Views From the Market
Stikeman Elliott
Stikeman Elliott provides creative Canadian legal services to clients around the world.
In this series of 15-minute podcasts on private equity and midmarket M&A, with a focus on Canada, a wide range of industry participants discuss the deal market trends that they’ve been seeing. The host and originator of the series is Mario Nigro, M&A partner at Stikeman Elliott in Toronto.
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In this series of 15-minute podcasts on private equity and midmarket M&A, with a focus on Canada, a wide range of industry participants discuss the deal market trends that they’ve been seeing. The host and originator of the series is Mario Nigro, M&A partner at Stikeman Elliott in Toronto.
Read more about Mario Nigro: https://bit.ly/3IkJsPJ
🔗 To stay connected and receive the latest updates, subscribe to our podcast on Soundcloud, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts
🔗 Follow Stikeman Elliott on LinkedIn for more insights
🔗 For more information and resources, visit stikeman.com/viewsfromthemarket
Episodes
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Jul 7, 2021 • 17min
Episode 7 - Turning a Regional Canadian Business into a Continent-wide Innovator
In this podcast, Mario Nigro is joined by Rob Cherun, an Ottawa native and CEO of Stealth Monitoring, a success story of Canadian entrepreneurship. They discuss the company’s expansion from regional business to significant player in the U.S. and Canadian commercial video surveillance markets, as well as its future possibilities.
Jun 23, 2021 • 17min
Episode 6 - Private Equity Without a Permanent Fund: The Argyle Capital Approach
Mark MacPherson is co-founder and partner of Argyle Capital Partners Inc., a Toronto-based midmarket firm. In this podcast, he and Mario Nigro discuss Argyle’s approach of raising capital for each specific deal rather than creating a pool of committed capital and finding ways to deploy it, as well as the company’s response to the pandemic.
Jun 17, 2021 • 19min
Episode 5 - Opportunities at the Lower End of the Midmarket
Glen Silvestri, co-founder and managing partner of Toronto-based Sage Capital Partners, joins us to discuss his company’s experiences as an investor in businesses at the lower end of the Canadian midmarket. While there are challenges to working in this neglected market niche, there are also many rewards.
Jun 9, 2021 • 18min
Episode 4 - Investing in Canada during the Pandemic: A U.S. Private Equity Perspective
Chip Chaikin, whose Ohio-based firm is about 20% invested in Canada, discusses the challenge of looking for deals and managing relations with portfolio companies across a closed border and refers to some of the differences in the pandemic response in Canada and the United States.
Jun 2, 2021 • 17min
Episode 3 - Midmarket/Entrepreneurial M&A Advisory in the Pandemic
Alan Chettiar discusses the resilience he has seen, as an advisor to midmarket entrepreneurs, over the past year. The software sector has been strong throughout the period and most other sectors are now back on track, as buyers begin to price deals on a post-Covid basis.
May 18, 2021 • 17min
Episode 2 - Midmarket Lending: A Banker’s Perspective
Ross Thomas is involved in midmarket lending and discusses what he has been seeing in the Mississauga-Etobicoke (Toronto-area) market, which is home to many industrial and logistics companies, during the pandemic. Transition management and succession planning have continued to be busy.
May 18, 2021 • 18min
Episode 1 - Evolution of Representation and Warranty Insurance
Sean Flinn joins us to discuss how RWI is used in transactions involving PE firms and how Canada is following the lead of other countries in using it in a wider range of situations.
