Peloton Capital Management — founded by two ex-Ontario Teachers’ managing directors — and Stephen Smith have acquired the advisory firm.
Private equity firm Peloton Capital Management and Canadian financial entrepreneur Stephen Smith have acquired proxy advisory and research firm Glass Lewis & Co., according to an announcement Tuesday.
Peloton and Smith bought Glass Lewis from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and the Alberta Investment Management Corp., known as AIMCo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition comes less than six months after Deutsche Börse said it was acquiring a majority stake in a Glass Lewis competitor Institutional Shareholder Services from its private equity owner Genstar Capital.
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