Imperial Capital, LLC is a full-service

Full service

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 investment banking

Investment banking

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 firm with offices in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, New York City

New York City

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, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston

Boston

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, Chicago

Chicago

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, and Houston.

Imperial Capital offers sophisticated sales and trading services to institutional investors and a wide range of investment banking

Investment banking

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 advisory, capital markets and restructuring

Restructuring

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 services to middle market corporate clients. Imperial Capital also provides proprietary research across an issuer's capital structure, including bank debt, debt securities, hybrid securities, preferred and common equity, and special situations claims.

Imperial Capital's market expertise and research coverage include the following sectors: Aerospace

Aerospace

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, Defense & Government

Government

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 Services, Airlines & Transportation, Business Services, Clean Energy, Consumer

Consumer

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, Energy

Energy

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, Financial

FINANCIAL

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 Services, Gaming

Gaming

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 & Leisure

Leisure

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, General Industrials, Healthcare, Homebuilding & Real Estate

Real estate

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, Media

Mass media

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 & Telecommunications, Security

Security

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 & Homeland Security

Homeland security

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 and Technology

Technology

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Imperial Capital has three principal businesses: Investment Banking, Institutional Sales & Trading and Institutional Research.

In December 2009, Imperial Capital acquired all of the investment banking assets of the Mercanti Group, an advisory firm specializing in merger and acquisitions and capital markets advisory.

In 2009, Imperial Capital acquired Petrobridge Investment Management LLC.

In December 2007, Imperial Capital acquired the ongoing business of USBX Advisory Services LLC.