Debt and Equity Underwriting
Debt Underwriting
CIBC World Markets is actively involved in the debt capital financing needs of its Canadian and international clients in domestic and offshore markets. We have strong origination and structuring expertise, and global distribution capabilities, enabling us to place new issues with investors around the world. We are actively involved in the underwriting and placement of products.
CIBC World Markets debt capabilities include some of the following:
- Lending
- Advisory/restructuring
- Money market instruments, including commercial paper
- Investment grade securities
- Securitization, including asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities
- Structured finance, including collateralized loan obligations, collateralized debt obligations, and credit derivatives
- International markets origination - sovereign and corporate bonds; European/U.S. and global issues
- Private placements
Equity Underwriting
CIBC World Markets Equity Capital Markets group provides a broad and diverse product offering for its investors, including common shares, trust units, retail structured products, convertible debentures, private placements and preferred shares.
Our Canadian team has consistently been a dominant equity underwriter in Canada by virtually every metric, including deals led, deal participation and total amount underwritten. We also benefit from the most extensive retail network in Canada for new product distribution.

