Thomas Weisel Partners Group

SALES & TRADING

Our brokerage teams provide high-quality investment and trade execution services to both institutional and high-net-worth investors. Our institutional sales team interacts regularly and frequently with our research analysts to provide growth investors with unique insights and new investment ideas. We are seasoned professionals with extensive track records at both bulge-bracket and focused firms. Our success is based on our superior information flow and proactive service.

Our trading desk provides institutional clients with high-quality order execution and our corporate finance clients with valuable after-market support. Our trading team strives to be the dominant trader in the growth stocks covered by the Thomas Weisel Partners research team, providing liquidity at the best possible price, in an efficient and anonymous manner. Our trading professionals provide support to institutional clients in their pursuit of best execution, including facilitating block trades, providing electronic trading services, committing capital and otherwise providing liquidity.

Our venture services group provides a dedicated distribution and trading unit for the venture capital community. This team has facilitated stock distributions exceeding $5.5 billion since the firm’s inception. Our functional expertise enables us to provide assistance with all aspects of restricted stock trading, rules and regulations. Senior-level specialists facilitate trading of large and/or thinly traded positions for our clients.

Our corporate services group manages the open-market repurchase of shares for the firm’s corporate clients while ensuring compliance with SEC Rule 10(b)-18. Trading, settlement, reporting and delivery processes are designed for the ease of our clients. We implement a strategic approach to repurchasing stocks and tailor this approach to suit each client’s goals and objectives.