Pandea Sell-Side M&A Deal of the Year 2024
AIM says it received the Pandea Global M&A Dealmakers Award for Sell-Side M&A Deal of the Year 2024 (award date and deal not specified).
Canadian Investment Bank
Toronto sell-side M&A boutique for profitable Canadian private companies with $5M–$50M in revenue.
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AIM Group Canada is a Toronto-based M&A boutique founded in 1990 by president Mark Groulx, a former corporate and investment banker. It mainly sells privately owned Canadian businesses (typically profitable, with $5M–$50M of revenue) to private equity and strategic buyers coast to coast, and occasionally advises acquirers. It is a founding member of the Pandea Global M&A network, which gives it cross-border reach in 34 countries. The core deal team is small, with one Director handling research, modelling and diligence alongside senior advisors.
Full sale process for private owners: valuation analysis, data room, buyer research and outreach, negotiation, diligence management and legal review.
Advising acquirers; past example includes Constellation Software buying software assets from Conduent.
As a founding member of the network, AIM can draw on partner firms abroad for international buyers.
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Global bulge brackets and elite boutiques
Global banks
AIM Group Canada works as one generalist team: bankers staff deals across these sectors rather than joining a group, so there is no group to pick when you apply. Single-office Toronto sell-side boutique (member of the Pandea Global M&A network) that presents six focus sectors.
Engineering & Building TradesFood & BeverageEquipment RentalsBusiness ServicesHealthcareSoftware & IT
Sale of a BusinessAcquisition of a Business
President
Leadership
Founded AIM in 1990 and oversees every mandate from origination to close. Earlier spent four years as an investment banker in London at RBC-owned Orion Royal Bank and Libra Bank, after starting as a corporate banker at Bank of America and First National Bank of Chicago. University of Toronto BComm; INSEAD MBA.
Director
Deal team
Joined as an analyst in April 2017 and handles research, financial modelling and due diligence across the firm's mandates. Previously at a mid-market private equity fund. University of Toronto BComm (Finance & Economics); CFA charterholder.
Business Development Advisor
Business development
Twenty-year financial services career spanning RBC corporate and international banking, investment management at Royal Trust and Northern Trust, and institutional equity sales and investment banking, followed by 10+ years in executive search. Ivey MBA.
Advisor
Advisors
Corporate finance executive who has advised on AIM transactions for more than 15 years, with senior finance and operations roles at companies including Virgin and Bell Canada. Ivey HBA; INSEAD MBA.
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AIM says it received the Pandea Global M&A Dealmakers Award for Sell-Side M&A Deal of the Year 2024 (award date and deal not specified).
Mark Groulx founded the firm after investment banking in London.
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