Barclays announced the appointment of Ryan Voegeli as Head of Investment Banking for Canada. Mr. Voegeli will be based in Toronto. Mr. Voegeli has twenty years of investment banking experience, and joins Barclays from CIBC Capital Markets where he was Head of Global Diversified Industries Investment Banking.

In this role he led a highly successful team spanning Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Chicago and San Francisco. Prior to joining CIBC in 2011, Mr. Voegeli was Head of Canadian Telecom, Media & Technology Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Throughout his career, Mr. Voegeli has performed key roles in a vast number of landmark transactions, including advising the Special Committee of Shaw Communications in connection with its $26 billion sale to Rogers Communications, and advising Shaw Communications on its $1.6 billion acquisition of Wind Mobile.

He advised George Weston Limited in connection with its sale of Weston Foods, and Loblaw in connection with its $845 million acquisition of Lifemark Health Group, as well as on the $460 million IPO of Choice Properties out of Loblaw. Mr. Voegeli also advised TELUS on its $2.9 billion acquisition of Lifeworks, and GFL on its $5.125 billion recapitalization led by BC Partners and OTPP. He also has extensive experience in Initial Public Offerings, having advised as Joint Bookrunner on the $1.4 billion IPO of TELUS International, Joint Bookrunner on the USD 531 million IPO of Ceridian, Joint Bookrunner on the $460 million IPO of Aritzia, and Joint Bookrunner on the $380 million IPO of Hudson?s Bay Company.