Corporate Finance

William Blair & Company's Corporate Finance department provides public and private corporations with comprehensive capital formation and advisory services, including underwriting for initial or secondary public offerings, mergers and acquisitions advice, and private equity placement services. With the experience and creativity our professionals bring to the table, we look at more than just your transaction--we look at your business.

William Blair & Company hosted its 11th Annual Private Equity Conference on October 14-15, 2008 at the Four Seasons in Chicago. The conference played host to 59 participating companies who presented their business plans to an audience of more than 400 venture and private equity investors.

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Offices: Chicago, Boston, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai

William Blair & Company has been honored in two categories by the Turnaround Atlas Awards: the Sector Deal of the Year - Technology, Telecom and Media was awarded to our NCP transaction; and Geoff Richards has been named Restructuring Financial Adviser of the Year.
Brett Paschke, William Blair & Company's co-head of Equity Capital Markets, is included in a Forbes.com article titled, "The Changing IPO Market; A rebound is coming in the market for new offerings, is Wall Street ready?" View Article
Andy Kaye has joined William Blair & Company as Head of Asia, expanding the firm's Asian investment banking expertise. In this role, Andy will be based in the firm's China office and will lead further penetration into the Asian marketplace as well as development of targeted product offerings. He will report to Brent Gledhill, global head of corporate finance.
William Blair & Company's Education Services investment banking team hosted more than 80 guests at an industry discussion and reception in Orlando. The reception was held during the Career College Association 2009 Annual Convention and Exposition.
Fred Johnson, Director and Head of Confidential Equity Offerings at William Blair & Company, recently co-authored an article for The PIPEs Report entitled: Rights Offerings: The New Pipes? Download a reprint of the article (PDF)
William Blair & Company has been named Large Corporate Finance House of the Year by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Real Deals.
Mark Brady, Principal and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, has been named 2008 Middle-Market Banker of the Year by IDD magazine. View press release.
William Blair & Company was presented with the M&A Atlas Awards Consumer Goods & Services Deal of the Year for its advisory work on Wrigley Company's acquisition by Mars, Incorporated.
M&A Atlas Awards named the CME Group acquistion of NYMEX Holding as the 2009 North American Deal of the Year. William Blair & Company served as advisor to CME Group for the transaction.
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