Chris has nearly 15 years of transaction and advisory experience spanning a number of industry verticals. Key focus areas include Agriculture, Commodity Transportation & Logistics and Food & Beverage.
Notable recent experience spans purchase and sale assignments, restructuring, valuation and special committee engagements. Select transaction list includes:
- Advising Kitchen Partners on its sale to E2P’s portfolio company Roskam Foods
- Advising Buhler Industries on its sale to Asko Holding
- Advising Centricity Research on its sale to Trinity Hunt Partners
- Advising G3 on the divestiture of its shortline railway assets to Regional Rail
- Advising Velocity Trade on its significant investment from Wedbush Financial Services
- Advising Zen-Noh Grain on the divestiture of 10 US grain handling facilities to Viserion Grain
- Advising LifeSpeak on its $42 million equity investment
- Advising Economical Insurance on its demutualization
- Advising Gardiner Dam Terminal on its sale to Viterra
- Advising Kraft Heinz on its acquisition of Ethical Bean Coffee
- Advising River Cree Resort and Casino on the refinancing and restructuring of its capital structure
Prior to joining Origin in March 2017, Chris was a Vice President within the M&A team at Deloitte Corporate Finance where he executed mid-market M&A transactions. Chris holds a CPA, CA designation and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from Queen’s University.
