1.   Lehman Brothers, the investment banking firm handling the sale, went to Harvester and objected on simple moral grounds.

2.   As envisioned, the two banks would have consolidated their corporate and investment banking activities, but spun off their vast and barely profitable retail banking businesses.

3.   At most five-day investment banking conferences, the crowd bails out by the last lunch and final speaker.

4.   Barclays Capital, the investment banking unit of Barclays PLC, London, named Thomas L. Kalaris chief executive of its Americas operations.

5.   BB Securities, the London-based investment banking arm of Banco do Brasil, hired Jamie Stewart from Deutsche Morgan Grenfell as head of equities.

6.   But it has yet to make a mark in equities, the core investment banking business.

7.   But the biggest surprise was in the corporate and investment banking operation, which had been subject to considerable turmoil after the merger.

8.   By the time those laws were largely repealed, it was the investment banks that were dominant.

9.   Critics say analysts too often initiate coverage only when their investment banking departments are trying to solicit business.

10.   He hired Game Plan Inc., the Boston sports consulting and investment banking firm, to analyze the Dallas Stars hockey team for him.