DRG&E and WJB Capital Announce Strategic Partnership
HOUSTON and NEW YORK, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Dennard Rupp Gray & Easterly, LLC
(DRG&E), a leading provider of advanced investor relations counsel and
innovative analytical services for public and private companies, announced
today that it has formed a strategic partnership with WJB Capital Group, Inc.
(WJB), a privately held institutional broker-dealer and a Member of the NYSE,
FINRA, SIPC and other principal exchanges. Under this strategic partnership,
WJB will provide DRG&E's clients enhanced access to institutional investors
and exceptional logistics on non-deal roadshows and events throughout the
U.S., Europe and Asia.
Ken Dennard, co-founder and managing partner of DRG&E, stated, "We are very
pleased to announce this unprecedented strategic relationship with WJB
Capital, a leader in Corporate Access Services. For over a decade, DRG&E has
been pioneering the next generation of best practices in investor relations
services from the traditional agency model to a more transparent and
compliance-based model created by the combination of proactive investor
relations consulting and superior analytical services. While we have been
marketing our clients to Wall Street since 1997, this new partnership with
WJB's Corporate Access team will greatly enhance our clients' visibility on
Wall Street while at the same time helping each lower costs associated with
being a public company."
Craig Rothfeld, WJB's Managing Partner and Executive Director, added, "WJB
Capital Group's premier trading and execution platform has been fueled by a
robust institutional Corporate Access model which has grown exponentially
since 2005. WJB does not engage in investment banking or writing proprietary
equity research linked to investment banking and instead serves as an unbiased
conduit to foster relationships between corporate management teams and our
institutional customers. This strategic partnership with DRG&E significantly
advances our Corporate Access Group's mission to partner with publicly traded
companies within the small and mid-cap space. The synergies created by this
collaboration allow our institutional customers greater access to management
via conference calls, site tours, field trips and customized non-deal
roadshows. We have already completed successful non-deal roadshows and events
with several of DRG&E's publicly-traded clients, and are very excited to begin
introducing and facilitating events for all their clients to a qualified U.S.,
European, and Asian institutional investor pool largely untouched by bulge
bracket firms."
About DRG&E
Dennard Rupp Gray & Easterly, LLC, headquartered in Houston with offices in
Atlanta and San Antonio, provides a full range of investor relations and
analytical services, financial media communications services and strategic
counsel to enhance the visibility, transparency and credibility of its clients
within the investment and business communities.
DRG&E expanded its traditional IR Counsel® in 2002 by introducing
InsideOutlook® and IR+®, ground-breaking services staffed by experienced
former sell-side research analysts. InsideOutlook provides public companies
unprecedented 24/7 access to experienced analysts who assist clients in
developing enhanced public disclosures that increase operational and financial
transparency, build management credibility, and help clients effectively
communicate the correct message to the investment community. IR+ provides
clients with a first-hand perspective on the way professional investors think
and work. DRG&E analysts offer both ongoing and project-specific strategic
consulting services. They also prepare quarterly packages featuring
valuation, peer group activity, trading and institutional ownership data for
internal use by management and their board of directors; along with a fact
sheet written specifically for professional investors that is a valuable
external tool for institutional investor marketing programs.
Founded in 1997, DRG&E currently represents over 30 public companies totaling
over $28 billion in cumulative revenues, over $15 billion in cumulative market
capitalization and an aggregate workforce of over 77,000 employees. For more
information regarding DRG&E clients or its services, visit the website at
http://www.drg-e.com or call 713-529-6600.
About WJB Capital Group
WJB Capital Group, Inc. is a privately held institutional broker-dealer and a
member of the NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and other principal exchanges. Founded in
1993, WJB offers an extensive suite of global trading and execution services;
agency equity and derivative executions, a dedicated corporate access team,
macro, technical, derivative, TMT and financial strategists, and comprehensive
commission management solutions. WJB operates its own live trading desks on
all major U.S. equity and option exchanges as well as in the global market
centers of Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and South
Africa.
Since 1993, WJB Capital has employed a partnership philosophy that focuses on
customer-centric trading and execution solutions to the buy-side. WJB prides
itself on building strong long-term relationships with customers and
proactively anticipating their needs. As a result, WJB has built equity and
derivative products and services that are mission critical to today's money
managers. For more information regarding WJB please visit
http://www.wjbcapital.com or call 646-344-4300.
IR Counsel, IR+ and InsideOutlook are ® registered trademarks of Dennard Rupp
Gray & Easterly, LLC in the United States
Contacts: DRG&E / 713-529-6600 WJB Capital / 646-344-4300
Ken Dennard / ksdennard@drg-e.com Charles Moreau /
Steve Gray / sgray@drg-e.com cmoreau@wjbcap.com
Deena Sullivan /
dsullivan@wjbcap.com
SOURCE DRG&E
Ken Dennard, ksdennard@drg-e.com, or Steve Gray, sgray@drg-e.com, both of
DRG&E, +1-713-529-6600; or Charles Moreau, cmoreau@wjbcap.com, or Deena
Sullivan, dsullivan@wjbcap.com, both of WJB Capital, +1-646-344-4300
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