Three Senior Bankers Join FBR Capital Markets' Investment Banking Team

John D. La Voie, Jorge Solares-Parkhurst and Brian D. Thom Join the Firm as
Managing Directors

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FBR Capital Markets
Corporation (Nasdaq: FBCM) (FBR Capital Markets), a leading investment bank
serving the middle market, announced today that John D. La Voie, Jorge
Solares-Parkhurst and Brian D. Thom have joined the firm as Managing Directors
within its Investment Banking division.
John D. La Voie has joined FBR Capital Markets' San Francisco office as a
Managing Director in its Financial Sponsors group and will lead the
development of the group's West Coast operations. He was most recently an
Executive Director of JPMorgan's Financial Sponsors group based in San
Francisco. Mr. La Voie holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Stanford
University and received an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College.
Jorge Solares-Parkhurst has been hired as a Managing Director within FBR
Capital Markets' New York-based Financial Institutions Investment Banking
team. Mr. Solares-Parkhurst was most recently a Senior Managing Director in
Bear Stearns' Financial Institutions group, and, prior to Bear Stearns, was a
Director in the Financial Institutions group at UBS. Mr. Solares-Parkhurst
holds a B.S.F.S. in international economics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of
Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Brian D. Thom has also joined FBR Capital Markets as a Managing Director
in its Energy & Natural Resources group and will be based in the firm's New
York office. Prior to joining FBR Capital Markets, he was an Executive
Director with JPMorgan's Mergers & Acquisitions group, focusing on the firm's
Energy Services and Mining & Metals clients. Mr. Thom received an
undergraduate degree from Concordia University and holds an M.B.A. from the
DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.
"We're committed to the continued expansion of our Investment Banking
platform," said James C. Neuhauser, Executive Vice President and Head of
Investment Banking at FBR Capital Markets. "These recent additions give us
even greater depth in two of our core industries and broader reach in our
Financial Sponsors practice. We will continue to leverage the strength of our
balance sheet and our market-leading position in equity capital markets to
reinforce, enhance and expand client relationships."
FBR Capital Markets Corporation, a majority-owned subsidiary of Friedman,
Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc., provides investment banking*, merger and
acquisition advisory services*, institutional brokerage*, research*, and asset
management and private wealth services. FBR Capital Markets focuses capital
and financial expertise on seven industry sectors: consumer, diversified
industrials, energy & natural resources, financial institutions, insurance,
real estate, and technology, media & telecom. FBR Capital Markets is
headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with offices in
Arlington, VA; Boston; Dallas; Houston; Irvine; London, England; New York; San
Francisco; and Sydney, Australia. For more information, please visit
http://www.fbrcapitalmarkets.com.
*Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., Inc.
SOURCE FBR Capital Markets Corporation

Media, +1-703-469-1004, media@fbr.com, or Investors, Paul Beattie,
+1-703-312-9673, pbeattie@fbr.com, both of FBR Capital Markets Corporation