PwC Capital Markets Flash

Volume 5, Issue 2 | Oct. 28, 2011

Q3 Report: Bay St. vs. Main St.

In the Q3 Quarterly Deals edition of the Capital Markets Flash report, we have taken a regional approach to M&A analysis to identify key deal trends by province.

Highlights of our analysis include:

1. Ontario and Quebec continue to be among the top three investment destinations in Canada, but each province has lost market share to the western provinces over the past decade.
2. Ontario and British Colombia are two of the world’s greatest beneficiaries of the commodities “super cycle”.
3. In Alberta, oil and gas deals once represented 80% of the acquisitions, but these have declined to only 50% of the province’s takeover market.
4. The Atlantic provinces, which hardly registered on our deal tally as an investment destination in 2000, are an increasingly popular destination for M&A.

	Special Feature: A Changing Canadian M&A Landscape Download the full PDF.
	Capital Markets Flash: Q3 Report Download the full PDF.