F&M Management Ltd. (F&M) would like to congratulate Teranis Consulting Ltd. (Teranis) shareholders and employees for finalizing their transaction with IBI Group Inc. (IBI) and joining IBI’s Canadian-based international consulting services. F&M is proud to have been involved as M&A advisors to Teranis and wish our client success in their future careers at IBI.
About Teranis
Founded in 2006, Teranis was born out of a need to provide more inclusive, respectful and ethical services to First Nations communities, with the majority of its clients residing in such communities throughout British Columbia. Specializing in high quality, value-added professional services associated with contaminated site investigation, remediation and risk assessment, the firm’s approach is to actively engage the Nation and its membership, and to build capacity wherever possible during the environmental assessment of its land.
“I am invigorated by the opportunity that this partnership represents to apply the principle of ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ to enhance the relationships we have built with Indigenous communities in BC and throughout Canada,” said Teranis Managing Principal, Ian Collings. “Mi’kmaw Elder, Albert Marshall, defined two-eyed seeing or Etuaptmumk as learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing and from the other eye with the strengths of mainstream knowledge and ways of knowing. We see many inequities in the communities we operate in, and we believe that as part of IBI, we will be able to provide more holistic support by gaining access to the firm’s integrated professional service offering.”
About IBI
(TSX:IBG) is a technology-driven design firm with global architecture, engineering, planning, and technology expertise spanning over 60 offices and 3,000 professionals around the world. For nearly 50 years, its dedicated professionals have helped clients create livable, sustainable, and advanced urban environments. IBI Group believes that cities thrive when designed with intelligent systems, sustainable buildings, efficient infrastructure, and a human touch.
“Through the strong scientific backgrounds of its founders, Teranis brings a unique skillset to IBI that augments several of our existing practice areas, including municipal and land development, water and wastewater management, flood mitigation, and renewable energy solutions,” said IBI Group CEO, Scott Stewart. “I’m pleased to welcome the Teranis team to IBI, and look forward to broadening our environmental and climate mitigation offering, as well as deepening our commitment to and collaboration with Indigenous communities.”
About F&M
F&M was founded in 2010 to become the leading corporate advisory and management consulting company to serve the environmental and engineering sectors in Canada. F&M has successfully completed many Mergers and Acquisition transactions and provided advice on management buy-out and buy-in projects that have resulted in our clients reaching their financial and corporate objectives. F&M’s team of seasoned professionals are highly skilled business leaders who bring decades of hands-on experience gained through senior leadership roles in environmental and engineering firms.
F&M are the founders of the only executive level conference, CE3C Conference www.ce3c.ca for the environmental and engineering consulting sector in Canada. The conference provides a venue whereby senior executives in the sector can meet and discuss key issues facing the industry.
F&M Management Ltd. (F&M) would like to congratulate Stratos Inc. shareholders and employees for finalizing their transaction with ERM and joining ERM’s global team of sustainability professionals. F&M is proud to have been involved as Stratos’ M&A advisors and wish our client success in their future careers at ERM.
About Stratos
Stratos is one of Canada’s leading management consultancies focused exclusively on ESG and sustainability. Comprised of trusted advisors, researchers, strategists, and integrators, Stratos has a strong and credible reputation in both corporate and government circles for providing objective and practical advice and producing high-quality products. The company was founded in 2000 in Ottawa, Ontario.
About ERM
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges, and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.
ERM’s diverse team of over 5,500 world-class experts in over 150 offices in more than 40 countries supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability. Through ERM’s deep technical expertise clients are well positioned to address their environmental, health, safety, risk, and social issues. ERM calls this capability its “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.
About F&M
F&M was founded in 2010 to become the leading corporate advisory and management consulting company to serve the environmental and engineering sectors in Canada. F&M has successfully completed many Mergers and Acquisition transactions and provided advice on management buy-out and buy-in projects that have resulted in our clients reaching their financial and corporate objectives. F&M’s team of seasoned professionals are highly skilled business leaders who bring decades of hands-on experience gained through senior leadership roles in environmental and engineering firms.
