Providing the Right Guidance and Capital to the People and Companies With Whom We Partner.

Clairvest’s mission is to partner with entrepreneurs to help build strategically significant businesses. Founded in 1987 by a group of successful entrepreneurs, Clairvest is a top performing private equity management firm with over $4.4 billion of capital under management. As a publicly listed company (TSX: CVG), Clairvest manages its own capital by co-investing alongside institutional investors in owner-led businesses.

Our management teams trust our ability to support them through their most important milestones as they grow their companies, take on new challenges, make acquisitions, and build their legacies. We have an effective, well-developed playbook for value creation that speaks from our experience of helping to build companies.

What Makes Clairvest Different

You have an invested partner by your side who shares the risk with you. We invest our own money and are the largest investor in our own funds.
You partner with a winning team. Clairvest has a leading industry track record of helping to build valuable businesses that spans over 30 years.
We create value together by building better companies. We are long term investors who believe in fundamental value creation not market timing or financial engineering.
Clairvest appreciates the entrepreneurial spirit of our partners. We seek minority positions alongside our operating partners and are comfortable with ownership positions that align with their interests.
You will gain a true knowledge partner who understands your industry.
Just like you, we are passionate about our work and our senior team has worked together for over 20 years.

Measured Success Through Partnership

$2B+

of personal net worth created by our partners after Clairvest investment

3.8x

capital growth over 45 exited investments

6,000+

jobs created at portfolio companies in last 10 years

410+

add-on acquisitions completed

66

partnership investments to date
When We Succeed, Together In
Building Valuable Enterprises, We:
  • Create value for all stakeholders
  • Foster progress and efficiency
  • Create employment
  • Contribute to economic growth
  • Support the communities in which we live