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The following is a list of investment banks
[edit] Financial conglomerates
Large financial-services conglomerates combine commercial banking and investment banking, and sometimes insurance. Such combinations were common in Germany but illegal in the United States prior to passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999. The name of the bank's investment-bank affiliate is in parentheses where applicable.
[edit] Independent Investment Banks
M&A Advisors and Underwriters of securities that are not affiliated with commercial banks:
[edit] Other capital markets firms
Broker-dealers and miscellaneous.
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- Fox-Pitt, Kelton
- Grace Matthews
- Imperial Capital, LLC
- Investment Technology Group
- Kerr Financial Corporation
- Messier Partner
- Montgomery & Co.
- Neuberger Berman, LLC
- Newedge group
- NIBC
- Pacific Road Corporate Finance
- Park Lane - Investment Banking Services
- Peter J. Solomon Company
- Rutberg & Co.
- Saxo Bank
- Sheshunoff Management Services, LP
- SVB Alliant
- TSG Partners, LLC
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[edit] Former investment banks
- Alex. Brown & Sons (ultimately part of Deutsche Bank, survives as minor business unit)
- Barings (collapsed 1995; assets acquired by ING Bank)
- Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co
- Carl M. Loeb Rhodes and Company (ultimately part of Citigroup)
- Commodities Corporation (bought by Goldman Sachs)
- Dain Rauscher Wessels (bought by Royal Bank of Canada in 2000)
- Defoe Fournier & Cie. (continues as private capital investor and handing investment banking operations to Defoe Capital)
- Dillon, Read & Company (acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation, and is ultimately part of UBS AG)
- Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (acquired by Credit Suisse in 2001)
- Drexel Burnham Lambert (liquidated 1990)
- E. F. Hutton & Co. (acquired by Shearson Lehman American Express in 1988, ultimatedly part of Lehman Brothers)
- First Boston (merged with Credit Suisse in 1988 to form CS First Boston, renamed Credit Suisse First Boston in 1996 and Credit Suisse in 2006)
- G. H. Walker & Co. (acquired by White Weld & Co and ultimately part of Merrill Lynch)
- Gerard Klauer Mattison (acquired by BMO Nesbitt Burns, subsequently renamed Harris Nesbitt)
- H. B. Hollins & Co.
- Halsey, Stuart & Co. (ultimately part of Wachovia)
- Hambrecht & Quist (acquired by Chase Manhattan Bank and ultimately part of JPMorgan Chase. H&Q name continues as investment advisor)
- Hambros Bank (acquired by Societe Generale)
- J. & W. Seligman & Co. (investment bank ultimately part of UBS AG; continues as asset manager)
- J.C. Bradford & Co. (ultimately part of UBS AG)
- Kidder, Peabody & Co. (acquired by General Electric Corporation in 1986, subsequently resold to PaineWebber in 1994 and ultimately part of UBS AG)
- Kleinwort Benson (acquired by Dresdner Bank)
- Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (ultimately part of Lehman Brothers)
- L.F. Rothschild (ultimately part of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, with parts sold to Oppenheimer)(not to be confused with N.M. Rothschild, Rothschild Group; see Rothschild family)
- Lee, Higginson & Co. (liquidated 1932)
- Montgomery Securities (ultimately part of Bank of America)
- Morgan Grenfell (acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1990)
- Petrie Parkman & Co. (acquired by Merrill Lynch in 2006)
- Prudential Securities (acquired by Wachovia in 2003)
- Putnam Lovell (ultimately part of National Bank Financial)
- Robert Fleming & Co. (acquired by JPMorgan Chase)
- Robertson, Stephens (acquired by Bank of America in 2002)
- Ryan Beck & Co. (ultimately part of Stifel Financial Corp., parent company of Stifel Nicolaus)
- S. G. Warburg & Co (ultimately part of UBS AG; not to be confused with M.M. Warburg or Warburg Pincus; see Warburg family)
- Salomon Brothers (acquired by Travelers Group in 1997, ultimately part of Citigroup)
- Schroders (investment bank bought by Citigroup; continues as asset manager)
- Soundview Technology Group (ultimately part of Charles Schwab)
- Swiss Bank Corporation (merged with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS AG
- Union Bank of Switzerland (merged with Swiss Bank Corporation to form UBS AG
- Wasserstein Perella (bought by Dresdner Bank)
- Wheat First (ultimately part of Wachovia)
- White Weld & Co. (bought by Merrill Lynch)
- WIT Capital (bought by Charles Schwab)
- Wood Gundy Inc. (acquired by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in 1987, operating as CIBC Wood Gundy before becoming CIBC World Markets in 1997)
[edit] Brokerages
