When Covid-19 hit North America in earnest in mid-March, its no secret that the M&A market saw a dramatic slow-down in activity. Three months on, and the M&A market has shifted dramatically again, this time for the better.
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October was a busy month and we saw a nice rebound in both the software VC and M&A markets. Let’s dive a little deeper into both.
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While it's been encouraging to see some of the big Venture Capital (VC) investments into Canadian technology companies over the last few months, the headlines cover-up a much more alarming trend. If you look at dollar volume of VC investments as a % of the activity in the US, the trend has actually been in the opposite direction - i.e. there is less money being invested today in Canada as a % of the money that's being invested in the United States that there was in 2012.
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Over 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...
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The 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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