Silversmith Capital Partners leads investment

16 May 2019

Team:

Peter Doelman, Anita Yuk, Olivia Lifman, Elizabeth Burton, Chris Colonval, Paul Carenza, Michael Schalke, Anita Nador, Paul Armitage, Stacey Handley

On May 16, 2019, PDFTron Systems announced that it had secured a US$71 million investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners.

PDFTron Systems, a leading provider of document processing tools for software developers, is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The investment will be used to support PDFTron's significant R&D and product development resources, and to pursue acquisitions in both North America and Europe.

Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with US$1.1 billion of capital under management. Silversmith's mission is to partner with and support the best entrepreneurs in growing, profitable technology and healthcare companies. The firm seeks to invest US$15 million to US$75 million per company.

Gowling WLG was Canadian counsel to Silversmith with respect to this investment with a team that was led by Ian Palm and that included Peter Doelman, Anita Yuk and Olivia Lifman (corporate); Elizabeth Burton, Chris Colonval and Stephen Hedley (financial services); Paul Carenza (tax); Michael Schalke (employment); Anita Nador and Paul Armitage (IT and IP); and Stacey Handley (real estate).

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