Roderick O'Neill Joins the Piper Jaffray Health Care Investment Banking Team

Roderick O'Neill Joins the Piper Jaffray Health Care Investment
Banking Team 


NEW YORK, July 2  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Piper Jaffray & Co. is pleased to
announce that Roderick O'Neill has joined the firm as a managing director in
its Health Care Investment Banking group, focusing specifically on the health
care services sector. O'Neill, who will be based in New York, has 11 years of
investment banking experience within the services sector and comes to Piper
Jaffray from UBS, where he was an executive director. He was with Salomon Smith
Barney for six years prior to that. O'Neill has a bachelor of arts degree from
Duke University, Durham, N.C.

"With his deep relationships within the health care services sector, Rod will
be a tremendous asset to the firm," said Jeffrey Hoffman, head of Health Care
Investment Banking at Piper Jaffray. "We look forward to him working with Dan
Gulbrandson in driving our health care services investment banking practice as
we continue in our current position as a leading growth company investment bank
in the industry."

"I am pleased to have the opportunity to work at Piper Jaffray with some of the
most talented and respected bankers in the health care industry," said O'Neill.
"I look forward to helping build upon the firm's strong tradition as a foremost
provider of investment banking services to health care companies."

In the last five years, the firm's Health Care Investment Banking Group has
participated in 100 initial and secondary public offerings and has raised over
$12 billion in capital for clients. During the same period, the group was the
advisor on 70 health care mergers and acquisitions valued at over $13 billion.

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Jaffray Companies (NYSE:PJC), is a focused securities firm dedicated to
delivering superior financial advice, investment products and transaction
execution within selected sectors of the financial services marketplace. The
company operates through two primary revenue-generating segments -- Capital
Markets and Private Client Services.  Investment Research, an independent group
reporting to the CEO, supports clients of both segments.  The firm serves
corporations, government and non-profit entities, and institutional investors
on a national basis and serves the financial advisory needs of private
individuals predominantly across the western half of the United States.  The
firm has approximately 3,000 employees in 111 offices in 23 states across the
country and in London, England. For more information about Piper Jaffray, visit
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