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Check the list. We have hired some of the country’s top investment banking advisors to help you structure the deal and sell it to the right people. What’s more, our relationships with the nation’s foremost investors enable us to help efficiently distribute your shares across the market. We’ll deliver the guidance you need to succeed.

Our expertise in your industry helps us guide you through the specifics of:

• Creative deal structuring
• Complex negotiations
• A shorter fundraising period
• Qualitative and quantitative analyses

Work with us for:

Public equity offerings
Debt capital markets access
High-yield and structured products
Private placements
Financial restructurings
Mergers and acquisitions
Executive, corporate and venture services
Cash management

Public equity offerings

As a leading provider of equity financing to middle market companies, we have a proven track record in delivering corporate finance products. Piper Jaffray has been a manager on top-performing IPOs for the past four years.* Last year, we were ranked No. 4 for the number of IPOs completed in our focus sectors—the growth areas of the economy. If you're looking to gain access to needed capital, you should know our expertise also extends to specialized offerings such as:

• Convertibles
• PIPEs (private investment in public equities)
• RDs (registered directs)
• ADRs (American depository receipts)

^{* Source: Dealogic, issuers less than $2 billion in market cap}

Moreover, our specific industry expertise means we can deliver the right services and products to meet your industry—and company needs.

Debt capital markets

Need help accessing the debt capital markets? Our quality execution and broad distribution capability make us the right partner. You'll benefit from our strong secondary market support, as well as the ideas and alternatives to debt financing that we offer.

• Senior secured financings
• Second lien structures
• Structured financings (on- and off-balance sheet)
• Pass-through certificates
• Senior unsecured notes
• Subordinated notes
• Mezzanine capital
• Preferred stock

High-yield and structured products

Our seasoned team will work with you to improve and create financing structures. Our industry-leading structured aircraft finance analytics is an important tool if you issue these types of securities:

• EETCs (Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificates)
• ETCs (Equipment Trust Certificates)
• PTCs (Pass-through Trust Certificates)
• ABS (Asset-Backed Securities)
• Lease financings

Private placements

Our expertise in raising capital through creative structures brings measurable value and favorable terms for our clients. Since 1998, we've raised more than $4.0 billion in more than 155 private placement transactions through products and services such as:

• Growth capital
• Acquisition capital
• Shareholder liquidity
• Structured private investment, private equity (PIPE)
• Transaction advisories

From brand-name firms to highly specialized investors, our team adds distinct value by putting our clients in touch with a broad array of qualified investors. Our daily contact with these investors lets us collect up-to-the-minute market insight.

• Mezzanine private equity funds
• Crossover investors
• Institutional/hedge funds
• Strategic investors
• International investors

View a representative list of our private placement clients.

Financial restructuring

The financial restructuring team at Piper Jaffray is a leading provider of advisory services to financially stressed and distressed businesses, creditor constituencies and equity investors. We have a proven record helping clients navigate the challenges of reorganizing assets or planning exit strategies.

Whatever your situation, you'll benefit from our:

• Ability to successfully evaluate individual situations
• Accurate company or securities valuation
• Key strategic relationships with lenders and financial sponsors
• Proven experience negotiating complex transactions

Read more on how our restructuring professionals can help you.

Mergers & acquisitions

Piper Jaffray is consistently ranked among the top middle market M&A advisory firms in the country. Our well-structured and executed transactions are backed by a unique understanding of the industries we serve and the key to optimizing value for our clients. We've guided our clients in recent years on more than 590 situations valued at $63 billion, including:

• Exclusive sale advisories
• Leveraged recapitalizations
• Management buyouts
• Acquisition advisories
• Acquisition financing alternatives
• Alternative financial strategies
• Fairness opinions
• Strategic alternatives
• “Going private” transactions
• Special committee advisories
• Share repurchase strategies
• Corporate defensive activities

If you wish to receive insightful and timely analysis on activity in the M&A marketplace, request a copy from your Piper Jaffray representative of our M&A Insights report, which is published periodically.

View a representative list of our M&A clients.

Executive, corporate and venture services

Get highly integrated trading and investment services tailored to your specific needs.

Executive services

We focus in Rule 144 and restricted stock trading, as well as Rule 10b5-1 structured selling programs. If you’re a capital markets client with high net worth, our wealth management process is designed just for you.

Corporate services

For our corporate clients, we offer:

• Administration of directed share programs
• Corporate share repurchase programs
• Cash management and short-term investing services (see below)

Venture services

We offer distribution management, trading and research services, including tracking and reporting for in-kind stock distributions to limited partners. If you’re a venture capital client, you’ll also benefit from full access to our institutional sales, trading and research teams.

Corporate cash management services

Our corporate cash management services focus on identifying financial objectives, preserving assets, reducing volatility and providing liquidity. We provide Web-based, interactive, customized portfolio accounting services and reports suited to each clients particular needs.

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