Palladium Capital Advisors

Palladium Capital Advisors Ranked in Top 10 Most Active Placement Agents YTD

Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC has been recognized as one of the most active PIPE placement agents in the USA, according to Sagient Research’s PlacementTracker League Tables, as of June 1, 2008.

Top 25 Agents By Number of Deals - 2008*
(Excluding financial Advisors; All PIPEs Excluding Structured Equity Lines and Canadian Companies)

Rank	Agent Name	Deals
1	Rodman & Renshaw, LLC	21
2	Lazard	10
3	Roth Capital Partners, LLC	9
4	Canaccord Adams, Inc.	7
5	Lehman Brothers, Inc.	6
6	Palladium Capital Advisors, LLC	6
7	Merriman Curhan Ford & Company	5
8	Midtown Partners & Co., LLC	5
9	Oppenheimer & Co, Inc.	4
10	Maxim group LLC	4
11	T.R.Winston & Company, Inc.	4
12	Goldman, Sachs & Co	3
13	Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	3

Rank	Agent Name	Deals
14	Westminster Securities Corporation	3
15	Emerging Growth Equities, Ltd.	3
16	Empire Financial Group, Inc.	3
17	UBS Investment BankBS	2
18	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co..	2
19	Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC	2
20	BMO Capital Markets Corp.	2
21	Cowen and Company, LLC	2
22	Pacific Growth Equities, Inc..	2
23	Leerink Swann & Co.	2
24	Chardan Capital Markets	2
25	Global Hunter Securities, LLC	2
* According to PlacementTracker.com as June 1, 2008

Palladium’s CEO, Joel Padowitz, commented, “We are passionate about becoming the premier investment bank for emerging growth public companies in general and in the communications and technology sector in particular. We see this news as confirmation that our growing team of seasoned bankers is bringing real value to our clients.”

PlacementTracker is “a dynamic, customizable research service that provides clients with market data, research, and analysis on the PIPE market.” The League Tables show the top agents for the number of deals placed for all PIPEs, excluding Structured Equity Lines, 144-A Convertibles, Reg S Placements, and all Canadian companies. In a PIPE deal, a public company issues unregistered equity-linked securities to a group of qualified investors at a discount to the current market value of the stock, for the purpose of raising capital.

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