About Us

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Questra Corporate Finance Inc. was founded in 2019 to help BC business owners to develop and implement their business optimization and transition strategies. 

Questra's approach to transition planning is becoming part of your management team and managing the transition process from inside the organization. Our approach differs from external providers, including, brokers, accounting firms and investment banks, by directly working with your existing team to optimize operations in advance of a short-term or longer-term exit strategy. 

To discuss our approach to business optimization and transition planning, call us today.  

Our focus is on maximizing value, which can be achieved by:

- Optimizing the business in advance of a transaction.

- Running an efficient transaction process.

- Minimizing transaction costs and transaction risks.

We will work with you to ensure you understand the transaction process, transaction risks, and all of the components that make up your businesses value. 

We believe you should only pay for the services you need, without unnecessary add-ons. However, we have access to a broad range of specialists that can assist with everything performance and transaction related, from HR matters to tax planning to IT infrastructure. 

Doug Ryder is the managing director of Questra Corporate Finance – a boutique provider of transaction, valuation and management consulting services, in Vancouver, BC.

Doug was previously a partner with an international accounting firm, leading the Vancouver Transactions Practice. Doug completed his articles in accounting in New Zealand in 1998, prior to immigrating to Canada in 2005. He is also a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) and is certified to prepare valuation reports in accordance with International Valuation Standards (IVS).

Doug specializes in providing transaction and related services, covering mergers and acquisitions, capital structuring, strategic planning and capital sourcing. He has considerable experience in developing revenue and cash flow models relating to asset provisioning, strategic expansion and financial management, and conducts verification of the logic and integrity of complex financial models prepared in connection with long-term public/private partnership (“P3”) projects to design, build, finance, and operate major infrastructure facilities. 

Doug has performed a range of due diligence assignments from a financial point of view, providing guidance on corporate acquisitions and project feasibility. He also routinely performs valuation engagements to support corporate transactions, litigation matters and project viability.

Doug currently sits on the Board of the First Nations Limited Partnership, that comprises 16 First Nations in British Columbia. FNLP is a $500 million+ commercial partnership by and for First Nations who, together, negotiated and concluded a precedent-setting commercial benefits agreement regarding the Pacific Trail Pipelines (PTP) project.

§ Sale of Business | Our team has acted on behalf of a number of business owners helping them with preparing their business for sale, negotiating and closing the transaction. Transactions have included sales to management, financial and strategic buyers. Our transactional experience covers a broad range of industries including, retail, manufacturing, professional services, technology, car dealerships and new media; with enterprise values between $2m - $200m.

§ Valuation | We have prepared Valuation reports for companies and individual shareholders in various industries, including manufacturing, distribution, leasing, engineering, retail, car dealerships, new media, medical and various service industries. 

§ Acquisition Due Diligence | Our team has prepared financial due diligence and quality of earnings reports on a range of transaction on behalf of the acquirers and their lending institutions. 

§ Contractor Due Diligence | We have acted as financial advisor to developers on engagements involving performing due diligence on the proposed contractor; working with legal counsel on the financial aspects of the construction documents; preparing a financial model covering the construction, acquisition and operations phases of the project; and sourcing debt funding to facilitate the acquisition of the completed project. 

§ P3 Project Proponents | Our team has performed 50+ model examination engagements, issuing examination reports for the reliance of project proponents, federal, provincial, state and municipal authorities. These engagements involved the examination of the complex financial models covering the DBFM or DBFOM phases of each project, and review of the legal agreements to ensure the model was compliant. Projects recorded NPV values of between $100 million - $2 Billion.

§ First Nations Commercial Advisory | We have acted for various First Nations assessing viability and negotiating for participation rights in a range of commercial projects.  Projects have included,  Pipeline / Marine Transportation Infrastructure Project for a coastal First Nation, and  LNG Pipeline - evaluation and negotiation of economic participation by 15 First Nations in the Pacific Trails Pipeline. 

§ P3 - Third Party Equity Provider Project | We have been engaged to provide guidance on the construction and review of operating models comparing the actual results of the project’s operations to the forecast expectations of the project proponents financial close model. The purpose of these engagements were to assess the project proponent’s performance and provide updated calculations on the equity provider’s return on investment.