Weisel has roped in 175 chief executives, like Yahoo's Timothy A. Koogle, telecom guru Craig O.
Shafir, who was a lead banker for Cisco deals, now heads Weisel's mergers-and-acquisitions practice.
It would certainly be annoying but Weisel could take a financial hit like that.
By all accounts Thomas Weisel is a hypercompetitive guy who has been successful at every undertaking.
From what I could learn Lance, and Weisel, as well as team manager Bruyneel have always been close.
Now that Lance has made confession at the Altar of Oprah, what position does that put Weisel in.
Now that Lance has made confession at the Alter of Oprah, what position does that put Weisel in.
Weisel's firm helped oversee 79 stock underwritings and 14 merger-and-acquisitions deals last year.
Weisel, however, believes you can arbitrage the difference between wacky and very wacky.
And Weisel has recently poached leading managers of high-tech growth funds at Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management and John Hancock Funds.
Girish Tyagi, an analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners, pointed out the potential for competition in a note to investors last week.
Barry Gonder, head of Calpers' alternative investments program, says the fund was impressed with the star power on the Weisel fund's advisory board.
Shares closed up more than 12% after a Thomas Weisel Partners analyst said concert ticket sales are holding strong despite the weak economy.
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When Weisel offered Ochowicz a job at his investment bank, Thomas Weisel Partners, Ochowicz moved Verbruggen's account over with him, according to Ochowicz.
Weisel's approach would scare any value investor, but at least he has a bunch of sober-minded institutional clients who are putting money on him.
Although Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Tom Roderick called the third-quarter outlook a "touch light", he had a more temperate take on the company's results.
Nor did Tailwind's former chairman, San Francisco investment banker Thomas Weisel, or former Tailwind Chief Executive Bill Stapleton, who is also Mr. Armstrong's agent.
Shares of Apple had fallen in recent days after Thomas Weisel Partners and JPMorgan lowered their profit estimates for the company for 2009 and 2010.
Thom Weisel has done enough rainmaking in the technology sector over the past three decades to play the role of shaman himself if he wants.
Gerald Weisel, proprietor of Weimax Wines, a shop in Burlingame, Calif.
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"Cerner's been doing fine without the stimulus because there are billions to be saved by health care providers, " says analyst Steven Halper at Thomas Weisel Partners.
"At NationsBank, in effect, they were taking the entrepreneurial spirit away, " says Weisel, 59, who likes to brag that Montgomery never had a losing quarter, regardless of the economy.
At least one industry analyst, Jeff Osborne of Thomas Weisel Partners, has cut his stock valuation by 26% because he fears Evergreen will not be able to recover the shares from Lehman.
Under the leadership of Weisel, who invested large sums of his personal fortune, the United States Postal Service team became the most dominant and important team in the sport of professional bike racing.
Diagnostics will also be able to detect cancer earlier, before it has a chance to spread to the lymph nodes, says David Lewis, a partner at Thomas Weisel Partners who follows the sector.
Hoping to gain status in securities underwriting and get in on the tech boom, BofA bought Montgomery Securities in 1997, only to have its leader, Thomas Weisel, noisily decamp to form his own shop.
Other defendants in the suit, according to the person who has seen it, include Thom Weisel, the former chairman of the management company that owned Armstrong's cycling team, and Johan Bruyneel, his longtime team director.
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All that conceded, if you are given to speculation, you might consider these prime candidates offered by Weisel: Drugstore.com, leading online drug retailer, is already 28% owned by Amazon.com and is a featured retailer on the site.
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