What's in store for Canadian private equity in 2015? Torys LLP recently released its annual Private Equity in Focus, which looks at how M&A activity involving PE in 2014 has set the stage for this year’s transactions. In the first of a series of peHUB Canada articles, Michael Akkawi, Guy Berman and Sophia Tolias discuss how recent shifts in market dynamics have shaped current opportunities.
Co-investment opportunities have lately gained in popularity among institutional investors and other limited partners with increased leverage in private equity funds. As it happens, co-investments have also proved appealing to many PE fund sponsors. Torys LLP believes there is every reason to expect this trend to accelerate in 2015.
Two things happened shortly before we went to press with this issue in mid-January that seemed almost symbolic of some larger truth.
Torys LLP has released its much-anticipated M&A Top Trends 2015 report. Of course, the state of mergers and acquisitions is always of importance to private equity and venture capital investors, especially now that dealmaking in Canada is on the upswing. For this reason, Torys has identified some key report findings that will be of particular interest to them.
In my perch observing the industry from as close inside as possible, I don’t always take a look outside to see the effects on the places and people where private equity makes its investments.
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Despite the perils of forecasting what the future may hold for Canadian private equity and venture capital firms, it is perhaps now more important than ever to do so, writes Richard Rémillard in an exclusive article for peHUB Canada. His advice for those professionals who are now thinking about what 2015 may hold: Be prepared!
A meteor is coming and it is going to kill your firm’s deal flow, writes guest columnist Devin Mathews of ParkerGale. Here's what you need to do to survive the Apocalypse.
Recent calls for public pension funds to disclose the terms that govern their investments in private equity funds ignore the substantial benefits that this very confidentiality provides the pension and its beneficiaries, writes Steve Judge, CEO of the Private Equity Growth Capital Council.
Private capital can play a meaningful role in certain areas of the energy infrastructure build out across North America, but it is not always the best option.