Private Equity and Venture Capital

We value the close relationships we develop with our clients, and consistently work to understand not only their structures, but their cultures as well. Combined with our deep expertise, these relationships have made us trusted advisors to many prominent Canadian and foreign private equity sponsors and pension funds, in connection with their direct portfolio company investments.  

The extensive activities of our sophisticated investor client base provides us with considerable visibility into the structures and terms of a wide variety of real estate, private equity and other investment funds, further strengthening our understanding of the market. 

We stay at the nexus of Canada’s venture capital community. Goodmans acts as “legal counsel in residence” to the DMZ at Toronto Metropolitan University, one of Canada’s largest business incubators for emerging tech startups, and to IDEABoost, an initiative of the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, building the next generation of technology-based media entertainment products, services and brands. 

Through these partnerships, we extend advice, mentorship, and networking connections to emerging companies and the investors we track, and we have successfully linked growth companies to investment capital on numerous occasions.