1 416 707 6630   [email protected]

Clients are provided with the expertise and experience of several traditional service providers, while providing the attention, creativity, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of a boutique firm.

Introduction

NorthCrest Partners provides advisory services to mid-market companies to achieve growth or meet restructuring needs.   Our main services include:

  • Consulting (Strategic and Operational)
  • Corporate Directorship
  • Canadian Representative of US Firms Seeking Canadian Capital Markets
  • Capital Pool Company (CPC) Subject Market Specialist – Creation, Sourcing & Financing – Participated in many TSX Sponsored Panel Presentations.
  • Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring
  • Capital Sourcing (for private and public companies)

We have been registered as an Exempt Market Dealer with the Ontario Securities Commission,since 2007.

We uniquely bring to our clients extensive operational and investment banking backgrounds.


Services We Offer

    • Local Partner to Advise International firms considering Canadian Capital Markets
    • Capital Pool Company (CPC) structuring
    • Corporate Directorship – experiences in Governance and Audit
    • Subject Specialist US Companies Listing on Canadian Exchanges
    • Local Partners for US Companies accessing Canadian Capital Markets
    • Corporate strategy and vision
    • Business diagnostic assessment
    • Business plans
    • Strategic alliances
    • Valuation opinions

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    • Private placements of equity or debt
    • Public offerings
    • Capital Pool Company (CPC) creation, sourcing, and financing
    • Project financing
    • Seed/Angel capital
    • Reverse takeovers
    • Divestitures
    • Management buyouts
    • Competitor buyouts
    • Strategic sale of assets
    • Succession issues
    • Balance sheet restructuring
    • Organizational structure
    • Operations plans
    • Sales plans
    • Management coaching

Our Expertise

We have successfully met our clients’ objectives in the following business sectors:

  • Manufacturing & Industrial Products
  • Music Royalties
  • Telecom Hardware & Services
  • IT Hardware, Software & Services
  • Wireless, Financial & Retail Software
  • Semiconductors
  • Biotechnology
  • Food Industry
  • Renewable Energy
  • Television Production
  • Longevity Village design

Meet Our Managing Director

Mark A. Lawrence P.Eng., MBA, CFA

Mark is Managing Director of NorthCrest Partners Inc., an Ontario-registered Exempt Market Dealer, where he leads private capital raises, corporate financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other capital-markets transactions for growth companies. Through NorthCrest, Mark works directly with issuers to structure financings, source investors, execute exempt-market offerings, and position companies for future financings and strategic transactions. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Prudential-Bache Securities, Midland Walwyn Capital and Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon, where he became a leading Canadian technology and telecommunications equity analyst. He is also Executive Chair of Angel Investors Ontario and has served as a director and investor in private and public companies.   

  • Mark Lawrence P.Eng., MBA, CFA
  • Managing Partner,
  • NorthCrest Partners Inc.
  • Tel: (416) 707-6630
  • [email protected]

Scott Lawrence BCom, CSC, EXMP

Scott Lawrence is an Associate at NorthCrest Partners Inc. and has worked in investment banking at the firm since May 2023. His experience spans private financings, financial analysis, due diligence, investor outreach and transaction execution, supported by a broader background in public-equity investing and sales.  A musician for nearly two decades, Scott also brings a longstanding personal understanding of music to NorthCrest’s work with the music financing ecosystem.