“Investing in partnership with outstanding management teams to grow energy companies and create shareholder value.”

ARC Financial Corp. is an employee owned firm that was founded in 1989 as a boutique investment and financial advisory firm focused on the Canadian energy industry. In our early years we focused on establishing an industry leading investment research capability, which we leveraged to build a highly successful corporate advisory practice. We also began to invest as principals and with partners in the equity of early stage energy companies and non-core oil and gas production assets.

Our production acquisition business evolved into ARC Energy Trust, a TSX listed Royalty Trust (“AET", AET.UN) which we founded in July of 1996. AET has gone on to become one of the leading players in the Canadian oil and gas royalty trust sector, having grown its production six-fold since inception to a current level of approximately 60, 000 BOE/day.  The contract under which we managed ARC Energy Trust was bought out by its unit holders in August 2002.

Our investment research, corporate advisory and equity investment businesses evolved into an exclusive focus on private equity investing with the raising of our first fund in November of 1997, ARC Energy Venture Fund 1 for Cdn $154.4 million. We have since gone on to raise five more private funds, the latest being ARC Energy Fund 6, which had its final closing on November 28, 2008 with total investor commitments of $829.5 million. Collectively, these six funds represent Cdn $2.7 billion of committed capital. Our investors are generally institutional, comprised of pension funds, endowments and foundations from Canada, the U.S. and Europe. 

Each of these funds has been (or will be) invested in a diversified portfolio of energy companies. Since the establishment of Fund 1, we have invested $2 billion in over 150 portfolio companies and realized gains of $1.1 billion on these investments. Depending on the pace of realizations and new investments, we are typically invested in roughly 45-55 portfolio companies across our funds at any point in time.

Leveraging off the experience, expertise, knowledge and relationships of our 25 plus investment professionals, we are seeking equity investments of $25-$75+ million in the following areas of the Canadian and global energy business: conventional exploration and production, oilfield services, infrastructure, power generation and emerging new sources of supply such as oil sands, unconventional gas and renewables.