ThinkEquity LLC is a U.S. investment banking

Investment banking

An investment bank is a financial institution that assists individuals, corporations and governments in raising capital by underwriting and/or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities...

 firm based in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

. ThinkEquity was founded in 2001 by Michael T. Moe and Deborah H. Quazzo as a growth focused research-centric investment bank. In April 2007, the firm was acquired by Panmure Gordon

Panmure Gordon

Panmure Gordon & Co. is a British corporate and institutional stockbroker and investment bank. The firm operates in three businesses: investment banking, research and institutional sales and trading...

, a London-based investment bank. After the merger, the US division of firm use THNK as its underwriter ID but have assumed the name ThinkEquity LLC, A Panmure Gordon Company as its company name.

Offices

ThinkEquity has offices in San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, Shanghai, and Chennai, India.

Areas of business

• Research: 22 senior research analysts, more than 280 companies under coverage as of January 2007
• Investment banking: full suite of M&A and equity services
• Institutional brokerage
• Wealth management

External links

• ThinkEquity LLC (company website)