Winnipeg-based Wellington West added a special-situations investment banker to focus on agriculture companies, and a mining analyst to cover base metals.

Steve Burleton joined Wellington’s capital markets team in Toronto, according to the Globe and Mail’s Streetwise blog. He spent the past 17 years at Scotia Capital and Nesbitt Burns. The firm opened an agribusiness-focused investment banking office in Chicago last year and also has an equity analyst who follows the sector.

Wellington West also hired base metals analyst Steve Parsons away from Toronto-based MGI Securities. Before MGI, Parsons was a research associate at Toronto-based GMP Securities, and prevoiusly worked as a metallurgical engineer for Placer Dome.