The Blackstone Group L.P. is a global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services. The Company is an independent alternative asset manager with assets under management of $102.43 billion, as of December 31, 2007. Its alternative asset management businesses... more

Lehman Brothers First Trust Income Opportunity Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund's investment objective is to seek high total return (income plus capital appreciation). The Fund pursues its investment objective by investing its assets... more

Houlihan Lokey, an international investment bank, provides a wide range of services, including mergers and acquisitions, financing, financial opinions and advisory services, and financial restructuring. Houlihan Lokey has ranked among the top 10 M&A advisors in the U.S. for the past seven... more

A division of BMO Financial Group, BMO Spend & Payment Solutions (formerly BMO ePurchasing Solutions) is a leading commercial card, spend and payment solutions provider in North America. BMO Spend & Payment Solutions' products are widely used by Corporations, non-profit and government... more

Piper Jaffray Companies is a middle-market investment bank and institutional securities firm, serving the needs of middle-market corporations, private equity groups, public entities, nonprofit clients and institutional investors. The Company provides a set of products and services,... more

AdMedia Partners is an independent M&A financial advisory firm serving digital and traditional media, marketing and information businesses. Founded in 1990 by former advertising, media, and financial executives, the firm focuses on mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, and... more

Duff & Phelps Corporation is a provider of independent financial advisory and investment banking services. It principally supports client needs in financial and tax valuation (especially in the context of business combinations and other corporate transactions), mergers and acquisitions... more

Greenhill & Co., Inc. (Greenhill) is an independent investment banking firm that provides financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and similar corporate finance matters, and manages merchant banking funds and commits capital to those funds. Greenhill acts for... more

FBR Financial Services Partners, L.P. (FSP) is a private equity fund whose sole investment objective is to provide strategic, medium-term equity capital to growing financial services companies. The institutional investors committed to FSP include major banks, insurance companies and... more

CIBC World Markets is the global marketing name for CIBC's investment banking affiliates and subsidiaries around the world. The CIBC World Markets companies offer a full range of investment services to governments, corporations, institutions and private clients worldwide.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment firm offering investment banking, asset management, equity research, institutional and private brokerage, and private capital to individual, institutional, and issuing clients. Since 1935, we have been committed to helping... more

Marlin & Associates (M&A) is a specialized advisory and consulting firm focused exclusively on providing a limited number of highly specialized, transaction-related services to US and international middle-market firms in technology, information, media and business-services. Our focus is... more

Hambrecht & Quist has been a leader in financing the New Economy since 1968. H&Q provides entrepreneurs and their companies with access to capital and financial expertise, and provides investors with access to opportunities for growth. In the last four quarters, H&Q has raised over $12... more

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore) is an investment banking company. The Company is a holding company and its sole material asset is a controlling equity interest in Evercore LP. It provides advisory services to multinational corporations on significant mergers, acquisitions, divestitures,... more

A global leader with close to 200 years of experience, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) helps many of the world's most sophisticated mutual funds, investment managers, banks and insurance companies achieve their international business objectives. With approximately $1.5 trillion of assets in... more

Lincoln Partners is an investment bank specializing in mergers & acquisition services, and private capital raising. Lincoln Partners focuses on select industries including automotive, aerospace, building products, business services, chemicals, consumer products, engineered products,... more

Goldsmith Agio Helms (www.agio.com) is one of the nation's leading independent investment banking firms providing sophisticated corporate finance advisory services to middle-market businesses. The firm's services include mergers and acquisitions, private placements of debt and equity,... more

The Ziegler Companies, Inc. (symbol: ZGCO) is a growth-oriented boutique investment banking and investment services firm with a primary focus in the healthcare, senior living and church and school sectors. Operations encompass capital markets (capital advisory services, bond underwriting,... more

vFinance.com is the web's leading Financial Opportunity Exchange. The site offers FREE, open and equal access to investments and investors. By providing an open marketplace of financial services, proprietary business development tools, searchable databases and daily news in one... more

Founded in 2001, Avondale Partners, LLC is an independent investment banking firm providing objective, high quality equity research, as well as sales and trading capabilities to the institutional marketplace. We also provide investment banking services including mergers and acquisitions... more

Capital.com, Inc. is a business finance portal where premier financing sources compete to provide receivable and inventory financing, machinery and equipment loans and leasing, real estate and construction financing, subordinated debt and equity financing for growth, acquisitions,... more

Broadview International is a leading global M&A advisor focused on the IT, communications, healthcare technology and media industries. The firm's network of over 150 employees and its affiliates operate across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For 30 years, Broadview has provided... more

Since 1989 Kaulkin Ginsberg has provided owners, buyers and executives of service businesses with the advice, expertise and information needed to grow or sell their companies. Our strategic advisory services are the most recognized source of M&A, information, and strategic advice for... more

