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• AOL's Post-Spin Board Includes Former FCC Chair Powell, Former William Morris Head Wiatt

  PaidContent - 2009-10-26

  AOL’s post-spin board of directors includes a dash of Hollywood, a hint of e-commerce and some Washington expertise. The nine directors slated to join Chairman and CEO Tim Armstrong on the board when the split from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) goes through include Jim Wiatt, former chairman and CEO...

  Tags: FCC, America Online Inc., Board, Chairman, Board Of Directors, CBS Corp., Hambrecht & Quist, Michael Powell, Richard L. Dalzell, Plainfield Direct Inc., Karen E. Dykstra Karen Dykstra, Plainfield Asset Management LLC, Patricia E. Mitchell Patricia Mitchell, Michael K. Powell Michael Powell, Stengel, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Industry Moves, Companies, Time Warner, AOL, Staci D. Kramer

• Meet AOL's BOD: Tim Armstrong Announces Directors in Advance of Spinoff [MediaMemo]

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  AOL continues to prep for its impending spinoff from Time Warner TWX. Today's step: Announcing the board of directors for the company-to-be. Bold faced names of note include William Hambrecht, former head of tech investment bank Hambrecht & Quist; Michael Powell, former FCC chair; and Jim Wiatt, former head of...

  Tags: CBS Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Board, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Michael Powell, Hambrecht & Quist

• JP Morgan fined $6m for sharing in profits from hot IPOs.

  - 2003-02-20

  Byline: Shanny Basar The NASD, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers, has fined JP Morgan $6m ([euro]5.5m) for unlawful profit sharing activities in 2000 before it acquired Hambrecht & Quist, the independent investment bank.The US regulator found that Hambrecht & Quist...

  Tags: commission, FINANCE, Hambrecht & Quist, Investment, IPO, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., NASD, SALES

• Rising From the Rubble

  - 2002-12-01

  The growth stock capital of the United States is rising again. After three years of plummeting stock prices, massive layoffs and brokerage house retrenchments, San Francisco is coming back. A slew of small and mid-sized investment banks is building up research, sales and trading in the city in a race...

  Tags: Hambrecht & Quist, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Robertson Stephens Co., SALES, stock, trader, Wells Fargo & Co.

• Rising From the Rubble: New and expanding growth is sparking a trading revival in San Francisco. Peter Chapman writes from the City by the Bay.(San Francisco, California, is seeing strong growth in stock brokerage business, with new firms and newcomers se

  - 2002-12-01

  The growth stock capital of the United States is rising again. After three years of plummeting stock prices, massive layoffs and brokerage house retrenchments, San Francisco is coming back. A slew of small and mid-sized investment banks is building up research, sales and trading in the...

  Tags: Chapman Co., Hambrecht & Quist, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Robertson Stephens Co., SALES, stock, trader, Wells Fargo & Co.

• Hambrecht returns to tech IPO market.

  - 2002-06-12

  Byline: Jeremy Adams in New York WR Hambrecht, the US niche investment bank, recently completed its first initial public offering in almost a year.The $39m (E42m) offering for Overstock, a US company selling bankrupt stock on the internet, also marked the return of WR...

  Tags: FINANCE, Hambrecht & Quist, Investment, IPO, stock, WR Hambrecht Co.

• Hambrecht returns to tech IPO market.

  - 2002-06-09

  Byline: Jeremy Adams in New York WR Hambrecht, the US niche investment bank, recently completed its first initial public offering in almost a year. The $39m ([euro]42m) offering for Overstock, a US company selling bankrupt stock on the internet, also marked the return of...

  Tags: FINANCE, Hambrecht & Quist, Investment, IPO, stock, WR Hambrecht Co.

• The corporate shuffle. (Trading Desks).(personnel changes)(Brief Article)

  - 2002-04-01

  WR HAMBRECHT has won Will McDermott and Paul Wessling back to the fold. Both men are returning from a stint with JP Morgan Chase, which absorbed the old Hambrecht & Quist in 1999. Bill Hambrecht is "delighted" to have the two back as senior managing directors. ...

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• "Investors have turned more conservative. That's a competitive advantage for us as a firm".

  - 2001-02-28

  Two heads are better than one. Ask the new co-heads of the J.P. Morgan Private Bank, James E. "Jes" Staley and Maria Elena Lagomasino, about that old adage. They say they need the know-how and energy of both of them to meet their...

  Tags: asset, bank, Hambrecht & Quist, investor, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.

• California-Based Coffee Company Takes Less Formal Approach to IPO.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2001-01-10

  Jan. 9--The Peet's Coffee & Tea on Locust Street in Walnut Creek had a Wall Street flavor when Constance Day went in for a caffeine pick-me-up last week. Along with her usual cappuccino, Day scooped up a brochure about Peet's initial public stock offering....

  Tags: FINANCE, Hambrecht & Quist, Investment, investor, IPO, WR Hambrecht Co.