Everything to prepare for a Fort Capital interview: why the firm, and the questions candidates there reported being asked.
From the inside
Reasons that work in interviews
5 reasons for Fort Capital
The spread of mandates is the firm's real argument and its own website buries it: in 2026 alone Fort advised Aurora Cannabis against a hostile bid, advised Luca Mining on a US$385M mine purchase, gave Orla's special committee a fairness opinion on an US$18.5B merger, and ran sell-sides for private owners in the $10M-$50M range. Pick two from opposite ends of that and ask how the same bench covers both.
The lower-mid-market work used to run under a separate brand, Relay Transition Partners, and the firm folded it back in rather than tell an owner their business belonged with the B team. Worth knowing before you ask about deal sizes: there is one standard here, not two.
Around sixty professionals across Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary, so a junior is on the deal rather than on one workstream of it.
Credit advisory, valuations and fairness opinions sit beside M&A, so the technical range is wider than a sell-side-only shop this size.
A certified B Corporation, which is rare for a Canadian dealer and worth a sentence only if it is something you actually care about.
Firm-specific questions
Why Fort Capital over Canaccord Genuity or Desjardins Capital Markets?
Anchor your answer in what sets it apart: partnership of bankers who left large banks, founded 2014; western canadian mid-market and mining m&a; fairness opinions and formal valuations for boards; dedicated wealth and asset management m&a practice.
Walk me through a recent deal Fort Capital worked on.
For example Cozamin Mine (financial advisor to luca mining (buy-side), Sep 21, 2026). Cover the rationale, valuation and what the firm did.
6 more Fort Capital-specific questions, each with what to cover and the sources behind it.
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