• Corporate Recognitions
• Equity
• Oil and Gas M&A
• Debt Underwriting
• Foreign Exchange
• ScotiaMocatta
• Securities Lending
• Derivatives
• Infrastructure, Power and Project Finance
• Mining
• Scotiabank

Corporate Recognitions

• Scotia Capital wins Three Global 2008 TopGun Banker Recognitions.
• Best Investment Bank in Canada for 2008, Global Finance.
• Among ”Bloomberg 20" most successful global investment banks for 2008, Bloomberg Markets.

Equity

• Ranked #1 for joint credit to lead and co-lead (fiscal 2009).
• Scotia Capital led some of the largest equity financing transactions in Canadian history:
  • Largest Common Equity offering (Barrick Gold)
  • Largest Preferred Shares offering (TransCanada)
  • Largest Private Placement (CIC)
  • Largest Public/ Private Placement (Excludes self-led) (Manulife Financial)
  • Largest IPO in 2009 (Genworth MI Canada)
  • Largest Financial Services offering in 2009 (Manulife Financial)
  • Largest Industrials Offering in 2009 (Canadian Pacific Railway)
  • Largest Oil & Gas Offering in 2009 (Crescent Point Energy Group)
• Ranked #1 for preferred share sales in Canada (2008), The Globe and Mail.
• Equity Deal of the Year award for 2008 in the Americas for Manulife, The Banker.
• #1 for 2008 stock sales in Canada, excluding offerings by parent banks, The Globe and Mail.

Oil and Gas M&A (Scotia Waterous)

• #1 Oil and gas M&A firm in the world for 2008 by number of transactions and 2nd by deal value, with US$20 billion in completed deals, Bloomberg.

Debt Underwriting

• #1 in Canadian Corporate Debt Underwriting (Bonus), for a second year in a row in 2009, the Bloomberg Underwriter League Tables.
• #1 on the Quality Index in Canada in 2009 by an independent third party market survey for the third year in a row.
  • #1 in the DCM Specialist Capability
  • #1 Likelihood of being Recommended to other Issuers
  • #1 Most Creative Debt Capital Markets Ideas
  • #1 Most Competitive Bond Pricing
  • #1 Best Risk Management Advice

Foreign Exchange

• Best Foreign Exchange Bank in Canada for the sixth consecutive year (2010), Global Finance.
• FX team: ranked as the Best Canadian Currency Forecaster, one of the Top 2 Global Leaders in its Top FX Forecasters Ranking and ranked #1 globally by currency pairs for Euro/Swiss and Dollar/Swiss, Bloomberg Markets (November 2009).
• #1 on the Quality Index, #1 in overall Market Penetration, and #1 in Sales Quality and Research, for a second year in a row, by independent third party market survey of Foreign Exchange Services in Canada (2009).

ScotiaMocatta

• Honored for the 3rd year in a row by the Gem and Jewelry Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) for outstanding performance and contribution to export trade.
• Best Bullion Bank (2009), Bombay Bullion Association.

Securities Lending

• #1 in the world for service during the recent credit crisis in the global Equity Lending Survey, isf Magazine (2008).

Derivatives

• #1 on the Quality Index, #1 as a Lead Dealer, #1 in overall Market Penetration, #1 in Best After-Sales Service, and #1 in Creative Ideas, in Canada for the seventh straight year (2009), by an independent third party survey provider.

Infrastructure, Power and Project Finance

• Project Finance Deal of the Year - The Americas for Capital Beltway (2009), The Banker.
• Best in Infrastructure Globally (2008), Global Finance.
• 5 Deal of the Year awards from Project Finance magazine for 2008 in the following categories:
  
  • North American PPP Deal of the Year (A30)
  • North American Oil & Gas Deal of the Year (Southern Lights)
  • North American Single Asset Power Deal of the Year (Kleen Power)
  • North American Project Bond Deal of the Year (Capital Beltway)
  • Latin American Acquisition Deal of the Year (Aerodom)
• Transport Deal of the Year for Capital Beltway (2008), Infrastructure Journal.
• Most Innovative Non-Traditional Public Finance Transaction for Capital Beltway (2008), Bond Buyer.

Mining

• One of our Mining analysts ranked #1 in the Best on the Street Analysts survey 2009, Wall Street Journal. Another achieved TopGun standing in 2009, Brendan Wood survey.

Scotiabank

• Scotiabank named the top FX provider in Costa Rica, Jamaica and Peru by Global Finance Magazine.
• One of the 10 best performing financial services firms in the world (2009), Oliver Wyman Group. Annual State of the Financial Services Industry.