Investment Banking Industry Competitors

ABN AMRO Finland (formerly Alfred Berg Finland) provides investment and corporate banking services to clients in -- you guessed it -- Finland. Its advisory, structuring, and capital markets products focus on corporate clients, financial institutions, public sector companies, and corporate finance customers....

The Ansbacher Group channels money through the right channels. A subsidiary of Qatar National Bank, Ansbacher offers a wealth of financial services options, including specialist and private banking, financial and estate planning, and fiduciary and trust services....

BMO Capital Markets represents the investment banking and capital markets business of Bank of Montreal (aka BMO Financial Group). The company's services include equity and debt underwriting, institutional trading, mergers and acquisitions advice, corporate lending and project finance, treasury and cash management, equity and debt research, and risk management....

British Linen Advisers was originally founded in 1746 to provide banking services to linen merchants and is one of the oldest investment banks in the UK. The company provides investment banking services such as assistance with mergers and acquisitions, disposals, equity finance, restructuring, capital finance, and other strategic advisement to small and middle-market businesses in the UK....

Communications Equity Associates (CEA) provides investment banking, merchant banking, and private equity services to global companies in the communications, entertainment, and information industries. The company offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, divestment, and fund-raising services from 10 offices in the US and Europe....

Duff & Phelps provides financial advisory and investment banking services to public and private corporations, investment firms, law firms, and public accounting firms. The company specializes in offering fairness opinions regarding financial reporting, tax valuations, real estate and other asset valuations, and dispute resolution....

Empire Business Consultants (dba Empire Mergers & Acquisitions) helps its clients build empires of their own. It assists its clients in buying and selling privately held businesses, put employee stock ownership plans into place to help defer taxes, and conducts business valuations....

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GC-Global Capital Corp., or Global Capital to its friends, is a bridge over troubled water for many companies. The firm serves small to medium North American corporations with $300,000 to $3 million bridge loans (asset-backed financing). It serves all industries, but many customers come from the financial services, manufacturing, technology, mining, real estate, and oil and gas sectors....

It's no secret what the favorite color is around the offices of Greenhill & Co. The investment bank specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, venture capital, and merchant banking for clients worldwide. Merchant banking activities are conducted through the firm's Greenhill Capital Partners unit, which makes private equity investments typically in the $10 million to $75 million range....

Private equity firm HgCapital manages some €2.5 billion for more than 200 institutional clients. Established in 1985, the firm focuses its investments on mid-market companies in the consumer, health care, leisure, manufacturing, media, and technology industries....

Interbanca says benvenuto to investimenti. The investment bank focuses on serving midsized commercial and industrial companies in Italy, providing capital and other services. Interbanca services include medium- and long-term loans to its clients; it finances large construction (public and private works) and energy (biomass, wind energy) projects in Italy....

Jackson Securities "mayor may not be" the choice for some investors. Founded in 1987 by the late Maynard Jackson, former mayor of Atlanta, the firm provides an array of investment banking and brokerage services to institutional and individual investors....

There's something about Kaupthing. One of about a dozen primary subsidiaries of Iceland's Kaupthing Bank (whose name comes from the Icelandic words for "business" and "assembly," Kaupthing New York provides US and Nordic institutional, corporate customers, and private banking clients with a range of investment banking services, including treasury, asset management, brokerage, and comprehensive wealth management....

Mittel is in the middle of everything. The holding company owns stakes in banks, financial investment services, and real estate firms, among others. Subsidiary Mittel Generale Investimenti provides merchant banking and other financial services to midsized firms and clients at the upper end of the wealth spectrum....

Hopefully if you keep your money with the Park Row Group, you won't end up on Skid Row. Park Row Group offers its clients financial advice and services through a number of divisions, both in person and via the Internet. The group has independent financial advisers (IFAs) as well as independent mortgage advisers, and also provides wealth management services to corporate and private clients....

S3 Investment Company is holding its own in the Far East. The firm is a holding company for two subsidiaries operating in China. S3 Investment operates primarily through its Redwood Capital and Sino Uje (51%-owned) subsidiaries, which were both acquired in 2004....

Seneca Financial Group is an investment banking firm focused on getting public and private companies back on their feet. The firm provides financial and operational restructuring (bankruptcies), refinancing, divestitures, and acquisitions. It also provides advisory services, such as financial performance reviews, liquidity tests, financial planning, peer analysis, and valuations....

Senvest Capital and its subsidiaries provide asset management services, merchant banking products (for both the private and public sectors), real estate holdings, and electronic security. Senvest Capital's US subsidiary does business as Senvest International in New York....

Investment bank Shattuck Hammond Partners offers strategic advisory services such as options assessment, capital planning, and IPO advice. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) services include seller and buyer services, restructurings, recapitalizations, and valuations....