Providing business advisory services relating to business management and business operations in the fields of treasury and secondary public company offerings, initial public offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, valuations and fairness opinions, corporate restructuring, strategic alternative planning, and asset acquisitions and divestitures

Underwriting services, namely, underwriting equity and debt securities; investment banking services; banking services, namely, corporate banking, merchant banking, real estate finance, project finance, loan syndications securitization, namely, the purchasing, advancing, financing, administration, servicing, and collection of loans, mortgages, conditional sales contracts, accounts receivable and other assets through an asset securitization vehicle, the sale and trade of equity, credit and commodity derivatives, the sale and trade of foreign exchange currency, and the sale and trading of money market products; sales and trading services, namely, buying and selling securities on behalf of clients; equity sales and trading; investment dealer services; equity research services; research services, namely, providing financial investment research to clients; financial markets advisory services relating to corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations, and restructurings