Growth is often essential to business success. While growing a business organically can be difficult on its own, expanding a business through acquisition gives rise to many unique risks and and challenges that business leaders must address in order to be successful.

Acquisitions for Growth, sponsored by Gowlings, is part of the TSX Ignite: Essentials for Great Canadian Companies series. TSX Ignite is a program dedicated to the growth and development of Canadian companies, and this presentation addresses some of the key questions to consider in pursuing a growth strategy through acquisitions.

In this presentation, Gowlings partner W. Ian Palm, together with our guest panelists Jim Nikopoulos, Vice President & General Counsel of Element Financial Corporation, Jim Logan, Vice President at CIBC Commercial Banking, Sachin Mahajan, Managing Director, Merger & Acquisitions at Canaccord Genuity Corp. and Lisa Melchior, Senior Managing Director with OMERS Private Equity, provide their insights for business leaders looking at potential acquisition transactions, including: 

  • Key considerations for business owners looking at a potential sale transaction to a larger organization
  • Best practices that acquirers employ for successful acquisitions
  • Financing an acquisition – working efficiently with lenders
  • Techniques for bridging a valuation gap
  • Identifying what drives a potential purchasers
  • Alternative strategies for funding an acquisition
  • Identifying and managing significant risks in potential acquisitions
  • Managing multiple stakeholders and potential conflicts of interest
  • Strategies for successful post acquition integration

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