Overview

RBC Capital Markets' Global Forest Products Group combines deep industry knowledge and capital markets expertise to provide our clients with superior advice and transaction execution capabilities. The Global Forest Products Group comprises dedicated Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Credit professionals in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and London, with research headed out of Vancouver by RBC Capital Markets' highly ranked forest products analyst Mark Bishop.
 
We provide a full suite of financial and advisory services to our Canadian clients, including corporate lending, equity and debt financing and mergers and acquisitions advisory services. Internationally, we are positioned to leverage our knowledge of the Canadian and global forest products industries as an advisor to global forest products companies. 
 
The quality of our advice and execution capabilities is reflected in RBC Capital Markets' consistent ranking as one of Canada's top forest products M&A advisors and financiers.  Since 1998, RBC Capital Markets has advised on 20 M&A transactions representing a combined transaction value of over C$24 billion.  These transactions included some of the largest M&A transactions to have ever occurred in the Canadian forest products industry, such as the amalgamation of Domtar and Weyerhaeuser's Fine Paper business, the acquisition of MacMillan Bloedel by Weyerhaeuser Co. and the acquisition of Donohue by Abitibi-Consolidated.  Recent notable transactions include Canfor's spin-out of its NBSK pulp assets to Canfor Pulp Income Fund, Mercer International's acquisition of the Celgar pulp mill and Canfor Corporation's acquisition of Slocan Forest Products.