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Our services integrate seamlessly with your existing team, forming direct connections with your finance, legal, marketing, and operational groups.

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Capital Markets Advisory

Capital Markets Strategy
Market Coaching
Market Connect
Investor Perception Studies

Strategic Communications

Corporate Communications
Crisis Communications
Design & Branding
Digital & AI Technologies

Investor Engagement

Strategic Investor Relations
Financial Reporting
ESG & Sustainability
Investment Grade Events

Complex Inflection Points

Financings and IPOs
Market Turnaround
Shareholder Activism
Transaction Packaging
We provide investor relations, corporate communications, and capital markets advisory to

Clients at Every Stage

Private Companies

We help private companies position themselves for success through sound investor communications, enhanced stakeholder engagement, and access to private funding options with the help of our sell-side partners.

Initial Public Offerings

We help companies looking to go public deploy investment grade communications, systems, and collateral. Then we help them identify and engage the relevant relationships they need on both the sell-side and buy-side of the capital markets to ensure their first public financing is a success.

Public Companies

We provide a full suite of modern investor and strategic communication services to public companies interested in unlocking their full potential in the capital markets. We help management teams meet the varied and complex challenges and regulatory demands they face as a public entity.

Sectors

Our systems based approach to the capital markets has successfully propelled performance across every sector we have worked in.

MCI Sectors

Energy & Resources

Energy Services
Mining & Metals
Oil and Gas E&P
Renewable Energy
Resource Royalties

Health Sciences

BioPharma
Biotechnology
Health Services
Health Technology

Industrials

Aerospace
Construction Services
Engineering Services
Heavy Equipment
Power & Utilities

Technology

AI Infrastructure
Data Centers
Software
Telecom
We do more than talk about unlocking shareholder value, we create

Capital Market Success Stories

Our proven systems based approach has helped companies across the TSX, NYSE, and NASDAQ.

2.5 Times Oversubscribed

We supported the 2024 transformation of Western (TSXV:WI) into an insurance and investments holding company. By targeting and engaging early with relevant investors, we helped support a financing that was 2.5x oversubscribed.

IR Impact Magazine Awards

Best Investor Relations

Ranked eighth overall, Stantec (NYSE/TSX:STN) received IR Impact Magazine’s 2022 award for best investor relations in the mid-cap category after successfully navigating a hostile investor, the launch of their growth plan, COVID, and the acquisition of Cardno.

IR Impact Magazine Awards

Best Sustainability Communications

Ranked first overall, Stantec (NYSE/TSX:STN) received IR Impact Magazine’s 2022 award for best sustainability communications following our changes to their reporting framework. Specifically, we started regularly communicating objective ESG rankings and reporting revenue related to UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Stantec Investor Relations

155% Share Price Improvement

Evaluating and addressing market misperceptions, addressing the concerns of a hostile investor by launching a sound capital allocation strategy, managing investor expectations through COVID, and clearly communicating the company’s track record of sustainability success drove a 155% gain at Stantec (NYSE/TSX:STN)

Delivered award winning investor relations for Parkland during their dramatic capital markets turnaround involving the launch of the Penny Plan

197% Share Price Improvement

Articulating and executing a clear growth strategy through the Parkland Penny Plan, adding the coverage of eight sell-side analysts, managing communications for nine acquisitions and $1.2 billion in corporate actions, while measuring and reporting progress against the Penny Plan helped drive a 197% improvement in share price during our mandate.

IR Impact Magazine Awards

Top 50 Placement

Parkland (TSX:PKI) rose 112 places (from 143 to 31) in IR Impact Magazine’s ranking of investor relations programs based on spontaneous responses from capital markets professionals in their annual perception study.

Oilweek magazine annual report awards

Annual Report Awards

Grantierra Energy (TSX:GTE) won OilWeek’s 2012 award for best annual report following a complete redesign of their investor presentation, annual report, and reporting materials.

Accolades from the Capital Markets

‘They helped their client make progress reaching out to investors, and better tailoring a message that really resonates’

Buy Side Participant in IR Impact Magazine's 2022 Perception Study

‘Overall, they have a good approach to IR. They always find time to follow up and have supported senior management in providing the big picture.’

Sell Side Participant in IR Impact Magazine's 2022 Perception Study

‘A combination of their in-depth conference calls, detailed presentations, events between quarters and the new IRO has brought them to the forefront in terms of IR this year’

Sell Side Participant in IR Impact Magazine's 2022 Perception Study

‘The best investor relations professional I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with.’

