As of 1 November 2026, the buy-side advisory practice previously operated by Vibanc Partners is now ClosePoint Partners Inc., an independent M&A advisory firm. Vibanc continues as the operating infrastructure behind M&A, and ClosePoint is proud to be a founding partner firm of the Vibanc platform.
ClosePoint Partners now provides the consulting services previously offered under the Vibanc brand.
Every active mandate continues with the same people running it.
Jeff Duke leads the firm as Founder and Managing Director. Andrew McLeod and Owen Madrick continue to support mandates as Senior Advisors.
ClosePoint works as the outsourced corporate development team for companies that grow by acquisition. It runs all five parts of that work: strategy and readiness, secured financing, confidential origination, transaction execution, then integration and value creation after close. Clients take the parts they need.
Over the past 12 months the practice sourced more than $300M in qualified deals from more than 100,000 targets, with clients seeing their first qualified Target Package in 54 days on average. On transaction execution, from signed LOI to close, its deals have closed 38% faster than the market average for transactions of $5M to $50M.
“Vibanc is the infrastructure. ClosePoint is the practical application in advisory,” said Duke. “This practice has earned its reputation working with some of the best companies in the country, and I’m excited to build on it. We’re focused on creating an operating model that attracts top talent from investment banking and advisory. That’s how we grow ClosePoint beyond Canada and expand our service lines to serve our clients better.”