The Canada Growth Fund (CGF), CDPQ, Investissement Québec (IQ) and BDC Capital (BDC) are pleased to announce their $145 million commitment to MKB, a Québec growth equity firm investing in companies that are leading the energy transition.

CDPQ today presented an update of its results as at June 30, 2024.

CDPQ announced an investment of $158 million in WSP Global Inc. (TSX: WSP), a leading global professional services firm to enable its acquisition of POWER Engineers, a major U.S. consulting firm specialized in the power & energy industry.

La CDPQ, un groupe mondial d’investissement, a annoncé aujourd’hui avoir accordé 600 M$ à Fiera Capital, une société québécoise d’investissement de premier plan, dans le cadre de son ambition de porter à 8 G$ les sommes confiées à des gestionnaires québécois d’ici 2028.

United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, alongside South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana praised continued progress being made by members of the Investor Leadership Network and the Bellagio Private Capital Mobilization Consortium toward its goals of increasing investment flows of institutional capital into emerging markets.

CDPQ, a global investment group, today announced an agreement to provide USD 75 million (CAD 103 million) as part of a senior financing to Vantage Data Centers, a leading global provider of hyperscale data centers , to support the expansion of its Québec City Data Center Campus, QC2.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (“Couche-Tard” or the “Corporation”) (TSX: ATD) announced today that it entered into a private agreement with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (“CDPQ”), for the repurchase for cancellation of 8,695,652 common shares of Couche-Tard held by CDPQ at a price of CAD $80.50 per share, for a total consideration of approximately CAD $700 million. The repurchase price represents a discount of 3% to the closing price of the shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) on July 22, 2024, and will be paid using Couche-Tard’s cash on hand.

Less taken into account than environmental factors, social issues are however growing in the real estate industry

Verene Energia, a power transmission platform, and its owner CDPQ, a global investment group, today announced an agreement with Equatorial Energia S. A. for the acquisition of SPE 7, a strategic and modern power transmission network spanning 124 kilometres in the state of Pará, in northern Brazil.

Martin Longchamps granted an exclusive interview to Hannah Zhang from Private Equity International (PEI) on the evolution of private equity at CDPQ.