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Guggenheim Partners

Guggenheim Partners, Inc is a global investment and advisory financial services firm headquartered in New York City that engages in investment banking, asset management, capital markets services, and insurance services. Guggenheim has approximately 2,000 employees. The firm has additional offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. It facilitates deals in many financial and industrial sectors.

Guggenheim Partners was founded in 1999 in partnership with the Guggenheim family. Headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, it has more than US$330 billion of assets under management. The firm's CEO is Mark Walter.

Guggenheim Partners provides a broad range of services across asset management and investment banking. Guggenheim Investment Advisors oversees about $50 billion in assets.

Guggenheim advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, capital structure and capital raising, and on other strategic and financial transactions. The firm advises corporate clients, family offices, governments, and special committees of Boards of Directors. The firm’s transactions range across industries including consumer and retail, energy, financial institutions, healthcare, industrials, technology, and media and telecommunications.

In October 2009, Guggenheim hired former J.P. Morgan head of Media Investment Banking Mark Van Lith as Senior Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking and former Apollo Global Management director and vice chairman Henry Silverman as vice chairman of asset management.

In January 2013, Guggenheim named former Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn as CEO of private equity unit Guggenheim Digital Media.

In May and June 2013, the firm also hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s co-head of U.S. leveraged finance capital markets Tom Stein, former Barclays head of retail investment banking and vice chairman Andrew Taussig, as well as managing directors Spencer Hart, Matthew Pilla, Ken Harada and Ryan Mash.

In September 2013, Guggenheim Securities was named a financial adviser to Verizon in connection with its $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's 45% stake in Verizon Wireless.

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