SAN DIEGO, April 24, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Sagient Research Systems, a leading publisher of independent research for the financial services and institutional investment communities, today announced that Rodman & Renshaw, LLC ranked as the number one most active investment bank and Iroquois Capital, L.P. ranked as the number one most active institutional investor in the PIPE market during the first quarter of 2007.
PlacementTracker also announced that Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference, LLP ranked as the number one most active issuer counsel and Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP ranked as the number one most active investor counsel in the PIPE market during the first quarter of 2007.
PlacementTracker, a flagship product of Sagient Research Systems, is well recognized as the leading provider of research, data, and analytics covering the PIPE market.
Commenting on the League Tables, Robert F. Kyle, executive vice president of Sagient Research said, "The first quarter of 2007 was one of the most active periods in the twelve years that we've been analyzing this market. During the first quarter, we recorded 302 PIPE transactions totaling $10.92 billion in equity and equity-linked capital raised (excluding Structured Equity Lines and Canadian issuers). This represented an astounding 48% increase over the total amount raised in the market during the first quarter of 2006 and puts the market on track for yet another record year. As always, we congratulate all of the active agents, investors, and legal counsel in the PIPE market for a tremendous first quarter, especially those leaders who topped the League Tables. Many of these firms are long-time clients of PlacementTracker, and we look forward to continuing to provide them with industry leading data, research, and analytics to help keep them on top of this market."
PlacementTracker's dynamically updating League Tables are available online at: http://www.sagientresearch.com/pt/leaguetables.cfm.
The 2007 PIPE Market Investment Banking League Table
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By Number of Transactions (through 3/31/07):
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Transaction Total
Placement Agent Name Count Amount Placed
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Rodman & Renshaw, LLC 12 $232,128,723.00
Roth Capital Partners, LLC 7 $69,869,030.00
UBS Investment Bank 5 $899,096,823.00
Piper Jaffray & Co. 5 $117,271,028.00
Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. 5 $88,669,988.00
Banc of America Securities, LLC 4 $229,558,200.00
Sanders Morris Harris, Inc. 4 $52,500,796.00
First Montauk Securities, Inc. 4 $14,430,000.00
ThinkEquity Partners, LLC 3 $187,931,180.00
National Securities Corp. 3 $75,750,269.00
First Albany Capital 3 $60,287,109.00
Lazard 3 $56,759,278.00
Maxim Group, LLC 3 $37,547,000.00
Westminster Securities Corp. 3 $20,062,739.00
Midtown Partners & Co., LLC 3 $13,255,444.00
Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. 2 $339,300,795.00
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 2 $328,959,880.00
BMO Capital Markets Corp. 2 $165,152,076.00
A.G. Edwards, Inc. 2 $115,240,000.00
Cowen and Company, LLC 2 $77,383,838.00
Leerink Swann & Co. 2 $58,000,000.00
Merrill Lynch & Co. 2 $50,759,278.00
Coker, Palmer, Phillips & Mullen, Inc. 2 $50,195,000.00
Lane Capital Markets, LLC 2 $42,990,000.00
Brean Murray, Carret & Co. 2 $40,008,449.00
Investment Banking rankings exclude all Equity Line of Credit
transactions and all PIPE transactions conducted by Canadian issuers.
On transactions where an investment banking firm has acted solely as
Financial Advisor, that transaction has been excluded from that
firm's ranking. Co-agented transactions award full transaction credit
to all agents participating (regardless of status of lead agent or
co-agent). Data is as reported as of 4/23/07.
