Needham & Company's Private Placement Group helps entrepreneurs build companies through access to growth capital.  We raise late-stage and expansion capital for quality private and public companies with quality management teams.  We build and maintain relationships with private equity, venture capital, and "crossover" investors in order to align growing businesses with appropriate long-term investors.  Needham & Company is a relationship-driven firm, and we approach each private placement engagement as an opportunity to establish or enhance long-lasting partnerships among all stake holders.

Needham & Comany also has the capability to access private capital for public companies that, for various reasons, are better served by a private placement than by an additional public offering. These private investments in public equity, or "PIPEs" as they are popularly known, are executed through the combined efforts of our Corporate Finance professionals, our Private Placement Group, and our Institutional Sales organization. We focus on relatively simple transactions that avoid price reset features and other potentially dilutive structures.

Needham & Company has served as placement agent on more than 65 private offerings, which raised a total of more than $3.5 billion.

Michael K. Marshall 
Head of Private Placements

Mr. Marshall joined Needham & Company in 2002 as a Vice President in the Institutional Sales department. Prior to joining Needham & Company, Mr. Marshall worked for an asset marketing firm devoted to raising capital for alternative investments. Previously, Mr. Marshall spent 18 years at Salomon Brothers helping to build diverse product areas, including emerging markets, pension services, and liability management. Mr. Marshall has a B.S. in Political Science from Oklahoma State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.