Doane Grant Thornton

Corporate Finance Advisory

Canada's Grant Thornton member firm: a national transactions group that sells and buys owner-managed mid-market businesses from offices across English Canada.

Headquarters: Toronto, ON
Canadian offices: Toronto, Abbotsford, Alliston, Ancaster, Antigonish, Barrie, Bathurst, Bow Island, Bridgewater, Brooks, Calgary, Camrose, Castlegar, Charlottetown, Collingwood, Corner Brook, Courtenay, Digby, Duncan, Edmonton, Foremost, Fredericton, Gander, Grand Falls, Grand Falls - Windsor, Halifax, Hamilton, Innisfail, Kamloops, Kelowna, Kentville, Kingston, Waterloo, Langley, Lethbridge, London, Markham, Marystown, Medicine Hat, Midland, Mississauga, Moncton, Nanaimo, Nelson, New Glasgow, New Liskeard, North Bay, North Vancouver, Oakville, Oyen, Penticton, Peterborough, Port Colborne, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Red Deer, Regina, Richmond, Saint John, Salmon Arm, Saskatoon, Smithers, Surrey, St. Catharines, St. John's, Summerside, Membertou, Terrace, Thornhill, Thunder Bay, Trail, Truro, Vancouver, Victoria, Weyburn, Whitby, Windsor, Winnipeg, Woodstock, Yarmouth
Parent: Member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd (independent member, not a subsidiary)
Led by: Devin Wagner, Partner, Transactions (National Transactions Leader)
People: Nearly 3,000 colleagues across 82 Canadian offices (firm-wide, 2026)

Doane Grant Thornton in brief

Doane Grant Thornton LLP is the Canadian member of Grant Thornton International. It renamed itself from Grant Thornton LLP on 2024-10-01, and its corporate finance arm became Doane Grant Thornton Corporate Finance Inc. at the same time. The firm has about 3,000 colleagues across 82 offices in nine provinces, from St. John's to Victoria; no Quebec offices are listed. Its national Transactions group, led by Devin Wagner, advises on M&A and divestitures, capital raising, transaction due diligence and valuations, mostly for private, often family- or Indigenous-owned businesses, many in Atlantic Canada, B.C. and Ontario. Its Transactions partners are spread across regional offices such as Calgary, Toronto, Waterloo and Kelowna.

Canadian offices: 82 offices across 9 provincesfirm-wide, all services
People: Nearly 3,000 colleagues across Canada

Groups

2 industry · 6 product & other

Doane Grant Thornton's Advisory services line houses a national Transactions group (M&A, capital advisory, transaction advisory services, valuations, CFIP) and a Restructuring and turnaround practice, staffed from regional offices across English Canada.

Industry coverage 2

Own the client relationships in a sector and bring the mandates in.

Corporate Finance and Infrastructure
National practice covering transactions, capital raising, valuations and fairness opinions for infrastructure, including public-private partnerships.
Toronto
Power & Utilities
M&A advisory to power and utility companies, such as Ontario local distribution company mergers.
Toronto

Product 6

Sit inside investment banking and work across the coverage teams rather than holding clients of their own. M&A is the one to understand: it does the modelling and execution on deals most coverage groups originate.

Mergers & Acquisitions
Sell-side and buy-side M&A and divestitures for private, often family- or Indigenous-owned, mid-market businesses, run by Transactions partners in regional offices under a Calgary-based national leader.
CalgaryHalifaxTorontoWaterlooKelowna
Capital Advisory
Independent advice on private debt and equity financing; the named contact leads the Atlantic transactions practice in Halifax.
Halifax
Transaction Advisory Services
Buy-side, lender and vendor due diligence, with a Toronto-based national lead who also leads private equity coverage.
Toronto
Valuations
Business valuations by chartered business valuators for transactions, reorganizations and disputes.
Toronto
Complex Financial Instrument Pricing
Valuation of complex financial instruments and capital structure advice within the Transactions group.
Restructuring and Turnaround
Corporate recovery, insolvency (CCAA, BIA, receiverships) and turnaround advice for companies and lenders, with a Toronto-based national leader.
TorontoVancouverCalgaryEdmontonHalifax

