February 2023: Origin Merchant Partners Provides Fairness Opinion and Advice to ICPEI Special Committee on the Acquisition of ICPEI by a Desjardins-led Consortium

February 2023: Origin Merchant Partners Provides Fairness Opinion and Advice to ICPEI Special Committee on the Acquisition of ICPEI by a Desjardins-led Consortium

By Charlie Osler

All Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions

February 28, 2023

Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce that it provided a Fairness Opinion and advice to the Special Committee of ICPEI Holdings Inc. (“ICPEI”) with respect to the acquisition of ICPEI by a consortium led by Dejardins General Insurance Group Inc (“Desjardins”).

ICPEI was founded in 1998 and operates in the Canadian property and casualty insurance industry through its wholly owned subsidiary, The Insurance Company of Prince Edward Island, which provides commercial and personal lines of insurance products exclusively through the broker channel.

Desjardins, a subsidiary of Desjardins Financial Corporation Inc., is a Canadian leader in P&C insurance. The company offers automobile insurance, home insurance and business insurance products through agents in the Desjardins caisse network in Quebec, through several Client Care Centres, through Dejardins’ websites and, in some cases, through smartphone technology.

Origin Senior Leads: Charles Pennock.