Imperial Capital to Sponsor 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - April 14, 2009) - Imperial Capital announced today that it will be a sponsor of the 2009 Milken Institute Global Conference, a gathering of over 3,000 leading business leaders, financial executives, investors, philanthropists, government officials, journalists and academic experts. The conference will take place April 27-29, 2009, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

The Milken Institute Global Conference brings together some of the world's most extraordinary thinkers and decision makers, including many Nobel Prize winners, for an opportunity to discuss, debate and deliberate the most difficult challenges facing businesses, investors, governments and non-governmental organizations today. This year's Global Conference will focus heavily on finding solutions in the current global financial downturn. The Conference will feature over 120 panels and 400 speakers.

Imperial Capital's President, Randall E. Wooster, will participate in a panel discussion titled, "The Era of Deleveraging: Finding the Right Capital Structure - How can banks and financial firms repair their balance sheets? And what are the larger consequences for the economy when everyone - banks, businesses and consumers alike - undertakes deleveraging at once?" This panel will be moderated by Michael Milken, Chairman of The Milken Institute. Mr. Wooster is also the Co-Founder of Imperial Capital. He is responsible for managing Imperial Capital's overall business and oversees the firm's Sales and Trading operations.

Also attending the conference from Imperial Capital will be Jason W. Reese, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, John E. Mack III, Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Christopher Shephard, Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Capital Markets, Neal Thomas, Managing Director, Manager of Institutional Sales and Trading, and Edward P. Mally, Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Research.

For further information about Imperial Capital, please visit the Imperial Capital website: http://www.imperialcapital.com.

For further information about the conference, please visit the Milken Institute Global Conference website: http://www.milkeninstitute.org

About Imperial Capital, LLC

Founded in 1997, Imperial Capital is an investment banking firm based in Los Angeles, with offices in New York and San Francisco. The firm currently employs over 150 professionals and offers a wide range of sophisticated, value-added products and services to middle market companies and institutional investors. Imperial Capital offers companies capital markets, merger and acquisition, restructuring and other advisory services. The firm provides institutional investors with research and trade execution of corporate bonds, high yield and distressed debt securities, bank debt, convertible bonds, equity and equity-linked securities.

About the Milken Institute

The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, independent economic think tank whose mission is to improve the lives and economic conditions of diverse populations around the world by helping business and public policy leaders identify and implement innovative ideas for creating broad-based prosperity. It is based in Santa Monica, CA.