Groupe Solmax, a Canadian-based company and an industry leader in the production of high-quality polyethylene geomembranes for industrial and environmental applications has acquired GSE Environmental based in Houston, Texas from Littlejohn & Co., LLC and certain funds and accounts managed by Strategic Value Partners, LLC, both Greenwich, Connecticut-based private investment firms.

Caisse de depôt et placement du Québec (la Caisse) announced today a $2.5 million equity investment, through the Fonds Espace CDPQ, in Québec’s Glutenberg Holding Co., a producer and distributor of craft beers and spirits.

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ( “la Caisse”) announced today an investment in Innocap Investment Management Inc. (“Innocap”), a Montréal-based firm offering managed account solutions. The investment is made through the purchase of share capital and the issuance of a loan.

Hyperion Insurance Group today announced that Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the long-term institutional investor, has agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in the Group.

CDPQ Infra, a subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, announced today its decision to keep its tender process for the Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM) open and launch a period of intensive discussions with the qualified consortiums for the engineering and construction contract. 

Global leadership in artificial intelligence, recognition of an expanding pool of top talent and bold ideas, combined with a strong geopolitical outlook, indicate that the moment is ripe for Canada to take its place as a tech leader on the international stage. Building on this momentum and coinciding with the tenth anniversary of Real Ventures’ first $3 million seed fund in 2007, the country’s leading early-stage venture capital firm has raised two new pools of capital totalling $180 million to broaden and deepen support for the most promising Canadian tech startups and entrepreneurial ecosystems. This brings Real’s total funds under management to over $330 million.

On Monday, Ivanhoé Cambridge and the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (Manulife) celebrated the official opening of Maison Manuvie, a class-AAA office building at 900 de Maisonneuve Ouest in the heart of downtown Montréal.

Peel Logistics Property and Ivanhoé Cambridge are pleased to announce the establishment of the Peel Logistics Property UK Logistics Venture (UKLV). 

Initiating a new chapter in the “Projet Nouveau-Centre,” its plan for downtown Montreal, Ivanhoé Cambridge announces today an investment of $200 million to revitalize the Esplanade and renew the commercial offering at Place Ville Marie.

Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat, took part in a panel at the launch of a World Bank report on the evolution of the Canadian pension model.