Kaufman Bros.' investment banking team provides a full range of services, from private placements and public offerings to advisory work and mergers and acquisitions. We deploy a team of industry specialists who provide high-quality advice across a number of corporate finance product groups and sectors, including cable, media and satellite; communications equipment, services and software; enterprise software; electronic manufacturing services; and media and Internet.

Equity Private Placements

Kaufman Bros.' private placement group assists companies in the process of raising early-, mid- and late-stage capital for quality private and public companies with experienced management teams. We build and maintain relationships with private equity, venture capital and "crossover" investors throughout the United States and Europe in order to service growing businesses and match them with appropriate long-term investors. Kaufman Bros. is a relationship-driven firm, and we approach each private placement engagement as an opportunity to establish or enhance lasting relationships with client companies and investors.

Kaufman Bros. provides its publicly traded clients with access to private capital when particular firms may be better served by a private placement than by a follow-on or secondary public offering. These private investments in public equity, or PIPEs, are executed through the combined efforts of our corporate finance professionals, our private placement group and our institutional sales organization.

Public Offerings

Kaufman Bros.' investment banking group offers corporate issuers the ability to tap into Kaufman Bros.' leading institutional sales and trading platform. Through one of the largest communications-, media- and technology-dedicated institutional salesforces on Wall Street, Kaufman Bros. is able to provide its clients with unparalleled execution and distribution. Kaufman Bros. has executed numerous lead- and co-managed public equity offerings in recent years.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Kaufman Bros. is widely recognized for its successful work on sophisticated M&A transactions. Our M&A professionals offer our clients a wide range of deep industry expertise, including:

• understanding of the impact of potential mergers from a financial point of view as well as product offering/technology mix
• contacts throughout the telecom universe
• timely identification of  target M&A partners
• the ability to arrange high-level meetings and make key introductions
• complete transaction-cycle service

Kaufman Bros. specializes in the following types of transactions:

• mergers
• fairness opinions
• sales
• reorganizations / recapitalizations
• bankruptcy sales
• general advisory services

Kaufman Bros.' M&A professionals work closely with Kaufman Bros.' industry-focused investment bankers to leverage their industry knowledge and relationships for clients' benefit.


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