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On December 30, 2021, River Associates Investments, LP (\u201cRiver Associates\u201d or \u201cRiver\u201d) closed a complex, cross-border acquisition of Hoskin Scientific, Limited, a British Columbia-based distributor of essential test, measurement and monitoring equipment serving the environmental, geotechnical and processing markets throughout Canada with operations in four Canadian provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

River funded the transaction with equity from its seventh investment fund (River VII, L.P.). Financing was provided by the Bank of Montreal and PNC Mezzanine Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

River Associates is a  lower-middle market private equity firm based in Chattanooga, TN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller Thomson acted as Canadian counsel to River Associates in this transaction with the acquisition team being led by Andrew Cohen with the assistance of Myriam Bensadoun-Amato, Joshua Sherkin and Josyane Ledoux (Corporate\/M&A); with the financing team of Luc-Antoine Manneh and Nadim Elkommos (Financial Services); and also involving Andrew Etcovitch (Corporate Tax); David Tsai (Labour & Employment); Alexandre Ajami (IP and Data); Daniel Kiselbach (Trade); Stuart Chaimberg, Shannon Sturgeon and Wendy Belisle (Real Estate); Eric Dufour (Competition); as well as Tamara Farber and Christie McLeod (Environmental).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","class_list":["post-3913","deals-cases","type-deals-cases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRiver Associates acquires Hoskin Scientific | Miller Thomson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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