In just eight months, the business of investment banking has gone from high-flying to just plain trying for bankers who make their living helping companies raise money or buy competitors. Last year started busy, but by August, business had dried up, as the Greek crisis and the U.S. debt-ceiling debate spooked executives and investors. (DEBORAH BAIC/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
Big Deals
Canada a bright spot in sluggish year for corporate deals
Bay Street is doing better than Wall Street in everything from stock sales to loans to bond underwriting
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International deals by Canadian banks
Since early 2010, Canadian banks have done billions of dollars worth of international deals – a flurry of activity that has slowed, but not stopped.
Hits and misses
Blockbuster deals of the past five years: Did they pan out?
The hits and many misses among the largest – and most controversial – Canadian transactions
Canadian deal maker winners for 2011
Last year's biggest Canadian deals, and the people who made them happen, by industry
2011's biggest deal makers
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Pictures: Canada's top 10 mergers and acquisitions of 2011
Merger madness: Barrick Gold's acquisition of Equinox Minerals led the pack
New frontiers open for Canadian dealers
Their work on billion-dollar transactions outside the country illustrates a growing reach
Big deals
Going hostile: The rules on unsolicited deals may be changing
'If we have a robust, open discussion, hopefully we’ll come up with a better result than we have now'
Big deals
Insatiable appetite for yield drives deal making
Investors and institutions hungry for dividends allows high-yielding companies to fund acquisitions