F&M are the founders of the only executive level conference, CE3C, www.ce3c.ca for the environmental and engineering consulting sector in Canada. The conference provides a venue whereby senior executives in the sector can meet and discuss key issues facing the industry.
F&M Management Ltd. (F&M) has been providing corporate advisory services to our clients for ten successful years. This has included management and project management training. We are announcing the formation of a new company, Meridus Management Ltd. (Meridus), with a focus specifically on project management training.
We are very excited about this initiative as project management is one of the most fundamental strengths our clients offer. Their ability to manage projects has a tremendous impact on their reputation, the scope of services they can provide and bottom-line financial performance. While teaching the key fundamentals of project management we provide unique approaches and philosophies that are applied across an organization to allow the management of larger and complicated projects more effectively.
Our initial goal at Meridus is to bring our best-in-class live training to an engaging, online experience. The courses are well into the development phase and the expected launch of this innovative initiative is in early 2021. We are excited to present this initiative to the industry because we truly believe it will have a significant impact for our clients.
More announcements regarding Meridus and course content are coming this fall.
Faramarz Bogzaran, CMC, EP
Managing Partner
Leroy Banack, M.Sc., EP
Senior Partner
F&M Management has been a sound business partnership between Leroy and me for 10 years. We have known one another for over 20 years. Our approach to every assignment reflects our experience of known of trust, collaboration, solution and delivery.
As we celebrate ten years of providing corporate advisory services to our clients, we want you to know that your trust and support have always been the biggest drivers for our continued success!
Over the past ten years we have;
• Assisted many of our clients to achieve their lifetime goal of realizing the equity they have built over the years as their M&A advisors
• Assisted some clients through an effective ownership transition by structuring Management Buyouts and Buy-Ins
• Provided help to many of our clients with their business optimization goals as part of their corporate growth strategies
• Provided training of over fifteen hundred project managers across the country, using our customized project management training platform
• Provided corporate and project management guidance to some of the largest projects in the industry
• Helped to implement proper corporate governance to manage corporate risks
• Provided a platform for senior executives of the industry to network and discuss key issues facing the industry by organizing annual CE3C Conferences
Our clients have always been an integral part of our journey in the past ten years. Our clients’ trust, support and satisfaction are the key reasons for Leroy and I to continue providing corporate advisory services to the industry.
We would also like to recognize our associates who have been instrumental in our client service delivery over the years.
Faramarz Bogzaran, CMC, EP
Managing Partner
Leroy Banack, M.Sc., EP
Senior Partner
As the founders of the CE3C conference in 2017, F&M Management and its partners held successful conferences in 2018 and 2019 for the executives of environmental consulting and engineering sector in Canada. We soon realized that in order to maintain the high-quality deliverables and expansion of the conference we needed to align the conference with a reputable marketing and media company in Canada. In 2018 we were approached by Actual Media, our Media sponsor, indicating their keen interest in joining our efforts to deliver the future conferences.
After further assessment and negotiations with Actual Media, we agreed to form a new company called CE3C Management Ltd. to house the conference. F&M Management retained the majority ownership of CE3C Management Ltd. as the founder of the conference and will be involved in the conference program management and technical delivery related to industry benchmarking and ensuring the conference maintains a high degree of professional output. Actual Media will be responsible for marketing the conference, conference organization and sponsorship. We are very pleased with our new partnership with Actual Media as we continue serving the environmental consulting and engineering sector in Canada
Read the latest issue of the Strategic Advisor Newsletter. In Edition XV, topics include:
- Canadian Environmental & Engineering Executive Conference – CE3C;
- Closing the Gender Gap in our Industry;
- Cultivating Leadership in Your Organization;
- Being Audited by the CRA; and,
- M&A News
Read the latest issue of The Strategic Advisor. In this edition we discuss the Canadian Enivronmental and Engineering Conference being held in Vancouver this fall; Collaborating with your competitors and wether it can be beneficial; Commoditization in our Industry; IT Governance; and Q4 M&A News.
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