TorQuest Partners invests in Johnvince Foods
Torys acted as counsel to TorQuest with a team led by Josh Lavine and that included Pat Chapman and Brianna Pioli (corporate/M&A), Tom Zverina, Adrienne Love and Sebastian Gorlewski (lending), Tom Stevenson and Christophe Cinqmars-Viau (employment), Jerald Wortsman and Benjamin Mann (tax).
On April 4, 2022, TorQuest Partners (“TorQuest”) announced that it completed an investment in Johnvince Food Group Inc. (“Johnvince”), a leading processor and distributor of snack nuts, confectionary, dried fruit, and other related products and with a workforce of over 1,300 employees across North America.
TorQuest’s investment in Johnvince is the seventh platform investment for TorQuest Partners Fund V, a C$1.375 billion fund that closed in March 2020.
Further information can be found on TorQuest’s website.
Johnvince is a leading processor and distributor of snack nuts, confectionary, dried fruit, and other related products through branded, bulk, and private label sales to leading Canadian and U.S. retailers.
TorQuest is a Canadian-based manager of private equity funds with more than C$3 billion of equity capital under management.