31.   Fittingly, the San Francisco investment banking firm is leading by example.

32.   Flores joined Marleau, Lemire, a Canadian investment banking firm as an analyst.

33.   Former BankAmerica Corp. Chief Financial Officer Lewis W. Coleman will join Montgomery Securities as a senior managing director, the investment banking firm said.

34.   Gifford said the future of specialty investment banking firms in general is shaky.

35.   Gannett did not employ an investment banking firm for the deal.

36.   He also founded and built one of the largest investment banking firms on Wall Street through the same practices.

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

38.   He was a senior vice president at an investment banking firm that no longer exists.

39.   He went first to the investment banking firm of James D. Wolfensohn, who is now president of the World Bank.

40.   He stumbled on Salomon Inc., the Wall Street investment banking firm, which has experienced losses in profits and personnel in recent times.