Client Work Detail

On January 29, 2010, Novacap, one of Canada's leading private equity firms, acquired Smyth Companies, LLC.  Smyth, which was founded in 1877, is a Saint Paul, Minnesota based provider of primary packaging labels and related equipment and services to the food and beverage, health and beauty and household chemical markets.  As one of the oldest continually operating printing companies in the United States, Smyth has developed a reputation for quality, service and stability and possesses an exceptional institutional knowledge base.  Smyth serves as a trusted business partner to over 600 active customer accounts, including numerous blue-chip companies such as Clorox, Dial, Hormel, PepsiCo and General Mills.

Novacap was advised by Ogilvy Renault LLP with a team consisting of Patrick M. Shea, Edouard D. Vo-Quang and Marie-Claude Mailloux.