Hilco UK Ltd., the international arm of Hilco Trading Co. in the United States, last month quietly launched a new investment platform focused on distress opportunities in Canada – Re:Capital Canada LP.
Clairvest Group is racking up quite a track record. The Toronto-based firm last month won the 2013 ‘Deal of the Year’ from Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association for its sale of PEER 1 Network Enterprises -- its third such win in the past five years.
The C100 was founded in late 2009 by a group of 100 Canadian expats working in northern California as venture professionals and executives of technology start-ups and major companies like Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce.com.
Relay Ventures has been in the thick of North American mobile deal-making since its launch in 2012. In 2013, it might have found its most promising deal yet in Toronto digital media startup theScore.
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of Canada’s largest and most innovative, named Ron Mock to succeed Jim Leech as its president and CEO, according to a spokeswoman, Deborah Allan. Since 2008, according to Buyouts, peHUB's sister magazine, Mock has been the pension’s senior vice president in charge of fixed income and alternative investments...
Tapping into a pool of investors outside of the Great White North for the first time, , Camcor Partners hit the hard cap on its Camcor Energy Fund VII in just six months, raising $350 million.
In the land of private equity, firms often step on one another when looking for deals. But Bonnefield Financial has managed to find a fertile patch of soil where few others have trodden.
JOG Capital is weeks away from capping its sixth partnership, peHUB Canada has learned. The Calgary-based private equity firm, which focuses on the energy sector, confirmed that it has has secured $510 million to date for its sixth fund, or 57% more than its previous fund.
Desire2Learn founder and CEOJohn Baker explains why he decided to raise growth capital after 13 years of going it alone -- and how New Enterprise Associates and OMERS Ventures have helped the Ontario-based company supercharge its growth.
Caledon Capital Management has kept a low profile since its founding in 2006 by David Rogers, former head of private equity at Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. But that hasn't stopped it from growing to 17 professionals who work on behalf of seven clients, most of them Canadian and U.S. pension plans sized between $3 billion and $20 billion.