TORONTO, March 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Guardian Capital Group Restricted (Guardian) (TSX: GCG) (TSX: GCG.A) is happy to announce that it has obtained all regulatory approvals required to shut the previously-announced statutory plan of association beneath the Enterprise Firms Act (Ontario) (the Association), pursuant to which Desjardins World Asset Administration Inc., an affiliate of Desjardins Group, will purchase the entire issued and excellent Frequent shares and Class A shares of Guardian (collectively, the Guardian Shares), aside from sure Guardian Shares owned by specified shareholders who entered into fairness rollover agreements, for C$68.00 per Guardian Share in money.
About Guardian Capital Group Restricted
Guardian Capital Group Restricted (Guardian) is a world funding administration firm servicing institutional, retail and personal shoppers by its subsidiaries. Based in 1962, Guardian’s popularity for regular progress, long-term relationships and its core values of authenticity, integrity, stability and trustworthiness have been key to its success over six many years. Its Frequent and Class A shares are listed on the Toronto Inventory Trade as GCG and GCG.A, respectively. To be taught extra about Guardian, go to www.guardiancapital.com.
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This press launch comprises “forward-looking information” inside the that means of relevant Canadian securities legal guidelines. Ahead-looking info could relate to our future outlook and anticipated occasions or outcomes and should embody info concerning our monetary place, enterprise technique, progress technique, budgets, operations, monetary outcomes, taxes, dividend coverage, plans and aims. Significantly, info concerning our expectations of future outcomes, efficiency, achievements, prospects or alternatives is forward-looking info. In some instances, forward-looking info may be recognized by way of forward-looking terminology akin to “plans”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “outlook”, “forecasts”, “projection”, “prospects”, “strategy”, “intends”, “anticipates”, “does not anticipate”, “believes”, or variations of such phrases and phrases or statements that sure actions, occasions or outcomes “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will”, “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. As well as, any statements that consult with expectations, intentions, projections or different characterizations of future occasions or circumstances comprise forward-looking info. Statements containing forward-looking info are usually not historic info however as an alternative signify administration’s expectations, estimates and projections concerning future occasions or circumstances. These statements embody, with out limitation, statements concerning the anticipated time limit for the Association.
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Undue reliance shouldn’t be positioned on forward-looking info. The forward-looking info on this press launch relies on our opinions, estimates and assumptions in gentle of our expertise and notion of historic tendencies, present situations and anticipated future developments, in addition to different elements that we presently consider are applicable and affordable within the circumstances. Regardless of a cautious course of to organize and evaluate the forward-looking info, there may be no assurance that the underlying opinions, estimates and assumptions will show to be right. Additional, forward-looking info is topic to identified and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different elements which will trigger precise outcomes, degree of exercise, efficiency or achievements to be materially totally different from these expressed or implied by such forward-looking info, together with however not restricted to, these described on this press launch. As well as, elements that might trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from expectations embody, amongst different issues, the chance that the Association is not going to be accomplished on the phrases and situations, or on the timing, presently contemplated, and that it will not be accomplished in any respect, because of a failure to fulfill, in a well timed method or in any other case, the remaining situations to the closing of the Association or for different causes, the unfavorable impression that the failure to finish the Association for any purpose may have on the value of the Guardian Shares or on the enterprise of Guardian, common financial and market situations, together with curiosity and international trade charges, international monetary markets, the impression of pandemics or epidemics, adjustments in authorities laws or in tax legal guidelines, business competitors, technological developments and different elements described or mentioned in Guardian’s disclosure supplies filed with relevant securities regulatory authorities every so often. Extra details about the dangers and uncertainties of Guardian’s enterprise and materials danger elements or assumptions on which info contained in ahead‐trying info relies is offered in Guardian’s disclosure supplies, together with Guardian’s most not too long ago filed annual info kind and any subsequently-filed interim administration’s dialogue and evaluation, which can be found beneath Guardian’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.
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