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IBK Capital Corp. is an independent, privately owned investment banking firm which offers a full range of services. Such services include, among others, merger, acquisition and divestiture advisory services, business valuations, fairness opinions, takeover defense planning, project financing and private placements of equity and debt instruments. Our corporate objective is to provide the highest quality independent financial advisory services to clients.

IBK Capital was founded by a group of experienced professionals who had previously worked for many years as investment bankers with Merrill Lynch Canada Inc. The team is proud of its expertise and has a solid track record in the Canadian investment banking community. Our core competencies lie in raising capital for emerging companies and assisting them in achieving their capital markets and corporate development objectives.

Since its inception in February 1989, IBK Capital has established an enviable track record as an independent Canadian financial advisory firm, having played a role in transactions with a combined value of approximately $4.2 billion. IBK Capital successfully completed many financial advisory engagements including capital raising assignments for a large number of senior and junior companies, internationally. Companies serviced by IBK Capital are active in the Natural Resources Sector (Gold, precious gems, base metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, alternative fuels such as peat) and the Technology Sector (animation, semi-conductors, telecommunications and environmental sciences) and the Renewable Energy Sector (biomass, solar and wind). IBK Capital provides financial advisory services to public companies, and to private emerging companies which includes assisting them in raising first and second round financings and the most effective way to become listed on a recognised stock exchange in North America.