the entire Dash 8 program to Longview Aviation Capital
Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Ontario Teachers’ to acquire Inmarsat at US $7.21 for over US $3.34B in equity value and US $5.7B in enterprise value
Airbus to rebrand majority owned, Bombardier and Investissement Québec minority owned, C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership (CSALP), as Airbus Canada Limited Partnership.
Fonds de solidarité increased stake in Héroux-Devtek Inc. (TSX: HRX) becoming 2nd largest shareholder, behind Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)
NorthStar Earth and Space secured $52M additional funding from governments of Canada and Quebec, Telesystem Space, and the Space Alliance of Europe.
Security and weapons detection solutions provider, Liberty Defense Holdings, closed $7M private placement financing brokered by Canaccord Genuity Corp.
Kepler Communications secured US $16M Series A funding from Costanoa Ventures, Deutsche Bahn’s (DB) Digital Ventures, IA Ventures
GHGSat, global emissions monitoring services provider, secured US $10M Series A2 funding from OGCI Climate Investments, Schlumberger, Space Angels, BDC Capital.
Government of Quebec invested $13 million in NorStar Space Data (NorthStar) as part of NorthStar’s $52 million first round of financing.
Maxar Technologies’ MDA acquired leading LIDAR company Neptec Design Group for CDN $42M in cash and stock deal
Airbus SE (EPA: AIR) closed acquisition of 50.01% majority stake in C Series Aircraft Limited Partnership; Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) and Investissement Québec will own 34% and 16% respectively
