Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No.5) Core Fund (“Starlight”) has completed its consolidation of the assets of the existing Starlight U.S. Multi-Family Core Funds and Campar Capital Corporation (“Campar”) into Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No. 5) Core Fund by way of a previously announced plan of arrangement.
Origin Merchant Partners acted as Financial Advisor to Starlight U.S. Multi-Family Core Fund, Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No.2) Core Fund, Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No.3) Core Fund, and Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No.4) Core Fund with respect to this transaction.
Starlight U.S. Multi-Family (No.5) Core Fund is a limited partnership focused on acquiring, owning and operating a portfolio of diversified income producing rental properties in the U.S. multi-family real estate market.
Origin Senior Lead: Charles Pennock
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Yorkshire Valley Farms has completed its acquisition of Farm Fresh Poultry Co-operative Inc.
Origin Merchant Partners acted as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Yorkshire Valley Farms with respect to this transaction. Yorkshire Valley Farms (“Yorkshire Valley”) is a leading Ontario-based organic chicken, eggs and turkey producer, supplying product under the Yorkshire Valley Farms brand name to customers all across Canada.
Farm Fresh Poultry Co-operative Inc. (“Farm Fresh”) is a farm-owned primary processor of air chilled chicken products based in Harriston, Ontario serving customers in the foodservice and retail poultry markets.
Post-acquisition of Farm Fresh, Yorkshire Valley will be a leading integrated producer of conventional and organic chicken along with organic egg and turkey products.
Origin Senior Leads:Â Andrew Muirhead, Charles Pennock
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that PriceMetrix Inc. (“PriceMetrix”) has completed its strategic sale to McKinsey & Company (“McKinsey”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to PriceMetrix with respect to this transaction.
PriceMetrix Inc. is a leading practice management software for North American wealth managers that was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Their solutions use analytics and industry benchmarking to help advisors and their firms better serve their clients and grow their businesses. PriceMetrix directly measures aggregated data representing seven million retail investors, 500 million transactions, and $3.5 trillion in investment assets. PriceMetrix combines its patented process for collecting and classifying data, with proprietary measures of revenue, assets, and households to create the largest and most insightful retail wealth management dataset available today.
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, deeply committed to helping institutions in the private, public, and social sectors achieve lasting success. McKinsey & Company has consultants in more than 110 locations in over 60 countries, across industries and functions.
Origin Senior Leads:Â Jim Osler, Mario Di Pietro
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Continental Ingredients Canada Inc. (“CIC”) has completed its sale to Quadra Chemicals Ltd. (“Quadra”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to CIC with respect to this transaction.
Continental Ingredients Canada Inc. is a leading independent provider of food ingredient solutions, specializing in the design and application of functional ingredient systems that impart the desired body and texture characteristics, shelf life stability, and flavour to processed foods, beverage and dairy products.
Quadra Chemicals Ltd. is a Canadian distributor of both nutritional and functional specialty and commodity chemicals. Quadra has grown to be Canada’s third largest chemical and ingredient distributor and the seventh largest in North America.
Origin Senior Leads: Jim Osler, Andrew Muirhead
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that CB Gold Inc. (“CB Gold”) has completed its acquisition of 100% of the Santa Ana Silver Project from Condor Precious Metals Inc. Santa Ana covers the core of the historic Mariquita Silver District, one of Colombia’s most prolific colonial silver mining camps with production dating back to the sixteenth century.
Origin Merchant Partners identified the target acquisition for CB Gold with respect to this transaction.
CB Gold Inc. (“CB Gold”) is a well-financed precious metals exploration and development corporation majority owned by near term producer Red Eagle Mining Corporation. CB Gold has an experienced exploration and mine development team focused on building shareholder value through acquiring and developing high grade gold and silver projects with low costs and low technical risks in Colombia, a jurisdiction with prolific historic production but until recently limited modern exploration. CB Gold owns 100% of both the Vetas Gold Project and the Santa Ana Silver Project, which consist of numerous historic and existing mines and where exploration is currently underway to delineate high-grade vein resources exploitable by modern underground mining methods.
Origin Senior Lead: Jim MelocheÂ
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. is pleased to announce Carpathian Gold Inc. (“Carpathian) has agreed to a private placement of ten million dollars (CAD$10,000,000) from Forbes & Manhattan Resources Inc. (“F&M”). The net proceeds will be used to advance Carpathian’s Rovina Valley Gold Project in Romania.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. acted as financial advisor to Carpathian with respect to this transaction.
