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A Partial ListingGenesis Microchip, Inc. – Volterra Semiconductor Corporation – Palm, Inc. – We advise Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) on issues related to shareholder relations and corporate positioning vis à vis Wall Street on some of the company’s most significant and wide-ranging strategic initiatives. Viragen – Viragen, Inc. (AMEX: VRA) is a leading a biopharmaceutical company engaging in the research, development, manufacture and commercialization of technologies and products used for the treatment of infectious diseases and cancers in humans worldwide. Nagle & Ferri provides overall investor relations support and counsel to Viragen, in particular serving as client liaison to institutional and individual investors. Most recently, in support of a $25 million secondary offering in August 2006, the lead underwriter enlisted our support in developing and managing a two-week, seven-city road show throughout the U.S. Nagle & Ferri introduced client management to several, qualified investors, while generating numerous opportunities for other sellside firms to participate in the offering. iRobot Corporation – Following its IPO in November 2005, iRobot Corporation (Nasdaq: IRBT) retained Nagle & Ferri to help manage its inaugural earnings announcement and investor conference call as a publicly traded company. We worked closely with company senior management to ensure that the sustainable investment attributes of iRobot were understood fully in contrast to near-term challenges, underscoring the company’s market penetration and business development strategy. Analysts’ positive reaction and improved ability to model these key investment considerations enabled the prompt stabilization of trading after an initial, negative reaction to the quarter’s results Payment Data Systems, Inc. – An integrated payment solutions provider to merchants and billers, providing an extensive and technologically rich set of products that enable the delivery of world-class payment acceptance. Nagle & Ferri is working with company management to position Payment Data Systems for increased visibility, targeting appropriate institutional and retail investment firms while providing input on its investment messaging and presentation. In turn, we’re facilitating meetings with and presentations to potential investors. Tut Systems – A previous client referred this designer and developer of digital video processing systems (Nasdaq: TUTS), which faced immediate challenges in communicating (to investors and to Wall Street) the benefits of certain strategic initiatives it had undertaken. We initiated an extraordinarily successful initiative on Tut’s behalf, launching and managing – with only two weeks’ lead time – a three-week, five-city road show that generated a pipeline of prospective new research coverage by three investment banks, introduced client management to 100 qualified investors and established a proactive, ongoing investment marketing program, greatly improving the company’s position vis à vis shareholder value. Tegal Corporation – A referral from an investment banker, Tegal Corporation (Nasdaq: TGAL) is a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits and nanotechnology devices. Nagle & Ferri has helped Tegal manage two acquisitions and a corporate financing initiative. We also serve as the company liaison to institutional and individual investors. With Brad Mattson, the founder of Novellus and Mattson Technology, recently joining the company, we encourage investors to follow TGAL closely. Hewlett-Packard Company – We developed a management succession communication strategy for the restructuring at HP. |
Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of San Francisco – Frank Nagle provides public affairs and media relations counsel to BOMA. The primary focus of his efforts is helping BOMA continually reinforce its position as an important voice to be heard on political matters involving the local business community. Ramp Networks, Inc. – Months before Ramp’s IPO, we led the successful effort to establish internal procedures, as well as to bring in underwriters. We designed and implemented a program that moved the stock price to $34 from its IPO price of $11 and generated a depth and breadth of positive research coverage and market maker sponsorship. Subsequently, in order to attract Nokia (NYSE: NOK) as a possible suitor, we oversaw a successful effort to position (on Wall Street) the migration of the company’s business model. Nokia completed its acquisition of Ramp Networks in 2001. NBCi – (Nasdaq: NBCI) Bob Ferri worked closely with the founders NBCi’s predecessor, XOOM.com, an Internet-based direct e-commerce company acquired by NBC. He played a central role in XOOM.com’s investor relations program before, during and after the company's Initial Public Offering – one of the most successful IPOs of 1998 – as well as through two secondary offerings, the merger with NBC and a number of strategic and financial partnerships. Raybor Management – A previous client promptly called us upon joining Raybor, which owns and operates companies in the financial services, health care and marketing arenas. Within a few months, we helped create (and then market to investors) a significant value proposition. As a result, we recruited a strategic investment partner, playing a central role in the successful completion of a capital infusion that provides the client with substantial growth potential. ePIT Systems, Inc. – Nagle & Ferri provided ePIT, an Internet-based exchange technology company, with a range of services, including counsel regarding strategic alliances and acquisitions, corporate development, investor and media presentation preparation and investor and media outreach. Early in the company’s development, Nagle & Ferri brokered ePIT’s acquisition of another client, thereby enabling the ePIT to build an Internet exchange technology team and services, which served as the primary impetus for roughly $26 million in venture capital and corporate strategic partner funding. CoSine Communications – After successfully repositioning the CoSine Communications’ (Nasdaq: COSN) new management through a 60 percent cut in its burn, implementing an ongoing investment sales and marketing initiative and completing a reverse split necessary to maintain the company’s Nasdaq National Market listing, we helped to triple the company’s stock price in less than a year. ZiLOG – Now a publicly traded company, ZiLOG (Nasdaq: ZILG), a longtime provider of embedded technology, asked us when it was privately held to implement a bondholder relations IR program in an effort to reclaim its former prominence. We instituted a public-company level program that included “analyst days” at two of the company’s facilities, quarterly conference calls and continual outreach to bondholders and analysts. The program more than doubled the company’s bond price, and it generated substantial research coverage. The Pacific Exchange (the fourth most active stock exchange in the U.S., and the third largest stock options exchange in the world) – Nagle & Ferri helped to develop and implement the positioning strategy for the PCX’s creation of the first, fully electronic national stock exchange for New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq stocks. |
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