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We founded the Shaughnessy Group in 2017, our presence has ambitiously expanded across Canada, thanks to our recruitment and growth strategies.

With each member remaining fiercely independent, we continue to seek out and attract innovative, entrepreneurial professionals ready to lead their career and business to the next level, expanding their capabilities and creating new, added value for their clients.

We identified an ignored and underserved segment within the mid-market mergers and acquisitions advisory space. 

Sophisticated owner operators whose business in the five hundred thousand to three million EBITA range are considered too small to garner the time and attention or pay the fees of investment bankers and not well served by the passive commercial listing process of a business broker. 

Could we deliver “Bay Street” sophistication and attract a cosmopolitan global audience of Canadian and foreign buyers to “main street” Canadian business? 

The opportunity to create an organization of like-minded senior executives targeting the thirty thousand lower middle market Canadian organizations with revenues of $10MM to $50MM.

Organizations 83% owned by principal shareholders also known as "baby boomers" who have their wealth tied up in their business and are seeking to responsibly transition their business over the next decade. 

We have come to exist to create successful outcomes for our business owner clients, and a big part of our job involves educating the various stakeholders, advisors, intermediaries, and entrepreneurs themselves on what the M&A process looks like broadly and strategically to the nuanced tactics and specifics of a successful win-win outcome. 

Our members have been on all sides of the table, as advisors, entrepreneurs, lenders, executives, investors, board members and as business operators, and this experience allows us to see the bigger picture, anticipate challenges and effectively navigate the transactional landscape within the lower middle market.   

Today, our clients have asked us to aid them beyond the sale or divestiture of a division or business, to advise in their founding, growth through acquisition and source debt to fund their acquisitions.

Support from a collaborative network of professional’s coast to coast and globally.

• Enhanced brand recognition through nationally led marketing initiatives.
• Global brand recognition, resources, and access through membership in various international associations and networks.
• Innovative human resource strategies to attract, develop and retain top talent.
• Proven governance infrastructure.
• Capacity to offer clients a broader range of specialty services.
• Accordingly, our growth strategy shows no signs of letting up.  

We continue to attract outstanding geographically focused, or industry specialized boutique M&A firms.

Business owners and executives are discovering an alternative of entrepreneurially minded professionals who are proactively taking stock of their clients’ needs and seeking to join a network that offers both an innovative mindset and one-stop-shop specialty services. 

Possess a background that includes:

• 10+ years of successful commercial banking, corporate finance, merger, acquisitions, leasing, strategic advisory, financial services, and executive leadership experience.
• A respected leader in your community.
• Possess an established network of investment, Insurance, legal, accounting, tax, consulting, entrepreneurs, business owners and executive relationships. 
• A LinkedIn profile and growing social selling index.  

We are looking for market leaders who are:

 • Seeking top industry pay.

 • Expect to eat-what-you-kill.

 • Are Entrepreneurial by nature.

 • Prefer an independent environment.

• Are a deal junkie.

Our members have a demonstrated record of success, enabling you to punch above your weight class and win.

Join our team.