M&A Advisory

CIBC boasts unparalleled breadth and depth in its M&A franchise. Our M&A professionals work closely with dedicated, industry-specific investment banking groups to provide the highest level of integrated services for our clients. Our M&A capabilities allow our clients to go beyond their domestic borders to meet their strategic and financial goals.

Expertise

Merger, acquisition and divesture activities remain vital strategic alternatives as companies across all sectors strive to maximize shareholder value. In response, CIBC offers comprehensive and customized solutions through our dedicated senior M&A professionals, sponsor coverage officers, industry expertise and well-balanced equity distribution capabilities.

Our M&A products include the following:

• Acquisitions
• Sales
• Divestitures
• Recapitalizations
• Fairness opinions
• Strategic defence
• Reorganizations

In Canada, we offer clients the most extensive transaction experience of any Canadian financial institution regardless of the size of the transaction. We maintain the leading position in a number of areas, including income-fund M&A and take-over defence.

In Europe, we are highly experienced at advising both corporate and private equity clients on a broad range of transaction opportunities. Our expertise in Europe includes domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and divestitures both in public and private context, restructurings, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and private equity investments.

With offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, our strong international presence enables us to draw on our firm-wide resources to ensure a successful transaction for each of our clients worldwide.