Mike Lambert, Previous CFO for Mark's Work Wearhouse, Canadian Pacific, The Forzani Group, Parkland Fuel, Black Diamond Group

‘Introduced a very helpful monthly investor newsletter that looks at key business drivers. I’m not sure anyone else does that.’

Sell side participant in IR Magazine's 2013 Top 50 perception study

‘We get regular presentations and email updates which really keeps us in the loop. They send out monthly information on business drivers and other external factors that affect its business which is also very helpful’

Buy side participant in IR Magazine's 2013 perception study

‘Produces events that are top-notch, more like something you’d expect from a mega-cap company.’

Buy Side Participant in IR Magazine's 2012 Perception Study
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MCI Capital Markets and AxialBridge to Deliver Integrated De-risking and Capital Access Platform for Life Science Companies

MCI and AxialBridge to Deliver Integrated De-risking and Capital Access Platform for Life Science Companies

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The MCI – AxialBridge partnership will make complex science investable by providing a single, coordinated pathway from bench to bedside to balance sheet.

MCI Capital Markets Presents for the TMX Alpha Catalyst Series - Part of the TSX IR Accelerator 2026

TSX IR Accelerator 2026

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MCI Capital Markets is proud to be a presenting partner for TMX Group‘s launch of Alpha Catalyst: TSX IR Accelerator 2026 for Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange companies.

Strategies for when Activists Investors are Stalking You

How do you address an activist investor stalking your company?

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Are you being stalked by an activist investor quietly accumulating your stock? This guide shows how to respond. From identifying activists early, using stock surveillance to monitor their activity, and engaging with activists constructively, learn how preparation, open communication, and proactive strategy tweaks can turn an activist threat into an opportunity for positive change.

Post Davos 2026 Investor Strategies

In the Aftermath of Davos 2026, How Should Companies Adapt Their Investor Strategy?

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Companies must adapt their capital markets and investor strategies post Davos 2026. Davos clarified the risks investors must now actively price, from geopolitical exposure and trade volatility to capital allocation discipline. This article explains what changed at Davos and how global companies should adapt their disclosure and capital markets strategy to maintain credibility, manage investor expectations, and protect valuation.

The Death of Sustainability and ESG

Is Sustainability Dead or Has the Market Simply Moved On?

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Is sustainability dead? Not exactly. While ESG narratives and public commitments have pulled back, capital markets still rely on sustainability data through risk, governance, and financial lenses. This article explains why sustainability has reset, how regulators slowed momentum, and what investors, banks, analysts, and IR teams still need today.

How Should Public Companies Prepare to Raise Capital in the Public Markets?

How To Prepare to Raise Capital in the Public Markets

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Raising capital in the public markets can unlock new growth for an established company. However, success requires diligent preparation and strategy. This post outlines how public companies can prepare effectively – from defining the use of proceeds and planning the raise, choosing between equity vs debt, tailoring investor communications, building key relationships, and executing a capital raise with confidence.

Stock Splits and Consolidations (Reverse stock splits)

Stock Splits and Consolidations – The Risks and Benefits to Capital Market Performance

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Stock splits and reverse stock splits do not create value on their own. However, they play an important role in how public companies manage liquidity, accessibility, and investor perception. This article explains when stock splits and share consolidation make sense, the risks involved, and how boards and management teams should frame these decisions within a broader capital markets strategy.

Returning Capital to Shareholders

Returning Capital to Shareholders: Dividends, Special Payouts, and Share Buybacks

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Returning capital to shareholders is a key part of a public company’s capital markets strategy. After funding growth and operations, management must decide how to give excess cash back to shareholders as part of their value creation plan. In this post, we explain the main ways of returning capital to shareholders – regular dividends, special…

Implementing AI in your capital markets function

Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Your Capital Markets Program

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Artificial intelligence has already become table stakes for corporate capital market functions. Laggards in adopting AI are already watching their valuation lag behind companies that are taking advantage of the efficiency, scale, and enhanced engagement made possible by AI.

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The capital markets can be bewildering, even to the most experienced management teams. We believe that most executives are committed to maximizing shareholder value, but poorly executed programs can lead to lost value, reputational damage, employee attrition, deal failure, and even shareholder revolt.

MCI has helped its clients address complex challenges in the capital markets to unlock billions of dollars in market value through a proven system that delivers sound messaging, branding, and engagement strategies. Over the past two decades our team has been involved in $5.7 billion in corporate actions that include $3.1 billion in acquisitions and $2.6 billion in financings-all successful.

MCI can help you resolve unfair valuation discounts and get the most out of your company’s public listing. Contact us today to engage our data driven, results focused process to unleash real progress.

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