Carpathian Gold Inc. (CSE: CPN) is an exploration and development company whose primary asset is the Rovina Valley Au-Cu Project located in Romania.
Forbes & Manhattan is a private merchant bank with a global focus on the resource-based sectors. F&M is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with offices, operations and assets across the globe.
Origin Senior Lead: Jim MelocheÂ
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Primus Telecommunications (“Primus”) has completed its strategic sale and investment solicitation process resulting in the pending sale of Primus to Birch Communications, Inc. (“Birch”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Primus with respect to this transaction.
Primus Telecommunications is one of Canada’s largest independent telecommunications service providers, serving over 250,000 residential and business customers on a national network. The company’s services include internet, voice over internet protocol, local phone, wireless, long distance and prepaid calling cards. Primus was founded in 1997 and has over 500 employees located in offices across Canada including Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, London and Edmundston.
Birch Communications, Inc. is a leading technology service provider of IP-based communications, network broadband, cloud computing, and information technology to small, mid-sized, enterprise and wholesale businesses. The company`s services footprint spans 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., Canada and Puerto Rico. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Birch has over 1,400 employees across the U.S.A.
Origin Senior Leads:Â Jim Osler, Andrew MuirheadÂ
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Brio Gold Inc. (“Brio”) has entered in an Assignment and Assumption Agreement and a Restructuring Agreement with Macquarie Bank Limited (“Macquarie”) whereby Brio will acquire all of Macquarie’s interest in Carpathian Gold Inc. (“Carpathian”) including the Mineracao Riacho dos Machados Ltda. Gold project in Minas Gerais in Brazil. This transaction is expected to close on or about March 31, 2016.
Origin Merchant Partners acted as financial advisor to Carpathian with respect to this transaction.
Carpathian Gold Inc. (CSE: CPN) is an exploration and development company whose primary business is gold production at its Riacho dos Machados Gold Project in Brazil. It is also focussed on advancing its exploration and development plans on its Rovina Valley Au-Cu Project located in Romania.
Brio Gold Inc., a subsidiary of Yamana Gold, was formed in December 2014 to hold Fazenda Brasileiro, Pilar and C1 Santa Luz as well as some related exploration concessions, all of which were held as non-core assets within Yamana Gold.
Origin Senior Lead: Jim MelocheÂ
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that OneMove Technologies Inc. (“OneMove”) has acquired Dye & Durham Corporation (“Dye & Durham”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to OneMove with respect to this transaction.
OneMove Technologies Inc. is the leading provider of web-based real estate transaction platforms and the creator of the largest and fastest growing online community of conveyancing professionals. Through econveyance™, its proprietary web-based conveyancing software solution, OneMove™ simplifies and expedites the process of buying and selling real estate. econveyance™ connects all participants in the property transfer process, offering a secure and efficient means of completing the transaction online.
Dye & Durham Corporation is a leading supplier of worldwide registry and legal support services in Canada. Founded in 1874 and employing over 150 people, Dye & Durham is one of British Columbia’s most historic employers and principal electronic filers. A proud founding member of the British Columbia Association of Professional Registry Agents (BCAPRA), Dye & Durham operates out of five offices located in New Westminster, Vancouver, Victoria, Prince George and Abbotsford.
Origin Senior Leads: Andrew Muirhead, Mario Di PietroÂ
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. is pleased to announce that Widewaters Group (“Widewaters”) has completed a private placement of mezzanine debt for gross proceeds of USD $52,600,000. Net proceeds will be used for the development of a 299 room Hilton Curio hotel to be constructed at 218 SW Jefferson St. in downtown Portland, Oregon.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. acted as financial advisor to Widewaters with respect to this transaction.
Widewaters Group is a vertically integrated real estate organization with over 30 years of development, construction, management and investment experience. Widewaters continues to develop and acquire quality real estate across North America. Widewaters has developed or acquired over 11.3 million square feet of retail, office, residential and hospitality projects including 27 hotels totaling more than 3,600 rooms in eleven US states and two Canadian Provinces. Widewaters is based in Syracuse, New York.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. (“OMSI”) is a wholly-owned affiliate of Origin Merchant Partners. OMSI is an exempt market dealer that will agent private placements of debt and equity securities to finance the acquisition capital, growth capital or recapitalization needs of our clients. OMSI is registered as an Exempt Market Dealer with the Ontario Securities Commission.
Origin Senior Lead:Â Glenn Shyba
Origin Merchant Partners (“Origin”) is pleased to announce that it has been selected to facilitate the sale of the Royal Canadian Mint’s MintChip™ digital currency product.
