11.   The only difference, notes Brian McGreevy, an associate editor for the newsletter, is that Price managed to woo clients with larger revenues.

12.   The suit also seeks damages against the three departing executives for breach of contract, referring to restrictive covenants in their contracts prohibiting them from wooing clients.

13.   Were he assigning sales staffers to woo clients, he said, he might think twice.

14.   Yet many bankers welcome the opportunity of such a conference to woo potential clients and gently nudge regulators into fashioning investor-friendly markets.