TORONTO - When Lola Adeyemi started a company making chickpea stews and roasted carrot soups like the ones she grew up eating in Africa, she was expecti.
Private Debt Partners Appoints Six New Members to Advisory Board
News provided by
Share this article
Share this article
TORONTO and MONTREAL, Jan. 27, 2021 /CNW/ - Private Debt Partners ( PDP or the Company ) is pleased to announce the nominations of Mr. Mario Charpentier, Mr. Daniel Gallivan, Mr. Paul Hill, Mr. Richard Kanemy, Ms. Kristi Miller and Dr. Par Nijhawan, to its Advisory Board. The newly appointed Advisory Board members bring diverse finance, banking, legal, operational, governance and leadership experience that will complement and enhance PDP s core competencies as the Company deploys its Senior Direct Lending Fund and its Senior Opportunities Fund, which are focused on lending capital to high-quality Canadian mid-market businesses.
Working Opportunity Fund Announces Letter of Intent
December 21, 2020 19:29 ET | Source: Working Opportunity Fund (EVCC) Ltd. Working Opportunity Fund (EVCC) Ltd. Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Working Opportunity Fund (EVCC) Ltd. (“WOF” or the “Fund”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with a third party for the acquisition (the “Transaction”) of all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Fund. Under the LOI, Venture Series shareholders would receive a cash payment at a discount to Net Asset Value (“NAV”) at close of the Transaction or they may instead elect to maintain their pro rata participating position in the Venture Series portfolio at full NAV at close of the Transaction. Other key terms for those Venture Series shareholders electing continued participation in the Venture Series
Article content
A Calgary tech company created by two of the co-founders of Skip the Dishes has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round.
The funding raise, one of the largest in Western Canada, was announced Wednesday by Neo Financial, a financial technology company created in 2019 by Andrew Chau and Jeff Adamson (co-founders of food delivery giant Skip the Dishes, which was sold for $200 million in 2016) as well as Kris Read. Headquartered in Calgary with its office in the East Village, Neo Financial has grown its team to 130 employees in the past year and has 70 open job postings for both Calgary and the company’s secondary office in Winnipeg right now.