Sandler O'Neill and Partners
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| Industry | Investment banking |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, US |
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Key people
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James J. Dunne III, Senior Managing Principal Jonathan J. Doyle, Senior Managing Principal |
| Website | www |
Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P., (Sandler O’Neill) is a full-service investment banking firm and broker-dealer specializing in the financial services sector. It is headquartered in New York City, and has offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. The firm also operates a mortgage finance company and registered investment adviser based in Memphis.
Sandler O’Neill provides investment banking services to financial institutions and their investors. Its services include merger and acquisition advisory, capital markets, fixed income sales and trading, and equity sales and trading, equity research, balance sheet management, mortgage finance, and consulting services. The firm publishes research on about 300 financial institutions across the United States.
Despite shifts in the way similar Wall Street firms are run, Sandler O’Neill has retained its private partnership structure, and it is currently the largest private investment bank dedicated to the financial sector. It perennially ranks among the top advisers on bank and thrift mergers as well as in capital raising.
Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. was founded in 1988 by Herman S. Sandler and five other executives from the firm Bear Stearns. Though today it serves companies of all sizes, the firm was founded with an emphasis on community and mid-size banks, as its founders saw that smaller financial institutions were underserved by the existing advisement system. Six months after the foundation of the firm, Christopher Quackenbush left Merrill Lynch to build Sandler’s investment banking group. Two years after Sandler’s establishment it formed Sandler O’Neill Mortgage Finance, an affiliate of Sandler O’Neill + Partners. The affiliate is currently headquartered in Memphis but maintains an office in New York City separate from the firm’s headquarters.
In 1993, the company moved to Two World Trade Center from Two Wall Street. The same year, Sandler O'Neill opened an equity sales and trading division. The following year, the firm began publishing equity research, focusing on community banks and other financial institutions.
Sandler O'Neill has four satellite offices in addition to its main office in New York City. The first was opened in Boston in 1998. Offices in Atlanta and San Francisco were opened in 2003. A final satellite office was opened in 2004 in Chicago.
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