Douglas Lawson

Doug is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Industrials Group. He is responsible for the investment banking practice focused on the packaging, plastics and chemicals industries. Doug has 20 years experience in finance and investment banking. His transaction experience includes numerous sale mandates, buy-side advisory services, leveraged buyouts, fairness opinions and financings for a wide variety of clients. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Doug was a principal in Piper Jaffray & Company’s Chicago-based Middle Market Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Doug joined BMO Capital Markets in 2006.

Doug has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Western Ontario. He qualified as a lawyer and accountant.

Timothy Dana

Timothy is a Director in BMO Capital Markets’ Packaging Group, where he focuses on corporate and investment banking for middle-market packaging industry clients and private equity groups. His extensive financial advisory and capital-raising experience has included over 40 leveraged financing and M&A mandates. His packaging-sector experience includes flexible, rigid, paper & board, labels, and contract packaging. Timothy is also a contributing editor of the monthly packaging newsletter, The Converter. Previously, he was a director in JPMorgan/Bank One’s leveraged debt capital markets group. He started his finance career at First Chicago Capital Markets as an associate in its leveraged finance group, and up through the mid-1990s, Timothy worked in many roles within his family’s Midwest-based commercial printing and fulfillment business. He joined BMO Capital Markets in 2005.

Timothy holds an MBA in finance from the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.

Laura Hubbard

Laura is an Associate in the BMO Capital Markets Commercial & Industrial Group, where she is focused on the chemicals and packaging industries. Her transaction experience includes numerous sale mandates, leveraged buyouts, and leveraged financing in the chemical industry, as well as equity financing. Laura is a co-author on several BMO Capital Markets monthly industry publications and reports.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Business, graduating with distinction from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in 2004.