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People

4 profiles from official biographies and public reporting

Devin Wagner
Partner, Transactions; National Transactions and M&A Leader
Transactions, Advisory Services (Calgary)
Calgary-based Chartered Business Valuator who leads the firm's national Transactions and M&A practice and sits on its Partnership Board. He has been with the firm for more than 25 years. He advises on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, debt and equity financing, management buyouts and recapitalizations, and prepares valuation and fairness opinions, with a focus on energy, industrials, real estate and transportation.
- Doane Grant Thornton (formerly Grant Thornton LLP)Current
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Troy MacDonald
Partner, Transactions; National Practice Leader, Corporate Finance and Infrastructure
Transactions (Toronto)
Toronto partner who leads the national corporate finance and infrastructure practice, advising on M&A, capital raising, valuations and fairness opinions, including P3 and project financing in power and infrastructure. He moved to Toronto in 2008 from the firm's capital markets team in London, England, after earlier M&A work at a large Canadian energy company. He sits on the Partnership Board.
- Doane Grant Thornton (formerly Grant Thornton)2008–now
- Grant Thornton (London, England)until 2008
- Large Canadian energy company (unnamed)Current
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Kris Yungblut
Partner, Transactions
Transactions (Waterloo)
Joined in 2017 to build the corporate finance practice across Ontario, helping clients raise debt and equity and complete management buyouts, minority investments and full divestitures. Earlier he was a mid-market commercial banker at a large Canadian bank, VP Finance and Operations at an industrial distributor, and VP Corporate Development at a family office. He is a CPA, CMA and McMaster BCom.
- Doane Grant Thornton (formerly Grant Thornton)2017–now
- Family investment office (unnamed)until 2017
- Industrial distributor (unnamed)Current
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Simone Brunton
Partner, Transactions
Transactions (Kelowna)
Kelowna partner specializing in business valuation, M&A, due diligence and litigation support, and helping owners buy and sell businesses. She advised the Boyko family on Castle Cheese's 2026 partnership with Headwater Equity Partners. She was previously an auditor and business valuator at Deloitte in Toronto (2002–2007) and is a CPA and CBV.
- Doane Grant Thornton (formerly Grant Thornton)Current
- Deloitte (Toronto)2002–2007
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Recent deals

6 transactions captured

Oct 1, 2026
Invesque Inc.
Financial advisor to the special committee; MI 61-101 formal valuation and fairness opinion · Real Estate / Seniors Housing
Buyer Special purpose entity managed by Magnetar
Invesque agreed to a go-private transaction with a Magnetar-managed entity, its controlling shareholder, at US$0.101 per share in cash.
Undisclosed
Closed Sep 1, 2026
Genoa Design International
M&A advisor to Membertou First Nation (buyer) · Shipbuilding and defence (detail design and 3D modelling)
Buyer Membertou First Nation and Horizon Naval Engineering
Membertou, partnering with St. John's-based Horizon Naval Engineering, acquired the shipbuilding design firm. DGT prepared the initial analysis and EOI bid, supported due diligence and negotiations, and its tax team designed the structure; financing involved the First Nations Finance Authority.
Undisclosed
Closed Jun 1, 2026
Mobilease Rentals Inc.
Sell-side M&A advisor · Commercial equipment rental (office trailers, Southern Ontario)
Buyer Undisclosed buyer · Seller Owner of Mobilease Rentals
Structured sale process for a long-standing client after inbound buyer interest, with tax support.
Undisclosed
Closed Mar 1, 2026
Castle Cheese (West) Inc.
Sell-side M&A advisor to the Boyko family · Food manufacturing (Lumby, B.C.)
Buyer Headwater Equity Partners · Seller Boyko family
Second-generation family-owned cheese producer partnered with a private equity firm to fund growth.
Undisclosed
Closed Nov 1, 2025
Discovery Foods Limited
Buy-side M&A advisor to Mid Island Co-op · Grocery and food retail (Vancouver Island)
Buyer Mid Island Co-op
DGT sourced acquisition targets for the Nanaimo-based co-op, then supported negotiations and due diligence on the two-store grocer.
Undisclosed
Closed Feb 1, 2025
McMillan-McGee Corp (Mc2)
Sell-side M&A advisor · Environmental technology (thermal remediation, Calgary)
Buyer GEF Capital Partners · Seller Founding owners (rolled equity)
Calgary environmental remediation technology company partnered with a climate-focused private equity investor; the owners kept an equity stake.
Undisclosed

Based on publicly disclosed transactions captured by BSO; many deal values are not disclosed. Not a league table: coverage is not exhaustive and should not be read as a ranking.

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