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August 2010M&A News - July 2010
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Things were quiet this month on the private M&A front;
we saw only four transactions. Despite
the scarcity of activity, it was good to see exits by three Canadian software
companies. The fourth Canadian company
acquired this July is based in
M&A News - June 2010
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There were 11 private M&A transactions reported this
month. Seven of these deals involved a
target companies headquartered in
M&A News - May 2010
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There were six private M&A deals reported in May. Three of the announcements were cross-border
transactions involving one Canadian buyer and two Canadian targets. One of the Canadian targets was lucky enough
to accomplish what so many technology startups predict that they will do when
they’re out raising money, they sold to Google. The other four Canadian companies acquired in
May were all service providers. Overall,
only two of the six acquisitions were made by financial buyers.
M&A News - April 2010
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There were 14 private M&A transactions reported in
April. A lot of the activity involved
Ontario-based companies, with seven Ontario-based acquirers, and eight
transactions involving the acquisition of an
M&A News - March 2010
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There were 13 M&A deals reported in March. Four of the announcements involved a cross-border transaction – half of which had the Canadian company as the target. Only three of the deals involved financial buyers as the headlines were dominated by strategic acquirers. Overall, the buyers snapped up six service businesses, four technology companies, a men’s clothing company, a local search publisher, and a national lottery. The busiest province was definitely
March 2010
M&A News - February 2010
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In February, there were eight acquisitions of private
companies that involved a private Canadian entity on at least one end of the
transaction. This total represents an
increase from the four transactions we reported in February 2009, but slightly
lower than the 11 transactions reported last month. None of the buyers came from the private
equity sector - the headlines were dominated by strategic buyers. Four of the eight deals were cross-border
transactions and only one of these international deals involved a Canadian
buyer. This means that in total there
were seven Canadian companies acquired in February. Three of the Canadian companies that were
bought are in the technology sector while the other four consisted of....
M&A News - December 2009 / January 2010
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There were six private M&A transactions reported
during December with four of these involving TSX-traded companies acquiring a
private Canadian company. The only
cross-border transaction involved a private, Canada-based acquirer taking over
a none-core asset of a large, US-based company.
In January 2010 we came across 11 M&A transactions in
the private markets. Nine of the deals were..
M&A News - November 2009
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In a month that was very quiet in terms of financing activity we did see considerable M&A deal flow. The 12 transactions that occurred in November represent the highest total we have reported since December of 2007. Of these 12 transactions, six involved a financial buyer, although one of those was merely providing additional backing to finance a strategic acquisition. There were three acquisitions of Canadian technology companies, all small transactions, two of which were made by
November 2009M&A News - October 2009
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We came across six M&A announcements this October. Two of these involved cross-border transactions. Things slowed down somewhat from the ten transactions we reported in September. This October we also did not see any direct acquisitions by financial buyers, although we did see an indirect buyout by an
M&A News - September 2009
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September was a relatively busy month in terms of M&A deal flow. Eight of the 10 transactions this month were of the cross border variety. Among these, there were three headlines involving the private equity arms of large Canadian pension funds, as well as a transaction where two traditional Canadian PE shops acquired an Ontario-based manufacturer of custom garments. The other Canadian-based acquisition targets this month were comprised of three technology companies, a specialty retailer and a financially distressed manufacturer of anti-terrorism equipment.
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