The Royal Canadian Mint (the “RCM”) is the Crown Corporation responsible for the minting and distribution of Canada’s circulation coins. The RCM is recognized as one of the largest and most versatile mints in the world, offering a wide range of specialized, high quality coinage products and related services on an international scale. For more information about the RCM, visit www.mint.ca.
nanoPay is an early stage Fintech company based in Toronto that provides loyalty and payments solutions for retail and ecommerce merchants. nanoPay combines customer identity, loyalty and payment information into single-use transaction tokens that make payments frictionless®. Merchants are able to leverage customer data into insight and engage customers with content and offers relevant to them. For more information about nanoPay, visit http://www.nanopay.net.
MintChip™ (“MintChip”) was created to be the first regulator-friendly digital cash platform. MintChip was designed to support compliance of regulatory standards including anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) rules. MintChip is a digital replacement for cash linked to a country’s fiat currency and uses secure asset stores to move funds between parties without an intermediary and can process transactions both online and offline. For more information about MintChip, visit http://gomintchip.com/
Origin Senior Lead:Â Jim Osler
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that The Society of Energy Professionals (“The Society”) has completed its acquisition of shares of Hydro One Limited (“Hydro One”) and the related arrangement and structuring of financing for an aggregate investment of approximately $39 million.
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to The Society with respect to this transaction.
The Society of Energy Professionals represents more than 8,000 professional employees in the electricity industry in Ontario, including engineers, scientists, supervisors and finance specialists. Formed in 1948, The Society advocates for long-term, evidence-based planning and decision-making in the energy sector. The Society is Local 160 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, based in Washington, D.C. with 80,000 members in the U.S. and Canada.
Hydro One Limited is Ontario’s largest electrical transmission and distribution utility with approximately $23 billion in assets and 2014 revenues of over $6 billion. Hydro One’s regulated transmission and distribution operations are owned by Hydro One Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Hydro One Inc. owns and operates Ontario’s approximately 29,000 km high-voltage transmission network and an approximately 122,000 circuit km primary low-voltage distribution network.
Origin Senior Leads: Andrew Muirhead, Jim Osler
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that The Scoular Company (“Scoular”) has completed its acquisition of the Special Crops Division of Legumex Walker Inc. (“Legumex”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Scoular with respect to this transaction.
The Scoular Company is a 123-year old company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Scoular operates 130 independent business units that provide diverse supply chain solutions for end-users and suppliers of grain, feed ingredients, and food ingredients around the globe. From more than 90 offices and facilities, more than 850 employees are engaged in the business of buying, selling, storing, and handling grain and ingredients as well as managing transportation and logistics worldwide.
Legumex Walker Inc. is a processor and merchandiser of pulses, other special crops, and canola products. Legumex derives its revenue from sourcing, processing, marketing and distributing special crops, canola and associated food products to a global client base in over 80 countries. Legumex has operations in Canada, in the U.S., and in China. Legumex’s Special Crops Division, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is one of the largest processors of pulses and other special crops in Canada with an annual processing capacity of approximately 522,000 tonnes.
Origin Senior Leads: Andrew Muirhead, Rob Penteliuk
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. is pleased to announce that Jaguar Mining Inc. (“Jaguar”) has successfully completed its US$21.5 million convertible debenture private placement.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. acted as Advisor to Jaguar with respect to this transaction.
Jaguar Mining Inc. is a gold producer with mining operations in a prolific greenstone belt in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Additionally, Jaguar wholly owns the large-scale Gurupi Development Project in Brazil. In total, the Corporation owns mineral claims covering an area of approximately 197,000 hectares in Brazil.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. (“OMSI”) is a wholly-owned affiliate of Origin Merchant Partners. OMSI is an exempt market dealer that will agent private placements of debt and equity securities to finance the acquisition capital, growth capital or recapitalization needs of our clients. OMSI is registered as an Exempt Market Dealer with the Ontario Securities Commission.
Origin Senior Lead:Â Jim Meloche
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. (“OMSI”) is pleased to announce that AdvisorStream Ltd. (“AdvisorStream”) has successfully completed its equity offering of Class B Preferred Shares.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. acted as exclusive Agent to AdvisorStream with respect to this transaction.
