Alma Johns

Careful planning helps prevent extenuating circumstances and personal events that force you to sell.

A disciplined approach is needed when responding to purchase inquiries to help you protect your businesses without undermining potentially lucrative future opportunities.

Developing a basic understanding of M&A helps owners dramatically improve their outcomes when they inevitably undertake a transaction in the future.

Before COVID-19 swept across the globe, numerous North American manufacturers either were pursuing a sale transaction or preparing to go to market. The pandemic, unfortunately, brought an abrupt halt to dealmaking.

Understanding what avenues are available helps owners decide which one provides the best fit for the business, beyond the standard deal terms and pricing.

After almost two years of political fanfare orchestrated by the Canadian federal government, the much-awaited Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) finally announced its first ever investment this summer. CIB will be spending $1.28 billion on a major expansion of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM)...

While the construction industry in general will benefit from the government's infrastructure plan, our metalworking industry in particular can exploit opportunities from this initiative too. The government’s $180 billion investment is a staggering amount. If a company’s products and services fit into the public infrastructure supply chain, it needs to successfully align its business strategies with this initiative.

Companies will continuously face challenges because of changing business environments. And situations will gradually become very difficult for management teams who keep themselves complacent and remain comfortable with legacy systems and processes. An...

As a continuation of our previous article, the sheer complexity and extensiveness of this topic makes it challenging to explain and it’s best to narrow it down to financial restructuring only for otherwise viable businesses. Here we will focus on capital structure—commonly made up of...