Overview

The Diversified Industries Group has an extensive banking presence throughout North America. Our portfolio includes coverage of leading public corporations and business trusts as well as private companies across five key business sectors:

• Conglomerates
• Consumer and Retail
• Healthcare and services
• Industrial
• Other Diversified services

At RBC Capital Markets, we have a dedicated group of professional relationship bankers that deliver a full range of products and services geared to satisfying the needs of our corporate clientele. We offer a full suite of financial services, including public and private equity and debt financing, M&A advisory, acquisition and core bank lending, project/leveraged finance as well as foreign exchange and other hedging products.

We pride ourselves on building and maintaining long-term relationships with Canada's largest and well known companies such as Brascan, CN Railway, CP Railway, Dofasco, George Weston, McCain Foods, Maple Leaf Foods, Nova Chemicals, Shoppers Drug Mart, and the Thomson Corporation just to name a few, as well as many smaller growth companies.
 

Highlights

Acquisition of MOVA Pharmaceuticals by Patheon Inc. (2004 - C$441 million) Follow-on offering by Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (2004 - C$165 million) Secondary offering of common shares by Norbord Inc. (2004 - C$382.5 million) Initial public offering of The Brick Income Fund (2004 - C$280 million) High Yield debt offering by IPSCO Inc. (2003 - US$200.0 million)

As part of RBC's strategic U.S. expansion, the Diversified Industries Group will continue to expand its platform of services to numerous companies including cross-border activities that build upon the existing strengths of our strong Canadian franchise.  We work closely with the Consumer Group, the Healthcare Group, and the Leveraged Finance Group, which focuses on coverage of financial sponsor firms.