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• Bob Johnson Joins Sagent Advisors; Former Head of Media and Telecommunications Group for DLJ Joins Independent Advisory Firm

  - 2005-01-24

  NEW YORK -- Sagent Advisors announced today that Bob Johnson has joined the independent investment bank as a Managing Director. Johnson, who previously had been the head of the Media and Telecommunications Group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette, reinforces Sagent's commitment to providing high quality M&A counsel and other strategic...

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• Ketchum leaves UBS for Banc of America.

  - 2002-10-23

  Byline: Shanny Basar Stephen Ketchum has left UBS Warburg after a year-and-a-half and joined Banc of America Securities as global head of its media and telecom group.Ketchum joined UBS Warburg in April 2001 as managing director and head of satellite communications investment banking. ...

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• IP Communications Secures $312 Million in Second-Round Financing; Original Investors Join Other Leading Firms to Back Fast-Growing Broadband Service Provider

  - 2000-11-14

  Business Editors NOTE: Videos relating to this story will be available for journalists to download beginning today at www.newstream.com DALLAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 14, 2000 IP Communications (www.ip.net), a leading independent broadband service provider and the largest in Texas, today announced it has secured $312 million...

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• Junk bond crash takes toll on Wall St.

  - 2000-10-30

  Credit Suisse, others hammered by market When Credit Suisse Group announced two months ago that it was buying Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette for a princely $12 billion, experts said the U.S. investment bank's hugely lucrative junk bond opera ...

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• Junk rout trashes banks; Defaults depress bonds' values; underwriting fees seen shrinking.(value of junk bonds plunges)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-10-16

  On Aug. 30, Credit Suisse Group announced that it was buying U.S. investment bank Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette for a princely $12 billion-largely, it was said, to get ahold of DLJ's hugely lucrative junk bond operation. Oops. Less than two mont On Aug....

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• DLJ'S Sprout Group Leads $77 Million Investment in Yipes Communication Group

  - 2000-03-09

  Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--March 9, 2000 Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. (NYSE: DLJ) announced today that the Sprout Group, DLJ's venture capital affiliate, led a $77 million second round investment in Yipes Communication Group (www.yipes.com), a leading managed optical IP network provider based in San Francisco, California....

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• Sprout Group Invests $10 Million in Worldwide Fiber, Inc

  - 1999-12-13

  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 13, 1999-- Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (NYSE:DLJ) announced today that the Sprout Group, DLJ's venture capital affiliate, made a $10 million investment in Vancouver-based Worldwide Fiber Inc. WFI. WFI is a designer, builder and provider of technologically advanced fiber optic communications infrastructure in North America. ...

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• Joel D. Gross, Telecommunications and Wall Street Veteran, Joins Broadview Networks as Chief Financial Officer

  - 1999-10-08

  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 8, 1999-- Broadview Networks, a leading-edge, facilities-based integrated communications provider ICP, today announced that Joel D. Gross, a 21-year veteran of corporate telecommunications and Wall Street, has been appointed chief financial officer. Gross, 45, has assumed his new duties at Broadview Networks' New York headquarters and...

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• WorldGate Files Registration Statement for Secondary Offering Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Joins WorldGate's Team of Investment Bankers

  - 1999-09-14

  TREVOSE, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 13, 1999-- WorldGate Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:WGAT) announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the registration of 3,500,000 shares of common stock proposed to be sold by the Company and 1,750,000 shares of common stock proposed to be...

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