Axial recognizes a top 2024 transportation deal
Axial cited Capital Canada for one of the top transportation deals of 2024.
Canadian Investment Bank
Long-established Toronto boutique advising entrepreneurs on business sales, financings and valuations, with a strong aviation and transportation record.
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Capital Canada Limited is an independent Toronto investment banking boutique, founded and led by Robert J. Foster, that advises entrepreneurs and mid-market private companies on business sales, growth financing, M&A, valuations and fairness opinions. It says it has advised entrepreneurs for about five decades (49 years as of 2024), and its recent mandates are concentrated in aviation and trucking, including sell-side work on SkyNorth Air, Essential Turbines, LJW Tank Lines and Steelhorse Freight. It is a very small team (a CEO, vice chair, managing director, vice president and associate), so juniors work directly with the principals.
Sell-side processes for founder- and family-owned companies, the bulk of its recent disclosed mandates.
Raising equity, mezzanine and debt financing for private companies, such as financing for Peninsula Capital's 2024 U.S. apartment acquisition.
Buy-side and merger advice, including sourcing acquisition opportunities for clients.
Formal valuations and fairness opinions for corporate clients.
Advisory for special situations, plus financial modelling and due diligence work.
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Capital 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 mid-market investment bank; it presents service lines rather than industry groups.
Business Sales and DivestituresBusiness Valuation and Fairness OpinionsGrowth FinancingMerger and Acquisition Advisory ServicesSpecial Situations Advisory ServicesFinancial Modeling & Due Diligence
Founder, President & CEO
Firm leadership
Founder, President and CEO of Capital Canada, focusing on M&A and financings for entrepreneurs, especially in aviation, media, sports and entertainment, and real estate. Earlier worked as an analyst, research director and in corporate finance and sales. A prominent arts-sector leader who chairs Business and Arts and the TO Live Foundation; Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.); CFA.
Vice Chair & Partner
Firm leadership
Technology founder and executive who founded and ran AI customer-feedback company Chatter Research (acquired by Stingray) and earlier led digital and corporate development at Blue Ant Media and launched services at QuickPlay. Chairs the Ontario Arts Council. LSE master's degree.
Managing Director
Investment Banking
Joined Capital Canada in 2000 after working with the firm as a client from 1997. Advises public and private companies, sources acquisitions and arranges equity, mezzanine and debt financing, with focus on restaurants, cannabis, food and beverage, consumer and real estate. Earlier an advertising executive who developed the Golf Town retail concept.
Vice President
Investment Banking
Joined in November 2021 and executes M&A, equity and debt financings and valuations across aviation, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and real estate; co-led the SkyNorth Air and Essential Turbines sales. Previously a portfolio management associate and a manufacturing engineer. McMaster B.Eng., Laurier MBA, CFA.
Associate
Investment Banking
Joined in June 2022; does financial analysis, market research and memorandum drafting on financing and M&A mandates. Previously a strategy and corporate development analyst at Canada Life and earlier at a boutique debt-advisory firm. University of Toronto graduate.
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Jan 1, 2025
SkyNorth Air Ltd.
Exclusive financial advisor to SkyNorth Air (sell-side) · Aviation (air ambulance)
Buyer Northway Aviation (a Westcap Mgt. portfolio company) · Seller SkyNorth Air co-owners
Sale of Manitoba fixed-wing air ambulance operator SkyNorth Air to Westcap-backed Northway Aviation; the firm's second aviation deal closed in 2024.
Aug 1, 2024
183 residential units in Cleveland, Ohio
Financial advisor to Buyer and arranger of financing · Real Estate
Buyer Peninsula Capital Corp.
Canadian private company Peninsula Capital bought a 183-unit property in Cleveland for US$12 million, its entry into a third U.S. market.
Jun 25, 2024
Steelhorse Freight Services Inc.
Exclusive financial advisor to Seller (with Transport Capital Limited) · Transportation (trucking)
Buyer Wildwood Transport Inc. · Seller Steelhorse Freight Services shareholders
Sale of Steelhorse Freight Services to Wildwood Transport, advised jointly with Transport Capital Limited.
May 29, 2024
Essential Turbines Inc.
Exclusive advisor to Essential Turbines (sell-side) · Aerospace (engine maintenance, repair and overhaul)
Buyer Swift Anchor Holdings · Seller Essential Turbines founder/shareholders
Divestiture of Montréal-headquartered helicopter and fixed-wing engine MRO provider Essential Turbines to investment firm Swift Anchor Holdings.
Mar 15, 2024
LJW Tank Lines
Exclusive financial advisor to Seller (with Transport Capital Limited) · Transportation (tank trucking)
Buyer TFI International · Seller LJW Tank Lines shareholders
Sale of LJW Tank Lines to TFI International, advised jointly with Transport Capital Limited.
Axial cited Capital Canada for one of the top transportation deals of 2024.
Second aviation transaction closed by the firm in 2024.
The firm says it was the only Canadian bank on Axial's Q2 2024 list.
Sale of the Montréal aerospace MRO business to Swift Anchor Holdings.
Sell-side mandate with Transport Capital Limited.
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