Focused on growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for nearly 45 years, Jefferies is a global, full service investment banking and institutional securities firm operating in more than 25 offices in six countries spanning three continents. We provide world-class investment banking, sales & trading, research and asset management to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net worth individuals. We are industry experts, specializing in aerospace & defense, consumer & retail, energy, financial & business services, gaming & leisure, healthcare, industrials, maritime & oil service, media & communications and technology, with a dedicated private equity coverage group.
As a firm, we strive to add value and create opportunity in all that we do. Our creative, hands-on approach, combined with our wide-ranging experience, expertise and extensive relationships has distinguished us. For corporate clients, the Firm is a top M&A and restructuring advisor and underwriter of high yield and equity new issues. Serving institutional investors and high net worth individuals, we are a leading provider of trade execution and liquidity in equity, convertible, and high yield securities and a market maker of fixed income and commodity-linked products. Jefferies also offers top-tier private client services, prime brokerage, securities finance, correspondent services and NYSE brokerage services. The Firm has an award-winning research practice, covering equity, high yield and convertible securities, as well as a growing asset management practice utilizing a variety of asset strategies. We have worked with hundreds of corporate clients and thousands of institutional investors to make their business goals possible, wherever they do business.
Our firm recently achieved six consecutive years of record financial results, and was named the "2005 Middle Market Investment Bank of the Year" by IDD Magazine. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF), a publicly traded holding company with an equity market capitalization of over $4 billion (04/07/06, fully diluted) and revenues of nearly $1.5 billion in 2005.
