Canaccord Adams (formerly Adams Harkness) provides equities research, sales, and trading services, and investment banking services such as securities underwriting, sales, and trading, mergers and acquisitions advice, and industry research. Formed in 1969 through the merger of Weston W. Adams & Company and Harkness & Hill, the company specializes in the technology, metals, mining, life sciences, and real estate, and financial services sectors. Canaccord Adams also acts as a market maker for small- and mid-cap stocks in the US, Canada, and Europe. Canaccord Capital acquired the firm in 2006.