AdvisorStream Ltd. is the only end-to-end solution which empowers Investment Advisors and other sales people to increase their business by providing them with a unique client communications solution providing client news, communications, and lead capture services. AdvisorStream allows professionals to co-brand themselves with the most credible news content through exclusive licensing agreements with the world’s leading publishers.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. is a wholly-owned affiliate of Origin Merchant Partners. OMSI is an exempt market dealer that will agent private placements of debt and equity securities to finance the acquisition capital, growth capital or recapitalization needs of our clients. OMSI is registered as an Exempt Market Dealer with the Ontario Securities Commission.
Origin Senior Leads: Mario Di Pietro, Rob Penteliuk
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Information Services Corporation (“ISC”) has acquired ESC Corporate Services Ltd. (“ESC”) in a transaction valued at approximately C$28 million.
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to ISC with respect to this transaction.
Information Services Corporation is the exclusive provider of Land Titles Registry, Land Surveys Directory, Personal Property Registry and Corporate Registry in Saskatchewan. ISC is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX-ISV).
ESC Corporate Services Ltd. is a privately-held corporation providing full-service, bilingual, online corporate services including due diligence, filing and incorporation services across Canada and around the world. ESC was founded in 2009 with offices in Toronto and Montreal and has over 4,500 clients, including law firms, corporations and financial institutions.
Origin Senior Leads:Â Andrew Muirhead, Mario Di Pietro
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that it is providing development management services for a new community retail centre in Oakville (“The Shops of Oakville South”). Longo’s will be a featured retailer along with other national tenants. This transaction is valued at approximately $40 million. Origin Merchant Partners is acting as Development Manager with respect to this new retail development.
The Shops of Oakville South is set in a desirable suburban area in south Oakville that represents an outstanding retail opportunity for both today and tomorrow. With a large amount of future residential construction planned, The Shops of Oakville South is keenly positioned to serve the well-educated and established families in the community.
Origin Senior Lead:Â Glenn Shyba
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Information Services Corporation (“ISC”) has agreed to acquire 30% of the issued and outstanding voting common shares of OneMove Technologies Inc. (“OneMove”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to ISC with respect to this transaction.
Information Services Corporation is the exclusive provider and the Land Titles Registry, Land Surveys Directory, Personal Property Registry and Corporate Registry in Saskatchewan, which are key supporters of economic activity in the province.
OneMove Technologies Inc. offers a leading real estate transaction platform. Through the consolidation of data, OneMove’s proprietary web-based conveyancing software solution, econveyance, facilitates efficient and secure communication between all parties involved in the process of buying and selling real estate in British Columbia.
Origin Senior Leads:Â Andrew Muirhead, Mario Di Pietro
Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that Orderit.ca (“Orderit”) has completed its sale to JUST EAT Canada (“JUST EAT”).
Origin Merchant Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to Orderit with respect to this transaction.
Orderit.ca is a leading provider of delivery and take-out services for over 1,000 Canadian restaurants. Orderit provides a convenient and secure platform to improve the food ordering and delivery experience for restaurants and customers across Canada.
JUST EAT plc operates the world’s leading online marketplace for takeaway delivery. Headquartered in London, JUST EAT uses proprietary technology to offer a quick and efficient online ordering service for over 8 million users and over 45,700 takeaway restaurants. JUST EAT is a member of the FTSE 250 Index.
Origin Senior Lead: Mario Di Pietro
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. is pleased to announce that Berkeley Payment Solutions (“Berkeley”) has successfully completed its Senior Secured Debenture Offering.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. acted as Agent to Berkeley with respect to this transaction.
Berkeley Payment Solutions (“Berkeley”) delivers MasterCard and Visa prepaid card programs for corporations, governments, and financial institutions. As a trusted managed services provider, Berkeley helps clients navigate the payments industry ecosystem and offers an extensive suite of services including program management, product development, accounting and reporting, IT consulting and integration, processing, card design, and card fulfillment. Berkeley also partners with leading financial institutions to accelerate revenue growth opportunities and profitability by reducing the cost, complexity, and risk of developing and launching new payments products. Berkeley serves over 500 corporate and government clients in North America spanning all industries and business functions, providing a variety of prepaid Visa and MasterCard solutions that are simple, flexible, and effective.
Origin Merchant Securities Inc. (“OMSI”) is a wholly-owned affiliate of Origin Merchant Partners. OMSI is an exempt market dealer that will agent private placements of debt and equity securities to finance the acquisition capital, growth capital or recapitalization needs of our clients. OMSI is registered as an Exempt Market Dealer with the Ontario Securities Commission.
Origin Senior Leads: Mario Di Pietro, Jim Osler
