David Atkinson

David joined Raymond James in 2016 from the Royal Bank of Canada where he was a member of the bank's U.S. Strategy and M&A team. While at RBC, David was a key member of the deal team that executed the bank's $5.0 billion acquisition of City National Corporation. Prior to RBC, David was a member of the Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Bank in New York, where he focused on financial technology, asset management and specialty finance. Prior to UBS, David was a member of the government affairs team at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Washington, DC., where he focused on financial services matters. David is a graduate of the MBA program at the Ivey Business School and the JD program at Western University, and he obtained his BA from the University of the South (Sewanee), where he graduated magna cum laude, with honors and distinction.