FinTech

Transactions

• Cboe Global Markets, Inc. on its share purchase of Aequitas Innovations, Inc. (more commonly known as NEO)

• ​The underwriters on Propel Holdings Inc.'s C$61-million initial public offering

• ​Koho Financial Inc. on its C$70-million Series C financing led by new investor TTV Capital

• ​Controlling Shareholder of Wealthsimple in respect of the C$750-million financing round of Wealthsimple shares led by Meritech and Greylock, which involved a C$500-million secondary sale of shares by the controlling shareholder

• ATB Financial on the acquisition of the technology assets of Grow Technologies Inc.

• Gypsum Management & Supply, Inc. on its C$800-million acquisition of WSB Titan from TorQuest Partners

• Great Hill Partners on the acquisition of VersaPay Corporation

• Lucara Diamond Corp. on its US$29-million acquisition of Clara Diamond Solutions Corp., a digital sales platform using cloud and blockchain technologies

• Polymath on the establishment and launch of their Security Token Standard on the Ethereum blockchain

• FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. on the acquisition of Associated Foreign Exchange, Inc. (AFEX), a cross-border payment solutions provider and Cambridge Mercantile Corp., a business-to-business payments company, for approximately US$650-million

• Global Payments Inc. on its acquisition of the merchant acquiring business and portfolio of 40,000 merchants of Desjardins Group

• EVO Payments, Inc. on its acquisition of Delego Software, a provider of best-in-class integrated payment solutions for merchants leveraging SAP’s ERP solutions

• ​KOHO on its C$42-million series B investment round

• TD Bank Group on its acquisition of Layer 6 Inc.

• CI Financial Corp. on its acquisition of a majority stake in WealthBar Financial Services Inc.

• PayPal Holdings, Inc. on its US$400-million acquisition of Hyperwallet Systems Inc.

• Senso.ai on its initial structuring and seed investments led by Breakawaygrowth LLC

• Financeit in connection with their launch of the “The Home Depot Project Loan” in partnership with Home Depot

• Frontier Capital, LLC on its acquisition of Agreement Express Inc. and its subsidiary corporations through a plan of arrangement.

• Stored Value Solutions, a subsidiary of FleetCor Technologies, Inc., on its acquisition of Buyatab Online Inc., as part of its expansion in the emerging digital gifting space

• Rally Chain Technologies Inc. on the sale of substantially all of its assets to Finhaven Technology Inc.

• Guangbo Group on its acquisition of a 26 per cent stake in Geoswift Asset Management Limited

• Volkswagen Financial Services AG in connection with its acquisition of PayByPhone from PayPoint plc.

• Imperva, Inc., a cybersecurity leader, on its acquisition of assets of Camouflage Software, Inc.

• Dealnet Capital Corp. on its C$35-million acquisition of EcoHome Financial Inc. from Chesswood Holdings Ltd. and financing by way of a private placement of subscription receipts

• Webtech Wireless Inc. on the sale of its issued and outstanding common shares to BSM Technologies Inc. pursuant to a plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act

• IGM Financial Inc. on a US$50-million acquisition of preferred stock of Personal Capital Inc. with an agreement to invest an additional US$25-million in the following year

• Morgan Stanley Capital Partners on the complex, cross-border leveraged acquisition of Access Cash Limited Partnership, a Canadian ATM operator

• Cognizant on its acquisition of Idea Couture, a privately held firm that offers digital innovation, strategy, design and technology services

• Galaxy Investment Partners LLC on an arrangement involving the business combination of Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc., Galaxy Digital LP and First Coin Capital Corp. to form a leading new enterprise in the blockchain, digital asset and cryptocurrency space

• Evolve Funds Group Inc. on the initial public offering of the Evolve Blockchain ETF and preliminary prospectus filing of the Evolve Bitcoin ETF

• Kik Interactive on its initial coin offering

Regulatory & Compliance

• ​SecureKey Technologies Inc. on its new product offering Verified.Me

• Financeit in connection with its launch of a home improvement project loan, an innovative point of sale financing product that combines the features of a prepaid card, line of credit and instalment loan

• Credit Karma, a free credit and financial management platform, with its expansion into Canada

• Intuit Inc., a business and financial software company, on complying with Canadian regulatory law

• CIBC on its services agreement with Borrowell Inc. and providing commercial and regulatory advice on its partnership with a FinTech — a first for a major Canadian bank

• Iconomi on the establishment of a digital asset array management platform

• Lenders on structuring e-commerce payment instalment plans

• Retailers in structuring payment apps and payment processing programs

• Issuers in structuring arrangements with program managers