The Securities Investor Protection Corporation is the U.S. investor's first line of defense in the event a brokerage firm fails, owing customer cash and securities that are missing from customer accounts. SIPC either acts as trustee or works with an independent court-appointed trustee in... more

Updata Capital is a leading investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions for the information technology (IT) industry. Since its inception in 1987, Updata has managed over 200 merger and acquisition transactions for software, e-commerce, internet, and IT professional... more

Chanin Capital Partners, a Duff & Phelps company, was founded in 1984 to provide companies and their stakeholders with financial advisory services. Hard work, great minds and deep experience set us apart from our peers. In just two decades, we have helped more than 300 clients achieve... more

The McLean Group is a middle-market investment bank providing merger and acquisition, business valuation, capital formation, executive advisory and litigation support services. Its focus is on serving middle-market businesses generating between $5 million and $300 million in revenues. The... more

SG Cowen is one of the leading firms in Health Care, Technology, Consumer, Aerospace & Defense, and Media & Communications equity research. We offer extensive and focused after market trading services with leadership among market makers in Health Care and Technology stocks. We serve a... more

FBR Financial Services Partners, L.P. (FSP) is a private equity fund whose sole investment objective is to provide strategic, medium-term equity capital to growing financial services companies. The institutional investors committed to FSP include major banks, insurance companies and... more

Established in 2001, Rutberg & Company, LLC is a research-centric investment bank focused exclusively on providing M&A advisory services to both public and private companies, and raising mid to late stage capital for industry leading emerging growth companies in the wireless and digital... more

DecisionPoint International, LLC is a boutique investment bank offering global merger and acquisition advisory services, including buy and sell-side assignments, to leading middle-market technology firms.

Formed in 1988, Denver-based GMB is one of the nation's leading investment banks focused on the middle market. Our firm provides specialized expertise in mergers and acquisitions, private financings and financial advisory services. Since inception, GMB and its senior professionals have... more

Pacific Crest Securities is the leading investment bank focused exclusively on technology. The firm is a full-service investment bank, with over 120 employees, providing research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking services to technology investors and companies... more

Providential Holdings, Inc. (PHI) through its wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries engages in a number of business activities, including merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory services, independent energy, import and export, real estate development, fund management, and... more

We are a diverse group of professionals, each with a unique knowledge base and skill set, yet united in a common purpose: to succeed, as individuals and as a team, by achieving superior outcomes for our clients. Our success is rooted in culture that values people and rewards their... more

Brown Gibbons Lang & Company is a leading independent investment bank serving middle market companies and their owners throughout the U.S. and internationally. BGL's professionals are experts in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity placements, and financial restructurings. BGL is the... more

Edgeview Partners is a leading independent investment bank focused exclusively on serving the unique needs of the middle market. Edgeview Partners¹ professionals have focused their careers on serving the middle market and have advised on more than 250 completed middle market transactions.

MidMarket Capital, Inc. is an investment banking firm focused on providing strategic advice and transaction services to owners of middle-market companies. Whether you are looking for outstanding results in a succession planning exit, or finding strategic buyers for healthy, rapidly... more

Peter J. Solomon Company (PJSC) is a leading independent investment banking firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1989, the Firm provides owners, chief executives, and senior management of public and private companies with strategic and financial advice that generally results in... more

GulfStar delivers premium value for middle market business owners. GulfStar Group is a leading middle market investment bank headquartered in Houston with an office in Dallas. Our clients are typically business owners of companies with revenue between $25 million and $250 million.... more

Software Equity Group is an investment bank and M&A advisory serving the software and technology sectors. Founded in 1992, our firm has represented and guided private companies throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and Israel. We have advised... more

Petsky Prunier is pleased to announce the sale of Brand Connections to Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a New York-based private equity firm focused on the media, information and education industries, in partnership with Brand Connections' management team. The company was previously a portfolio... more

Dresner Partners is a FINRA-registered, middle-market investment bank based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1991, Dresner Partners provides financial advisory services to business owners and managers throughout the United States, including institutional private placements of debt and... more

Aronson Capital Partners, LLC is a leading investment bank providing mergers and acquisition (M&A), corporate finance, and valuation services to middle-market companies in the defense and government technology services industries. Our team of senior corporate finance professionals has... more

Digital Coast Partners is an investment bank focused on middle market companies in the Information Technology, Communications and Media & Entertainment, Business & Consumer Services and Health Care sectors. We offer Merger and Acquisition, Private Placement and Strategic Advisory... more

McColl Partners is an independent investment banking firm specializing in the needs of management and owners of middle-market companies. With significant experience working with private equity groups, entrepreneurs, family-owned businesses, public companies, and divisions of larger... more

Gruppo, Levey & Co. (GLC) is a leading independent private investment banking firm specializing in the consumer, industrial, media, multi-channel retail & marketing services sectors. GLC provides M&A services; capital and debt financing raises as well as restructuring services; it... more