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We always hear from numerous people the complaint that Canadian businesses sell too early especially when compared to their US counterparts. It’s an interesting notion that is always raised when a sale of a large Canadian tech company happens – BlueCat Networks’ recent $400m sale is a good example.
Rather than just relying on hearsay, we thought that it was worthy of us analyzing the numbers to see if it is true that Canadian firms sell too early...
Read MoreGiven our recent post on LinkedIn about the breakdown of VC investment by Canadian city attracted over 4,000 views and a lot of comments, we thought it would be worthwhile to do a deeper dive on this topic...
Read More2016 was an amazing year for mergers and acquisitions, especially in the technology sector. In tech, it was the highest M&A activity we have seen in north America in the last 15+ years. We believe many of the factors that drove this strong performance are in place to make sure 2017 is just as strong, if not better. In this blog, we will highlight some of these trends from 2016 and discuss why we think everything is in place for a very robust 2017.
Read MoreOver the last twelve months we have really been able to prove our thesis that technology firms in Canada are in desperate need of quality M&A advisory services. We started this journey with an idea that our 25+ years of combined Wall Street experience could be a significant asset for many technology firms in Ottawa that are looking to acquire other businesses or working towards an exit and that has been proved over the last twelve months...
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago we hosted our first ever Tech Leadership Conference. With approximately 100 attendees, it was great to see such broad participation from the leaders of many of Ottawa’s technology companies. We moderated three separate panels, focusing on M&A, the Venture Capital environment and IPOs. With a good mix of out-of-town experts and local CEOs and CFOs that had experienced these processes first hand, the panels covered these critical topics from both sides of the coin.....
Read MoreMerger and acquisition activity is really picking up, especially in technology where many of the large tech companies have plenty of cash and are finding themselves losing market share to smaller more nimble competitors.
But while M&A is in the headlines a lot recently, for every two transactions that close, there's another transaction that doesn't.....
Read MoreWe often get asked by our clients that are considering M&A, whether or not Canadian tech companies trade at a discount to their US peers. In a perfect market there shouldn’t be a difference between the two, but as we all know, markets are rarely perfect.....
Read MoreThe Canadian tech merger market has started the year off very strong, with $5.1bn of transactions compared to $3.1bn in all of 2015. In Ottawa we have seen a similar trend with 9 M&A transactions as of the end of June versus 10 for the whole of 2015.
But what’s driving this increased activity? A sizeable proportion of this deal activity is driven by what’s known as inbound M&A.....
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