The Canadian Junior Public Equity Markets
What Silicon Valley is to venture capital, Canada — especially Western Canada — is to junior public equity markets. Historically, it was predominantly companies in the mining and energy sectors that took advantage of these markets. Increasingly, our junior public equity markets serve a much broader base of sectors.
Public equity markets aren’t reserved for institutional investors, high-net worth individuals and those closely connected to companies raising capital. They are open to everyone. In fact, using “newer” prospectus exemptions, like…