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About Investment Banking in Canada

Advisory and capital-raising services for leading public and private companies.

Stifel’s investment banking professionals are committed to serving the needs of Canadian companies through specialized expertise and strong relationships within our core industries. It is our fundamental belief that clients value genuine advice and long-term relationships, and we seek to provide these across a full range of products and sectors.

We are recognized as a leader in Canadian capital markets, with a focus on Consumer & Retail, Diversified Industries, Financial Services & Financial Sponsors, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Metals & Mining, and Technology. We consistently rank among the top firms in Canada for both mergers & acquisitions advisory and common equity underwriting.

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Investment Banking Coverage

Consumer & Retail

Digital Assets

Stifel is a leading franchise in the Blockchain and Digital Assets sector providing strategic advisory and capital-raising services designed to support growth companies and their investors during all stages of their development. The Digital Assets Investment Banking Group was established in 2017 and is an experienced partner with a track record of global success. The team works closely with Stifel’s financial services vertical, KBW, on select assignments to leverage the firm’s unrivaled expertise, especially in the burgeoning area of fintech.

Diversified Industries

The Diversified Industries Investment Banking Group provides advisory and capital-raising services to companies and financial sponsors. The Group offers its clients advice and execution on mergers & acquisitions, access to public and private equity and debt capital, and other financial advisory services, including fairness opinions, in numerous industries ranging from aerospace and clean technology to engineering and logistics.

Financial Services & Financial Sponsors

The Financial Services & Financial Sponsors Investment Banking Group provides a broad range of investment banking services to Canadian financial sponsors as well as to clients in the financial services sector, including: fintech companies, banks, specialty finance firms, insurers, broker-dealers, asset managers and REITs. We offer M&A origination and advisory services, general advisory, and debt & equity financings. We also work closely with Stifel’s financial services vertical, KBW, on select assignments to leverage the firm’s unrivaled expertise.

Healthcare & Special Situations

Stifel is a leading franchise in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector providing strategic advisory and capital-raising services designed to support growth companies and their investors during all stages of their development. Our areas of expertise include: Biopharma, Cannabis, Healthcare Services, Healthcare IT, Medtech, Psychedelics, and Tools & Diagnostics. The Life Sciences & Healthcare Investment Banking Group is an experienced partner with a track record of success in Canada and abroad including cross-listing capabilities with its U.S. and UK partners.

Metals & Mining

With decades of combined experience and deep sector relationships, the Stifel Metals & Mining Investment Banking Group assists clients from multi-national producers to junior exploration companies across the commodity spectrum, with capital-raising and mergers and acquisitions advisory services in pursuit of their strategic goals.

Quebec & Eastern Canada

Our dedicated team of Quebec based Investment Banking professionals have significant vertical expertise and a deep understanding of the Quebec, Ottawa and Atlantic Canada markets. We are able to provide access to U.S. markets through our Partners at Stifel and KBW, providing clients with strategic advisory and capital raising services.

Technology

Offering a world-class combination of deep sector knowledge, strong industry relationships, and broad product expertise, our team provides clients with strategic advisory and capital-raising services designed to support growth companies and their investors during all stages of their development.

With more than 100 professionals working as an integrated team across North America and Europe, Stifel is one of the leading providers of capital-raising services to technology companies and technology-focused institutional investors.

Notable Transactions

C$52,215,000

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Jun 2025

C$6,754,169

Left Bookrunner

Private Placement

Metals & Mining

Jun 2025

C$11,500,414

Sole Bookrunner

Private Placement

Metals & Mining

Jun 2025

C$36,085,000

Sole Bookrunner

Private Placement

Metals & Mining

Jun 2025

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Technology

Apr 2025

$$850,000,000

Co-Financial Advisor

Mergers & Acquisitions

Metals & Mining

Mar 2025

C$17,400,000

Sole Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Feb 2025

C$256,914,906

Independent Valuator to the Special Committee

Mergers & Acquisitions

Technology

Feb 2025

C$52,299,355

Sole Placement Agent

Block Trade

Technology

Feb 2025

C$131,000,000

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Industrial & Environmental Services

Feb 2025

C$25,000,000

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Dec 2024

C$100,000,000

Left Bookrunner

Senior Notes

Diversified Industries

Dec 2024

C$11,418,750

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

Sep 2024

C$265,000,000

Left Bookrunner

Senior Notes

Diversified Industries

Sep 2024

C$25,000,150

Sole Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Diversified Industries

Sep 2024

C$180,000,000

Left Bookrunner

Private Placement

Metals & Mining

Aug 2024

C$20,115,000

Left Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Jul 2024

$92,500,000

Advisor to Buyer

Mergers & Acquisitions

Digital Assets

Jul 2024

C$388,000,000

Financial Advisor to the Special Committee

Fairness Opinion

Healthcare & Special Situations

Jul 2024

Sole Financial Advisor

Has Received an Investment from Frog Hawley

Consumer

Jul 2024

$175,023,950

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

May 2024

Financial Advisor

Convertible Preferred Stock

Diversified Industries

Apr 2024

$275,000,000

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Apr 2024

C$23,011,788

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Healthcare & Special Situations

