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Jan 17, 2025

On January 17, 2025, funds advised by BlueMatrix Parent, LP (“BlueMatrix”), a portfolio company of Thoma Bravo, completed the acquisition of Quantify Labs Inc. d/b/a/ Street Context (“Street Context”).

BlueMatrix is the global leader in financial services research publishing and distribution. Street Context is a market leader in email intelligence and analytics. The acquisition will allow the two organizations to combine and build a next-generation information platform for financial institutions, providing financial data and consumption analytics.

Working alongside Kirkland & Ellis LLP, McMillan acted as Canadian counsel to Blue Matrix on this cross-border transaction, providing corporate support, leading the acquisition financing workstream, and liaising with subject matter specialists across the firm. Michael Whitcombe and Mikolaj Niski led McMillan’s national and multidisciplinary team, which included David Zhang, Vaughan Rawes, Ted Thiessen, Maria Sagan, ZiJian Yang, Paul Barbeau, Robert Piasentin, Kristen Pennington, Yue Fei, Kari Kim-Gallately, William Wu, Ximena Pinilla, David Fanjoy.

As a national business law firm with exceptional capabilities to lead businesses through cross-border transactions and investments into Canada and within multifaceted regulatory regimes, McMillan provides real-time business solutions to our clients. Our legal teams are skilled at structuring and closing complex deals in Canada, the US and internationally and in providing innovative transactional advice and solutions. Our understanding of business imperatives and our relationships with regulators help our clients stay ahead.