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September 5, 2017

Seven years after his first company went south, Toronto accountant Brad Nathan is the owner and founder of a private-equity firm specializing in small businesses whose owners are retiring. When Brad Nathan founded his company as a young accountant, his very first deal went south and he lost everything he owned overnight. He had left his role as a vice-president at Rothschild Canada Ltd. in Toronto to set up a business doing what he loves — making people money — and he wasn’t about to disappoint his investors or employees. It took seven years to dig himself out before Nathan […]

June 22, 2017

Toronto, ON / Seattle, WA – June 22, 2017 – Lynx Equity is pleased to announce the acquisition of Seattle-based G&W Commercial Interiors, a provider of commercial flooring and related services across the Pacific Northwest. For the past seventeen years, G&W has provided best in class service to its customers by maintaining a roster of approximately seventy in-house installers. Distinguished from its competitors, G&W trains and equips its team with the skills required to complete even the most detailed and specialized jobs. This gives G&W the ability to guarantee its clients the highest level of quality and workmanship coupled with speedy […]

April 21, 2017

Brexit uncertainty and the weak pound have created the “ideal time” to buy UK businesses according to Lynx Equity vice president Mathew Burpee. The firm has just made its second UK deal by backing specialist printer Label Express, two months after it picked up London-based kitchen and bathroom products warehousing and distribution business Signalhome. Lynx vice president Mathew Burpee said, “We believe the current risks and challenges in the UK market present an ideal time to be a buyer. “By using our US funds to buy in the UK we are taking advantage of the strong US dollar and historically weak UK pound, […]

April 13, 2017

Toronto, ON / London, UK – April 13, 2017 – Lynx Equity is excited to announce its second acquisition of 2017, Croydon, UK’s Label Express. For over thirty years, Label Express has been an industry-leading provider of express labeling services to a wide variety of underserved niche industries. The company’s strong customer service and sales team have driven consistent growth over the past several years. This, coupled with their highly process-oriented operations, including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 accreditations and the British Retail Packing Accreditation, made them an ideal acquisition for Lynx Equity. “We can’t think of a better group with […]