51.   Lens supported a shareholder resolution to hire an investment banking firm to evaluate divesting all or part of the company.

52.   Lisa McClain, a secretary with an investment banking firm in Manhattan, coordinates group events at conferences and is the liaison between management and other secretaries.

53.   Lazard Technology Partners, the venture arm of Lazard, the investment banking firm, last week opened a Wellesley office.

54.   Merrill Lynch, New York investment banking firm.

55.   More recently, it has been buying up smaller investment banking firms.

56.   Messman, who has a master of business administration from Harvard University, also worked for cable and consumer products companies and investment banking firms in Houston and Philadelphia.

57.   Morgan Stanley, New York investment banking firm.

58.   Morgan Stanley, the investment banking firm, will represent Kohlberg, Kravis in the transaction.

59.   Most of the bust cycles in the semiconductor business resulted from an imbalance between supply and demand, said analyst Jim Barlage of the Smith Barney investment banking firm.

60.   Most said the industry will continue to consolidate and the biggest investment banking firms get bigger.