Investment Banking

The Firm's investment bankers have 30 years of experience in providing investment banking services to corporations and governments.

Historically, Kuhns Brothers has been most active in providing investment banking services to the electric power and power technology industries. Kuhns Brothers' clients have included many of the nation's investor owned, publicly owned and cooperatively owned electric utilities, as well as independent power and distributed power companies. The Firm has also represented companies in gas, telecommunications and other utility sectors, and in such related industries as equipment manufacturing and engineering, procurement, construction and infrastructure. In this industry, Kuhns Brothers is well know for its investment banking expertise in alternative energy, project finance and foreign transactions.

More recently, the Firm has focused its investment banking practice on raising capital for Chinese companies. Some of these Chinese companies are also power and energy-related organizations, but many reside in other, more diverse industries. The common factor in Kuhns Brothers' Chinese investment banking practice is the prominence of Firm's clients--most are the leading companies in their industries in China. In the recent past, Kuhns Brothers has represented China's leading manufacturer of electric transformers, hot water and space heating devices, waste-to-energy plants and sophisticated platform software.

For these clients, Kuhns Brothers provides a complete spectrum of investment banking services. In raising financing, the Firm's services include such transactional assistance as acting as an underwriter, placement agent or financial advisor for offerings and placements of corporate, project or government securities. Kuhns Brothers also advises clients with regard to mergers and acquisitions, the sales of corporate or power plant assets and doing business abroad. Through mergers and acquisitions, Kuhns Brothers has played a prominent role in many of the domestic power technology industry's most important corporate formations and consolidations.

The Firm has managed offerings and placements of securities for some of the domestic power technology industry's leading independent power and distributed power companies, as well as China's leading companies in many industries, and is recognized as an investment banking leader in these areas.

A selected description of some of the Firm's recent investment banking clients is set forth below:

• Integrated Environmental Technologies, Inc.
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• Auduromed
• Jinpan International, Ltd.
• Deli Solar (USA), Inc.