Merriman Curhan Ford hires Jonathan Lowenberg for private placements

By Marisa Wong

Milwaukee, Sept. 24 - Merriman Curhan Ford Group, Inc. announced the hiring of four senior investment bankers to help grow its investment banking platform and strengthen the firm's expertise in private placements, capital markets advisory and structured finance.

Jonathan Lowenberg has been hired as managing director and co-head of structured finance and private placements at Merriman's New York office.

"[Lowenberg] creates a positive dimension for our banking team as a senior advisor to our structured finance and private placement clients - adding to our already high placement-agent ranking by deal volume among investment banks," said Peter Coleman, chief executive officer of the broker-dealer subsidiary of Merriman, in a press release.

Lowenberg began his career as a director on the global private equity placement team at UBS Investment Bank in New York. He was also a managing director and head of private placements at Kaufman Bros. He led the origination and execution of private placement transactions within the alternative energy, digital media and internet industry sectors.

Prior to joining Kaufman Bros, he was a managing director at Natixis Bleichroeder as head of private placements. Lowenberg also covered private placements activities at Think Equity Partners in New York as a managing director.

Lowenberg earned his M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business and received a B.B.A. from Emory University.

The other three new investment bankers at Merriman's New York office are Andy Arno, Mark Green and Michael Marrus. Arno, vice chairman of the investment bank and head of capital markets advisory, was most recently the CEO of Unterberg Capital LLC. Green, managing director and head of technology and international banking, previously headed C.E. Unterberg, Towbin's banking efforts in Israel. Marrus, managing director and head of clean technology, natural resources and growth industrials, was managing director and head of investment banking at Collins Stewart and previously C. E. Unterberg, Towbin before joining Merriman.

Merriman Curhan Ford is a financial services firm with headquarters in San Francisco, focused on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors.

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