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Come to BMO M&M. They really aren't that bad and for some reason gets a bad rep on the street. A bunch of nice people work there.

Heard there's an opening, so feel free to apply.

 

As you mentioned, BMO M&M is the obvious top group worldwide for this. Not only do they do very well in North America, but also very well represented in LatAm and Africa deals. 

Then you've got some more of the usual suspects from Canada too. Scotiabank has a pretty good rep for M&M, but National seems to be getting more of the deal flow a bit more recently. CIBC is good too, a bit more represented recently on some of the larger deals though - lower volume, higher deal sizes. CIBC and National get more local deals in the Americas and don't get to work on international deals as much as BMO

Canaccord, and one of its subsidiaries (forgot the name) is ridiculously underrated. While they are absolute beasts in financing transactions, they are absolutely cracked when it comes to M&A too, and get to work on more international deals than any other of the B5 banks except BMO. This is especially true in Africa. While I don't have exact numbers, it seems as if BMO and Canaccord get more deal flow in Africa than any other bank.

Rothschild is strong in the EMEA space, working on larger deal sizes with less volume it seems. They also have a mining office in Toronto, but I believe the cream of their deals are executed out of London.

Macquarie is very strong in mining too, don't know the details tbh.

Looking at Toronto teams in specific, you've got BMO, National, CIBC, Scotia, Canaccord. Globals such as Rothschild and Barclays also have dedicated mining teams based out of Toronto. Then some smaller boutiques like Haywood, Cormark, etc also do mining deals, but they mainly work on very small sized M&A deals and financing transactions.

 
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National recently poached a bunch of MDs from Scotia to build up their Mining group. Would expect Scotia to drop in the coming years because of this.

 

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