The 2007 PIPE Market Institutional Investor League Table
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By Number of Transactions (through 3/31/07):
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Transaction Total
Investor Name Count Amount Invested
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Iroquois Capital, L.P. 19 $16,442,384.00
Heights Capital Management, Inc. 17 $81,113,503.00
Enable Capital Management 16 $49,744,567.00
UBS Capital Americas, LLC 12 $38,571,301.00
Highbridge International, LLC 11 $68,682,578.00
SF Capital Partners, Inc. 11 $33,454,418.00
Cornell Capital Partners, L.P. 9 $31,433,651.00
Hudson Bay Capital Management, L.P. 9 $15,244,391.00
Atoll Asset Management, LLC 9 $7,890,023.00
Downsview Capital, Inc. 9 $6,138,355.00
Lehman Brothers, Inc. 8 $60,320,718.00
Roswell Capital Partners, LLC 8 $12,510,263.00
Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. 7 $14,517,252.00
Vision Capital Advisors, LLC 7 $13,788,481.00
Cantara (Switzerland) S.A. 7 $4,793,679.00
Heller Capital Partners 7 $4,658,056.00
Nite Capital Management, LLC 7 $2,399,998.00
Paramount BioSciences, LLC 7 $1,554,385.00
Ramius Capital Group, LLC 6 $14,064,754.00
Fort Mason Capital 6 $13,545,426.00
Crestview Capital Partners, LLC 6 $9,492,002.00
GLG Partners, L.P. 5 $20,618,150.00
MGP Advisors, LLC 5 $14,166,889.00
Millennium Management, LLC 5 $10,534,000.00
Whitebox Advisors, LLC 5 $10,126,085.00
Investor rankings exclude all Equity Line of Credit transactions and
all PIPE transactions conducted by Canadian issuers. Investors
classified as Corporate Investors and Insurance Companies have been
excluded from this ranking. Data is as reported as of 4/23/07.
The 2007 PIPE Market Issuer Counsel League Table
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By Number of Transactions (through 3/31/07):
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Transaction Total
Legal Counsel Count Amount Advised
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Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference, LLP 11 $47,760,546.00
Haynes and Boone, LLP 7 $169,890,366.00
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP 5 $212,773,743.00
Greenberg Traurig, LLP 5 $54,587,750.00
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston
Gates Ellis 4 $41,191,643.00
Richardson & Patel, LLP 4 $37,900,000.00
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky
& Popeo, PC 4 $22,000,000.00
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 3 $720,000,000.00
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US, LLP 3 $144,616,006.00
Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP 3 $45,438,721.00
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman
& Steiner, LLC 3 $39,200,002.00
Ropes & Gray 3 $39,146,194.00
Troutman Sanders, LLP 3 $33,970,000.00
Rutan & Tucker, LLP 3 $10,950,000.00
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP 2 $308,719,877.00
Perkins Coie, LLP 2 $236,200,085.00
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
& Dorr, LLP 2 $50,603,877.00
Hogan & Hartson, LLP 2 $50,195,000.00
Bull, Housser & Tupper, LLP 2 $50,195,000.00
Heller Ehrman, LLP 2 $41,500,002.00
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP 2 $39,389,161.00
Foley & Lardner 2 $33,175,363.00
Morrison & Foerster, LLP 2 $29,249,999.00
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP 2 $27,499,980.00
Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth, PC 2 $20,624,016.00
Legal counsel rankings exclude all Equity Line of Credit transactions
and all PIPE transactions conducted by Canadian issuers. Data is as
reported as of 4/23/07.
The 2007 PIPE Market Investor Counsel League Table
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By Number of Transactions (through 3/31/07):
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Transaction Total
Legal Counsel Count Amount Advised
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Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP 34 $3,576,805,839.00
Feldman Weinstein, LLP 6 $46,994,363.00
Grushko & Mittman, PC 6 $14,455,000.00
Peter J. Weisman, PC 5 $27,998,453.00
Simpson Thacher Bartlett, LLP 3 $776,458,987.00
Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman, LLP 2 $248,152,077.00
Shearman & Sterling, LLP 2 $104,048,500.00
Latham & Watkins, LLP 2 $83,888,500.00
Proskauer Rose, LLP 2 $51,200,000.00
Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum,
Perlman, & Nagelberg, LLP 2 $27,900,001.00
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP 2 $26,040,000.00
Lowenstein Sandler, PC 2 $10,500,000.00
Krieger & Prager, LLP 2 $8,196,250.00
Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig
& Wolosky 2 $7,353,000.00
O'Melveny & Myers, LLP 1 $355,000,000.00
Vinson & Elkins, LLP 1 $100,000,048.00
McCarthy Tretrault, LLP 1 $94,812,500.00
Baker & McKenzie 1 $76,458,987.00
Law Offices of Brian Pusch 1 $47,480,180.00
Cravath, Swaine & Moore 1 $45,000,000.00
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP 1 $25,750,000.00
Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP 1 $25,750,000.00
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLC 1 $17,500,000.00
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP 1 $15,714,000.00
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP 1 $15,000,018.00
Legal counsel rankings exclude all Equity Line of Credit transactions
and all PIPE transactions conducted by Canadian issuers. Data is as
reported as of 4/23/07.
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