Allied Communications – sale of wholesale distributor of cellular telephones to Brightpoint, a larger competitor. Sale price was about $40 million.

Burke & Burke – capital raising for Burke & Burke, a regional chain of gourmet food shops.

Drexelbrook Engineering – Sale of a privately-owned manufacturer of flow-measurement instrumentation to Ametek, Inc. Sale price was $30 million.

E-Vision – Sale of a privately-owned company with a breakthrough optical technology to Johnson & Johnson.

Goldfield Corp. – Sale of Goldfield’s southwestern mining properties to a private investor group.

HEICO – private placement of $25 million of senior and mezzanine debt for this American Stock Exchange listed Aerospace company that manufactured jet engine replacement parts. Securities placed but client cancelled transaction due to rising interest rates.

JM Peters – Sale of the outstanding debt and 80+% of the equity interest in this American Stock Exchange – listed company to a private investor group.

Kagan Media Partners, L.P. - General Partner of this $30 million Paine Webber public media partnership.

OCLC, Inc. – $38 million private placement to finance expansion of this company that provides computerized cataloguing services to libraries nationally.

Paging Partners Corporation – private placements of seed and growth capital; an IPO advisory assignment to take this regional paging company public; and a subsequent private placement of a PIPE with a prominent institutional investor.

Rocky Mountain Radio – private placement to finance the acquisition of multiple radio stations in Colorado Rocky Mountain communities.

Saco Defense - Sale of a privately-owned manufacturer of rocket launchers and gun barrels to General Dynamics.

San Jacinto/Thousand Trails – Sale of a company operating a national chain of campgrounds to a group of bondholders as part of a reorganization.

Syms, Inc. – private placement to finance expansion of this chain of off price retailers.

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