September 2020: Origin Merchant Partners Advises Yorkville Education Company on its Investment by Birch Hill Equity Partners

September 2020: Origin Merchant Partners Advises Yorkville Education Company on its Investment by Birch Hill Equity Partners

By Tracey Lamping's

All Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions

September 3, 2020

Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Birch Hill Equity Partners has made an investment in Yorkville Education Company (“Yorkville”). Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Yorkville with respect to this transaction.

Yorkville Education Company, is the parent company of Yorkville University and Toronto Film School. Yorkville University is a private for-profit university established in 2003 in New Brunswick, providing a variety of career-focused degree programs to students across Canada. Toronto Film School is a for-profit post-secondary institution based in Toronto, Ontario. The school offers creative diploma programs in the areas of film, entertainment, fashion, design, and video games.

Birch Hill Equity Partners is a Toronto-based mid-market private equity firm with a 25-year history of driving growth in their portfolio companies and delivering returns to investors

Origin Senior Leads: Jim Osler, Jim Meloche