Preferred Share Information

The information in this section is a summary only and is qualified in its entirety by and should be read in conjunction with the more detailed information appearing in each Series' prospectus. The dividend history table below provides a link to each Series' prospectus.

Eligible Dividends
CIBC designates any and all dividends paid or deemed for Canadian federal, provincial or territorial income tax purposes to be paid on or after January 1, 2006 to be "eligible dividends", unless indicated otherwise in respect of dividends paid subsequent to this notification, and hereby notifies all recipients of such dividends of this designation.

2009 schedule of Record and Payment dates
	Record Dates	Payment Dates
Class A Series 18, 19, 23, 26-33	December 29	January 28
	March 27	April 28
	June 29	July 28
	September 28	October 28

Dividend history
Series	Ticker Symbol1	CUSIP Number	Quarterly Dividend	Initial Dividend Amount	Initial Payment Date
18 (1.1 MB)	CM.PR.P	136069721	$0.343750	$0.331507	Apr 28/98
19 (1.2 MB)	CM.PR.R	136069713	$0.309375	$0.431039	Jul 28/98
23 (70 KB)	CM.PR.A	136069648	$0.33125	$0.33125	Apr 28/01
26 (100 KB)	CM.PR.D	136069614	$0.359375	$0.367188	Apr 28/03
27 (100 KB)	CM.PR.E	136069598	$0.35000	$0.498370	Jan 28/04
28 (100 KB)		136069572	$0.020000	$0.199565	Oct 28/04
29 (100 KB)	CM.PR.G	136069564	$0.337500	$0.337500	Jan 28/05
30 (100 KB)	CM.PR.H	136069556	$0.300000	$0.471910	Jul 28/05
31 (100 KB)	CM.PR.I	136069549	$0.293750	$0.248558	Jan 28/07
32 (100 KB)	CM.PR.J	136069531	$0.281250	$0.237008	Apr 27/07
33 (450 KB)	CM.PR.K	136069499	$0.334375	$0.52401	Jan 28/09
35 (300 KB)	CM.PR.L	136069481	$0.40625	$0.37842	Apr 28/09
37 (200 KB)	CM.PR.M	136069465	$0.40625	$0.65445	Jul 28/09