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William Blair & Company Acts as Lead Manager in Portfolio Recovery Associates’ Initial Public Offering of Common Stock
Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRAA) priced its initial public offering of 3,900,000 shares of its common stock at $13.00 per share.

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc. With Outperform Rating

William Blair & Company Advises A. M. Castle & Co.
William Blair & Company acted as exclusive financial advisor to A. M. Castle & Co. (AMEX: CAS) in the renegotiation of all of the Company’s outstanding debt agreements and the issuance of $12 million of convertible preferred stock.

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. With Outperform Rating

William Blair & Company Acts as Co-Lead Underwriter to Aon in Common Stock Offering
William Blair & Company served as co-lead underwriter to Aon Corporation in its follow-on common stock offering which priced on November 4, 2002. Morgan Stanley was the sole book-runner and lead underwriter for the offering. Aon plans to use the proceeds to pay down existing short-term debt.

William Blair & Company Issues 161st Current Better Values List

William Blair Chosen As International Sub-Advisor for American Skandia
Beating a field of 1,025 international equity managers, William Blair & Company was selected in late September to manage the international growth portfolios of American Skandia Investment Services.

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Managing Director Tom Campion to Speak at the Indiana Venture Conference

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of iDine Rewards Network Inc. With Outperform Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Intrado Inc. With Market Perform Rating

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Managing Director Timothy MacKenzie to Speak at Strategic Research Institute’s Innovative Financing Strategies for Industrial Manufacturing Companies Conference

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Hewitt Associates, Inc. With Outperform Rating

William Blair & Company Issues 160th Current Better Values List

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of FactSet Research Systems Inc. With Market Perform Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Richardson Electronics, Ltd. With Market Perform Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. and 99 Cents Only Stores

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of HealtheTech, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Inveresk Research Group, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of SCP Pool Corporation With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Issues 159th Current Better Values List

William Blair & Company Resumes Coverage of Littelfuse, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Shoe Carnival, Inc. With Buy Rating

Record Attendance Expected at William Blair & Company’s 22nd Annual Growth Stock Conference

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Getty Images, Inc. With Long-term Buy

William Blair & Company Resumes Coverage of Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. and Tractor Supply Company With Buy Ratings

William Blair & Company Resumes Coverage of Genentech, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Moody’s Corporation With Strong Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of W.W. Grainger, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. With Long-term Buy

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Liz Claiborne, Inc. With Long-term Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Issues 158th Current Better Values List

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of USA Education, Inc. With Long-term Buy

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Managing Director Marc Walfish to Speak at the Symposium on Mezzanine Finance '02

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Mercury Interactive Corporation With Long-term Buy

William Blair Value Discovery Fund Closing to New Investors on March 28

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Director Of Business Development, Terrel Bressler, Speaks at the Governor’s Summit On Capital 2002

William Blair & Company Issues 157th Current Better Values List

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of PayPal, Inc. With Strong Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of GameStop Corp. With Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Overture Services Inc. With Buy Rating

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Two Analog Semiconductor Manufacturers With Long-term Buys

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. With Long-term Buy

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Director Of Business Development, Terrel Bressler, Speaks at the Cleveland Bar Association Securities Law Institute Conference

William Blair & Company Report: Housing Market Could Falter in Next Few Months

William Blair & Company Announces New Principals

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Timothy Mackenzie, Presents at the 3rd Annual Mid-Market March Madness Conference

William Blair & Company Initiates Coverage of CarMax Group With Buy Rating

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Director of Business Development, Terrel Bressler, Speaks at the Private Placements Industry Conference

William Blair Mezzanine Capital Partners Managing Director, Marc Walfish Speaks at the Private Equity Analyst Outlook 2002

William Blair & Company Issues 156th Current Better Values List

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