News

2020

• Opening of our Calgary office, with Managing Partner Brian Petersen at the helm.
• Additions to our Toronto team, welcome to Martin Hubbes and Derek Webb!
• Fort Capital announces Chief Operating Officer, Morna Sileika.
• Fort Capital announces recent team promotions. Congratulations to Steve Bone, Aleem Jinnah and Raman Karatchenia!
• Covid Policy: Our offices are open, please see our google listing for hours. Those visiting the office will be asked to adhere to our Covid Policy, wash their hands upon entry, note that we have occupancy limits in all areas, and have masks available for use.    
• Ali Pejman joined the board as Chair of Network Entertainment.
• FWE Gala – Fort Capital was honoured to be the Twilight sponsor for the Gala this year.
• Partner Paul Austin was a panelist at the Vancouver Enterprise Forum.
• Client Oliver Lang participated as a panelist in the San Francisco Cleantech Forum where Fort Capital held it’s annual investor dinner bringing together funders and entrepreneurs.

2019

• With kids (and management teams) now safely back to school, we are excited to share updates about our team at Fort Capital. We are now a tribe of over 20 finance professionals focused on providing clients personalized, hands-on execution of M&A advisory and capital formation assignments. Fort Fall 2019 Newsletter

• Fort Capital was at the Howe Street Special Olympics and came away from the event with the overall win! Congratulations team Fort!
• Fort Capital held it’s first Lawn Bowling Tournament this summer, at the Stanley Park Lawn bowling Club, thanks to all our guests for making this a memorable event.
• Fort Capital enjoyed an afternoon as the Beverage Cart sponsor at Newmont Goldcorp’s Golf Invitational in support of the Special Olympics
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• Corvus Energy acquired Grenland Energy
• Corvus Energy is building a new production facility in Norway.
• ACG BC Middle Market Growth Conference.
  • Fort Capital was a sponsor and our Associate, Aleem Jinnah co-chaired this year’s event.
  • Partner Paul Austin moderated the panel on “What will it take to reach BC’s cleantech potential? Four diverse perspectives”
• Spud has their biggest day ever in their new facility
• Fort Capital and Fasken‘s hosted an intimate dinner for clean tech innovators, CEO’s, Venture Capitalists and other funders as part of the Globe Series Capital Exchange and Globe Series conference in Toronto.
• Congratulations to Sonia Strobel of Skipper Otto on her win at “Pitch for the Purse”!
• Ali Pejman is judging FWE Semi-Finals for the “Pitch for the Purse” this week, as they prepare for the main event, their Gala night Feb 21^st, 2019.
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• 2018
• November – Ali Pejman is participating in the Creative Destruction Lab event in Vancouver at UBC.
• November – Dave Bustos is on the panel at Business Transitions Forum.
• Fort Capital Partners enjoyed their evening at the Fraser Institute’s dinner celebrating Gordon Diamond
• Our junior staff raised $1,000 for Athletics for Kids
• Our Team Fort helped raise over $320,000 for Power to Be, participating in their Power to Play event in Stanley Park.
• Fort Capital supports “Up the Down Market”.
• August 3rd, 2018 – Fort Capital competes in Howe / West Georgia Street Olympics

• Congratulations to Spud as they open their new warehouse facility in Burnaby, as noted in BIV.
• Fort Capital enjoyed the Golf for Kidsafe event, which raises money for Kidsafe Project:
• June was a big month of golf events for our keen and handicapped crew who enjoyed:
  • The Goldcorp Special Olympics Golf Invitational
  • Golf for Good
  • Boston Pizza Invitational
• Ali Pejman raises $175,000 for BC Children’s Hospital at the Annual Pie Throwing Contest.
• Fort Capital is a sponsor for the ACG BC Middle Market Growth Conference.
• Fort Capital along with Osler enjoyed an evening connecting innovation leaders who were attending Globe 2018 in Vancouver at the Mackenzie Room
• Fort Capital is a sponsor for the ACG BC Middle Market Growth Conference
• February 15th, 2018 – The Partners enjoyed FWE‘s Gala evening, celebrating women entrepreneurs in our community.
• February 6th, 2018 – USM Venture Capital Fund supports $750,000 Investment in Stroke Recovery Technology
• 2017
• September – Fort Capital places in the top 5 at the Up The Down Market Dinner investing competition in support of the Down Syndrome Research Foundation
• September – Boston Pizza International announces reorganization
• September – Lupaka Gold Corp has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Crucero Gold Project to GoldMining Inc. Crucero has an indicated mineral resource of over 1.0 million ounces.
• September – SPUD announces acquisition of Blush Lane Organic Market. The strategic transaction will allow SPUD to introduce its unique omni-channel strategy to Alberta.
• Our Fort Capital team raised over $8,000 for Power To Play, on September 21st at Stanley Park in the Brockton Oval
• Dave Bustos is the Conference Chairman at this years’ Business Transitions Forum, on November 15th
• Capstone Mining reaches agreement to sell Kutcho Project. Capstone has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement pursuant to which it has agreed to sell its Kutcho development project to Desert Star Resources Ltd
• On 1 June 2017, the Board of Minco announced that it had reached agreement with Dalradian Resources Inc. on the terms of the disposal of Minco’s 2% net smelter return royalty on the Curraghinalt gold deposit in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, which is currently being developed by Dalradian
• Golf for Good: www.golfforgood.ca,  Fort Capital will be sponsoring the Par 3 event and sending a team to support this event that raises money for the Atira Women’s Resource Society.
• Looking for insight on Asian Investors in the lower mainland? On June 13 2017, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM, our partner, Jack Chang will be speaking at the  ACG event luncheon: Topic: Asian Investors in BC private companies: What are they looking for and what influence will they have?  https://www.acg.org/bc/events/acg-bc-june-2017-lunch
• The Pejman Poker Invitational raised over $31,000 for Epilepsy research at BC Children’s Hospital. Thanks to all who joined Ali at the Vancouver Club to make this event such a success!
• Fort Capital is joining Goldcorp as a sponsor at this year’s Goldcorp invitational at Northview Golf and Country club in Surrey, to benefit the Special Olympics
• Business in Vancouver celebrates the top 100 deals of 2016
• Jack Chang speaks at the Globe Series
• Corvus continues to lead the way
• Forum for Women Entrepreneurs: Dave Bustos coaches Tara Bosch to a win in the “Pitch for the Purse”
• 2016
• Vancouver’s FlyOver Canada sold to American owners:
• https://www.biv.com/article/2016/12/vancouvers-flyover-canada-sold-american-owners/
• https://www.thestreet.com/story/13938734/1/viad-corp-acquires-flyover-canada-attraction.html
• Aritzia IPO is in the news
• Dolly Varden Silver –  regulators offer a lifeline 
• Goldcorp invests in the Yukon
• Freshtap moves into Ontario
• Freshtap captures a niche market in Vancouver
• Hardwoods make the news in the wood sector’s featured publication