Mar 2024

C$6,000,000

Follow-on Offering

Biopharma

Feb 2024

C$72,700,000

Mergers & Acquisitions

Feb 2024

Financial Advisor

Mergers & Acquisitions

Digital Assets

Feb 2024

Financial Advisor

Mergers & Acquisitions

Food & Beverage

Feb 2024

C$25,000,000

Joint Bookrunner

Private Placement

Technology

Dec 2023

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Consumer & Retail

Dec 2023

$990,000,000

Financial Advisor

Mergers & Acquisitions

Digital Assets

Nov 2023

C$287,531,625

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

Nov 2023

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Software

Oct 2023

$267,280,430

Joint Bookrunner

Private Placement

Metals & Mining

Aug 2023

C$165,000,000

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Consumer Products

Jul 2023

$83,500,000

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Paper & Forest Products, Diversified Industries

Jun 2023

$34,931,250

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Diversified Industries

May 2023

$150,314,500

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

May 2023

C$17,500,000

Sole Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Mar 2023

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Electronics & Industrial Technology

Jan 2023

$100,000,000

Financial Advisor

Has Sold Assets & Equipment

Technology

Dec 2022

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Diversified Industries

Dec 2022

C$11,500,000

Sole Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Medtech

Dec 2022

C$175,005,000

Co-Lead Manager

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Oct 2022

C$125,002,500

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Sep 2022

C$100,000,000

Co-Manager

Senior Notes

Sep 2022

C$13,800,000

Mergers & Acquisitions

Diversified Industries

Aug 2022

$260,000,000

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Healthcare Services

Aug 2022

C$145,000,000

Financial Advisor to the Special Committee to the Board of Directors

Refinancing

Jul 2022

C$5,010,000

Left Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Jun 2022

C$7,287,000

Sole Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

Jun 2022

C$20,000,000

Left Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Jun 2022

C$17,047,000

Co-Manager

Convertible Notes

May 2022

C$34,511,565

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

HealthTech

May 2022

$100,500,000

Fairness Opinion

Asset Sale

Cannabis

May 2022

C$32,343,743

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

Mar 2022

C$25,311,500

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Mar 2022

C$200,000,000

Co-Manager

Senior Notes

Feb 2022

$470,000,000

Advisor to Chifeng

Mergers & Acquisitions

Metals & Mining

Jan 2022

C$33,532,415

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Jan 2022

C$42,542,500

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Jan 2022

C$21,000,000

Sole Bookrunner

Private Placement

Technology

Jan 2022

Financial Advisor

Has Received a Minority Investment

Technology

Jan 2022

C$195,000,000

Advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Fiore Gold

Fairness Opinion

Metals & Mining

Jan 2022

C$230,071,000

Co-Manager

Follow-on Offering

Nov 2021

C$65,000,000

Co-Lead Manager

Convertible Notes

HealthTech

Nov 2021

C$20,000,000

Sole Bookrunner

Convertible Debentures

Diversified Industries

Nov 2021

C$22,000,000

Sole Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Diversified Industries

Nov 2021

$37,260,000

Advisor to Buyer

Mergers & Acquisitions

Diversified Industries

Nov 2021

C$26,101,250

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Nov 2021

C$100,020,000

Sole Bookrunner

Private Placement

Technology

Nov 2021

C$25,875,000

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Nov 2021

C$49,831,250

Left Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Metals & Mining

Oct 2021

C$7,004,400

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Healthcare & Special Situations

Oct 2021

C$17,307,500

Joint Bookrunner

Follow-on Offering

Consumer & Retail

Oct 2021

Currency volume represents full credit to each underwriter. All transaction announcements appear as a matter of record only. Stifel collectively refers to Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and other affiliated broker-dealer subsidiaries of Stifel Financial Corp.

Meet Our Team

Harris Fricker

President, Stifel Canada

Toronto

Gary Skene

Managing Director, Head of Investment Banking, Stifel Canada

Toronto

Matthew Gaasenbeek

Vice Chairman, Managing Director, Stifel Canada

Toronto

Rosemary Teixeira

Managing Director, Head of ECM, Stifel Canada

Toronto

Paul Bissett

Managing Director

Toronto

Stephen Delaney

Managing Director

Toronto

Pierre Laliberte

Managing Director

Toronto

Derek Lithwick

Managing Director

Montreal

Petar Zelic

Managing Director

Toronto

Matthew Jackson

Director

Toronto

David Roderick

Director

Toronto

George Sabbouh

Director

Toronto

Milton Chan

Vice President

Toronto

Shu Wei Zhang

Vice President

Montreal

Important Disclosures

Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. is a member of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization, the Canadian Investor Protection Fund, the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange.

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