Robertson Stephens

Robertson Stephens was a San Francisco-based investment bank that ceased operations in July, 2002 [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/07/08/daily64.html Robertson Stephens to close] ] [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A02E1DD1F3CF934A25757C0A9649C8B63&scp=1&sq=robertson+stephens&st=nyt THE MARKETS: Market Place; At Robertson Stephens, a Sale and Empty Desks - New York Times ] ] . Robertson Stephens was founded as Robertson, Colman, Stephens & Woodman [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-07-1999/0001038798&EDATE=] in 1978 and was an independent partnership until the late 1990s, when it went through a series of parent companies, eventually ending up with FleetBoston Financial Corp. Robertson had approximately 1,000 employees at the time it was shuttered by FleetBoston.Robertson Stephens underwrote 74 IPOs with a total value of $5.5 billion in 1999 and 2000.

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