Financial Institutions
The wholesale banking business at CIBC is recognized as one of the leading providers of advisory services to financial institutions. From M&A advisory work to innovative financing structures to comprehensive research, our team has helped make our clients' growth and financing strategies a success.
Our Financial Institutions group provides comprehensive M&A and advisory services and a wide range of financing solutions and products. Our experience includes the following sectors:
- Life insurance and P&C insurance
- Asset managers, including: mutual fund managers, institutional money managers and financial planning organizations
- Deposit-taking institutions
- Consumer, commercial and specialty finance
Expertise
To meet client needs, our professionals work closely with colleagues in debt capital markets, credit capital markets, securitization, equity capital markets, merchant banking and derivatives. We have extensive experience in a wide range of areas:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Divestitures
- Privatizations and other public sector assignments
- Demutualizations
- Underwritings of equity, equity-linked notes, options and warrants, and investment grade debt

