Use Financial Post Crosbie Mergers & Acquisitions in Canada to quickly drill down into specific transactions in the areas that are of vital interest to your firm or clients. You can search for merger, acquisition and divestiture activities by vendor, acquirer, target, deal type, deal value and industry. There are two different search pages to meet your specific needs: simple search (default) and advanced search. Information goes back to 1994 and is exportable into Microsoft Excel.

• Equity acquired transactions must have transfer of ownership of at least 10% of a company’s equity where the purchase price is at least $5,000,000 and where at least one of the parties is in Canada.
• Assets acquired transactions must have the purchase price of at least $5,000,000 and where at least one of the parties is in Canada.
• Four types of transactions (Deal Types) are included:
  • Foreign Target: Any transaction where the Target is situated outside of Canada.
  • Divestiture: Sales of corporate units, including divisions, wholly owned subsidiaries, and certain assets of vendor companies, both public and private.
  • Publicly Traded: Acquisitions of publicly traded companies in Canada, tender offers, statutory mergers, minority-interest purchases except transactions classified as Foreign Target.
  • Privately Owned: Acquisitions of privately held companies except Divestiture and Foreign Target.

Important Notes:

• Transactions are recorded as they are announced, not as they are completed.

• Cancelled transactions are not included in any of the FP M&A statistics.

• Information is updated daily

• Users can export up to 2000 records at a time.

Industry Classifications used:

• FPICS – Financial Post Industry Classification Standard – Industry code designed by the Financial Post DataGroup.
• SIC – Standard Industrial Classification – U.S. version