Steven Collia

Steven Collia is the National Leader of PwC Canada’s Valuations practice and is based in Toronto. He oversees a team of approximately 100 practitioners across the country who address a broad spectrum of valuation needs, including business valuations, valuations of complex securities and private credit, real estate and fixed assets, disputes and insurance claims, and economics advisory mandates.

With over 20 years of experience, Steven helps clients evaluate critical business decisions through a value and risk lens. He advises on issues such as mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinions, regulatory and tax valuations, fair value measurement for financial reporting, corporate reorganizations and strategic transactions, providing independent valuation insights that support better decision-making, enhance stakeholder alignment and improve outcomes for shareholders.

Steven serves a diverse mix of clients in the private equity and pension sectors, as well as financial services institutions, including international banks, insurers and asset and wealth managers. His combination of technical valuation expertise, sector experience and practical perspective enables him to guide boards and executives through complex, high-stakes decisions with confidence.

Recent experience:

- Fairness Opinion related to a transaction involving international Ai enabled software entites valued over $10B

- Independent estimate valuations of various legal entities, carried interests and other complex securities in relation to development and execution of a broad based management incentive plan for a global asset manager valued over $5B

- Independent valuation and sell side advisory in relation to the carve out of a venture tech loan portfolio resulting from the failure of an international banking and lending institution

- Estimate valuations for tax planning purposes in relation to a North American family office involving the prepartion of over 20 seperate valuation reports and covering assets including public and private company shares, fixed income instruments and real estate holdings.

Steven began his career with PwC working in the firm’s Audit and Assurance practice. He is a graduate of McMaster University an Honours Bachelor of Commerce (summa cum laude) in 2004. He is a Chartered Accountant (2007), placing in the National UFE Honour Roll (top 50 in Canada), and a Chartered Business Valuator (2009).