Scotia Capital Inc. provides investment banking services to communications, media, technology, consumer products, real estate, forest products, infrastructure, industrial products, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placement, negotiation assistance, due diligence, and restructuring services. Additionally, it provides research, equity sales and trading, foreign exchange management, merchant banking, short-term funding, investment research, and structured leasing services. Scotia Capital was founded in 1999 and is headquartered Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Halifax, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver, Canada; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dublin, Ireland; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; and Singapore. Scotia Capital operates as a subsidiary of Bank of Nova Scotia.