Category Legal

L’Alliance civique: au-delà de la politique, vers des résultats

Le Canada ne manque pas d’idées.Il souffre d’un écart entre les idées et leur exécution. Après avoir écouté, réfléchi et échangé avec de nombreuses perspectives au cours des derniers mois, une conclusion s’impose : Nous n’avons pas besoin d’un autre… Continue Reading →

The Civic Alliance: Beyond Politics, Toward Outcomes

Canada doesn’t suffer from a lack of ideas.It suffers from a gap between ideas and execution. After listening, reflecting, and engaging with many perspectives over the past few months, one conclusion has become clear: We don’t need another political party…. Continue Reading →

Defining IOI, LOI, Term Sheet & Definitive Agreements

This is one of those things where people nod along but don’t actually understand the sequence. Here’s a Peanut Project–friendly, plain English, but still deal-accurate. 🥜 Peanut Project Deal Flow Explained (IOI → LOI → Term Sheet → Definitive Agreements)… Continue Reading →

Would You Resist a $100M Payoff For 90 Days’ Work?

(And Why Entrepreneurship Is Mostly About What You Don’t Do) This week, on a routine call with an investment banker, something interesting happened. In the middle of explaining the progress of the Peanut Project — the capital stack, the sequencing,… Continue Reading →

From League of Nations to the United Nations, to the Forum of Free Nations?

Why the World May Need a New Multilateral Architecture — Without Tearing Down the Old One The United Nations is not going anywhere. It is too embedded, too institutionalized, too global. It has agencies in every corner of the world,… Continue Reading →

From Conviction to Process: Launching the Peanut Project’s Next Phase

Why we’re formally opening the process — and what it means for investors, partners, and Montreal. For the past few months, the Peanut Project has existed in an unusual space: highly visible, quietly serious, and deliberately unstructured. That was intentional…. Continue Reading →

Over-Extension, Pivots, and the Myth of “Just Add Capital”

I recently read a solid case study on the implosion of MrBeast’s burger venture. It was a good read. While I was familiar with most of it, there were a few new details that were genuinely interesting. What struck me… Continue Reading →

Financing Update: Leaning In, Slowing Down, and Doing the Work

One of the quiet milestones over the past few weeks has been crossing into what I’d call a FrieNDA phase. Not formal NDAs yet, but enough shared context, candor, and mutual respect that conversations are no longer hypothetical. While I personally adopt… Continue Reading →

Overcoming Insurmountable Obststacles Is a Feature, Not a Bug

When people look at a complex, multi-year effort like exploring the return of Major League Baseball to Montreal, it’s easy to assume it’s the most daunting challenge one could voluntarily take on. In reality, it’s simply the latest expression of… Continue Reading →

Match Making & Packaging: How Modern Ownership Groups Are Built (and Why the Right Partner Matters More Than the Richest One)

If you strip away the emotion, nostalgia and spectacle of sports, what remains is the rarest asset class in modern capitalism. There are only 30 MLB teams on Earth.You cannot manufacture more supply.But demand keeps rising, especially as franchises have… Continue Reading →

The Two Eras of Sports Ownership — Is a Third Era Beginning?

The response to my exploration of a return of MLB to Montreal has been extremely positive. For anyone trying to understand where sports ownership is going — whether as a civic leader, entrepreneur, fan, or investor — you really need… Continue Reading →

Overthinking

I guess I concede that if I had to restart this exercise to bring MLB back with the Montreal Expos, I would have asked one of my investment banker friends — or literally the firm we hired to manage the… Continue Reading →

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