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Top Dealers for Equity (excluding self-led deals) | |||
Rank | Underwriter | Proceeds ($-bil) | Number of Issues |
1 | RBC Dominion Securities | 5.50 | 68 |
2 | BMO Nesbitt Burns | 4.69 | 45 |
3 | TD Securities | 3.62 | 40 |
4 | CIBC World Markets | 2.81 | 40 |
5 | Scotia Capital | 2.05 | 35 |
6 | National Bank Financial | 1.34 | 43 |
7 | GMP Capital | 1.08 | 37 |
8 | Canaccord Genuity | 1.00 | 42 |
9 | Cormark Securities | 0.68 | 27 |
10 | Dundee Securities | 0.52 | 32 |
Total | 31.79 | 393 | |
Top Dealers for Debt (excluding self-led deals) | |||
Rank | Underwriter | Proceeds ($-bil) | Number of Issues |
1 | RBC Dominion Securities | 40.04 | 133 |
2 | National Bank Financial | 30.38 | 74 |
3 | CIBC World Markets | 25.73 | 132 |
4 | TD Securities | 23.19 | 83 |
5 | BMO Nesbitt Burns | 20.36 | 65 |
6 | Scotia Capital | 17.02 | 58 |
7 | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | 3.20 | 10 |
8 | HSBC | 1.30 | 8 |
9 | Desjardins Securities | 1.09 | 2 |
10 | GMP Capital | 0.62 | 3 |
Total | 165.00 | 376 | |
Top Dealers for IPOs | |||
Rank | Underwriter | Proceeds ($-mil) | Number of Issues |
1 | RBC Dominion Securities | 385.0 | 6 |
2 | CIBC World Markets | 269.7 | 4 |
3 | Scotia Capital | 267.8 | 3 |
4 | Morgan Stanley | 267.1 | 2 |
5 | BMO Nesbitt Burns | 248.4 | 3 |
6 | TD Securities | 229.0 | 4 |
7 | Deutsche Bank | 190.7 | 1 |
8 | Bank of China | 190.7 | 1 |
9 | National Bank Financial | 97.4 | 3 |
10 | Canaccord Genuity | 97.0 | 4 |
Total | 2,465.6 | 18 | |
Top Dealers for M&A (Any Canadian Involvement) | |||
Rank |
Financial Adviser | Ttl Value incl. net debt ($-mil) |
Number of Deals |
1 | RBC Dominion Securities | 76,156.1 | 105 |
2 | Goldman Sachs | 49,186.3 | 21 |
3 | BMO Nesbitt Burns | 48,693.7 | 62 |
4 | TD Securities | 29,584.7 | 40 |
5 | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | 29,056.5 | 18 |
6 | Scotia Capital | 26,225.6 | 29 |
7 | CIBC World Markets | 25,117.6 | 37 |
8 | Citi | 22,702.8 | 8 |
9 | Credit Suisse | 20,078.4 | 22 |
10 | National Bank Financial | 17,740.6 | 26 |
11 | Barclays | 16,334.7 | 20 |
12 | Morgan Stanley | 14,710.9 | 14 |
13 | Jefferies & Co | 11,065.5 | 14 |
14 | Canaccord Genuity | 11,054.3 | 16 |
15 | JP Morgan | 11,040.5 | 13 |
16 | Rothschild | 10,499.7 | 14 |
17 | Deutsche Bank | 9,837.4 | 10 |
18 | UBS | 9,525.0 | 13 |
19 | Evercore Partners | 9,236.4 | 10 |
20 | Macquarie Group | 7,750.7 | 18 |
21 | Lazard | 7,557.7 | 14 |
22 | LionTree Advisors | 6,579.0 | 1 |
23 | GMP Capital | 6,432.8 | 27 |
24 | FirstEnergy Capital | 5,845.3 | 17 |
25 | HSBC Holdings | 5,054.5 | 4 |
Total for deals with financial advisers | 213,664.5 | 2,962 | |
Top Law Firms for M&A (Any Canadian Involvement) | |||
Rank |
Adviser (Full credit to each Adviser) | Ttl Value incl. net debt ($-mil) |
Number of Deals |
1 | Blake Cassels & Graydon | 50,880.4 | 148 |
2 | Osler Hoskin & Harcourt | 45,941.4 | 76 |
3 | Stikeman Elliott | 45,168.5 | 99 |
4 | Torys | 35,440.2 | 43 |
5 | McCarthy Tetrault | 35,240.1 | 63 |
6 | Burnet Duckworth & Palmer | 33,627.7 | 23 |
7 | Norton Rose | 25,800.7 | 39 |
8 | Paul, Weiss | 24,247.9 | 9 |
9 | Herbert Smith Freehills | 23,691.2 | 9 |
10 | Sullivan & Cromwell | 23,046.9 | 14 |
11 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | 18,774.1 | 2 |
12 | Bennett Jones | 18,384.3 | 25 |
13 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 18,190.7 | 6 |
14 | Morrison & Foerster | 18,025.6 | 2 |
15 | Richard A Shaw Professional | 17,665.6 | 1 |
16 | Fasken Martineau DuMoulin | 16,808.1 | 42 |
17 | Skadden | 14,908.2 | 20 |
18 | Latham & Watkins | 14,829.8 | 14 |
19 | Linklaters | 13,113.5 | 10 |
20 | King & Wood Mallesons | 11,963.0 | 7 |
21 | Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg | 11,782.0 | 38 |
22 | Sidley Austin LLP | 11,410.7 | 11 |
23 | Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson | 11,296.1 | 7 |
24 | Goodmans | 10,264.5 | 25 |
25 | Ashurst | 9,158.2 | 9 |
Total (for deals with legal advisers) | 182,375.3 | 839 |