Welcome to Spara Capital’s Fall/Winter Update Newsletter. Inside you’ll find all the Spara news that’s fit to print; keeping you updated on our latest transaction news and information from Spara Capital and the marketplace. CEO’s Message Happy Holidays to All! We’re almost at the “2 minute mark” of the fourth quarter and at Spara we’re inside the red…
When Canadian power and energy specialist; Spark Power and its sister company, infrastructure services investment bank; Spara Capital, set out to create a networking event for the energy and power industry they wanted to do something a little different. “At Spara Capital, we founded a quarterly hockey game that pitted financial service firms from Bay…
Spara Capital was the exclusive advisor for the follow-on acquisition of UTS Consultants Inc. by Oakville Hydro Corporation (OHC), in pursuit of its construction and related services growth strategy. Founded in 1992, UTS Consultants operates out of Fergus and North Bay, Ontario and is a leading provider of engineering services to municipalities, telecommunications and power…
We are pleased to announce the closing of the acquisition of Rondar Inc. (“Rondar”), by Spark Power Services Corp (“Spark”), a leading provider of technical operations and maintenance services for high voltage and renewable energy assets. Spark Power Services is a portfolio company of Spara Capital Partners. Established in 1970, Rondar is a wholly owned,…
The Spara Capital team joined with members of its portfolio companies; Spark Power (comprised of team members from Spark Solar, AGRIS Solar and Northwind Solutions) recently, in a unique and fun approach to corporate social responsibility they’ve affectionately called “volun-teaming”. For the past four years, Spara Capital Partners and Spark Power Corp have supported Unity…
On the back of Burger King’s recently announced plans to acquire Tim Horton’s Jason Sparaga, President of Spara Capital was featured in the Financial Post’s Leadership section in an article entitled What executives need to know about winning ‘roll ups’.
Canadian executives are thinking “roll up to win”, says a recent study prepared by a Canadian accounting firm, but in this case it is less about donut house coffee promos and all about ‘strategic acquisition’ (i.e. consolidations or ‘roll ups’ when done in serial). The Grant Thornton study released earlier this month found that some…
Inside you’ll find all the Spara news that’s fit to print; keeping you updated on the latest transaction news and information from Spara and the marketplace. President’s Message Happy Spring/Summer to All! It has been a busy past few months here at Spara Capital Partners, both in the advisory practice and in our portfolio ‘fleet’…
Spara Capital is pleased to announce the completion of Phase II of a Founding Member’s longterm succession plan for FerPal Construction. FerPal is a water main rehabilitation company located in Eastern Ontario. Spara Capital arranged funding through BMO, structured the deal and provided advisory services throughout the process.
Gerald Turner, Chairman of M&A Worldwide announced the selection of Canadian mid-market M&A firm, Spara Capital as the organization’s exclusive Canadian partner at the organization’s recent convention in Bordeaux, France.