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The company was founded on January 6, 1914, when Charles E. Merrill opened Charles E. Merrill & Co. for business at 7 Wall Street in New York City. [11] A few months later, Merrill's friend, Edmund C. Lynch, joined him, and in 1915 the name was officially changed to Merrill, Lynch & Co. [12] At that time, the firm's name included a comma between Merrill and Lynch, which was dropped in 1938. [13]
On October 3, 2008, Bank of America announced that John Thain would lead the combined Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Global Corporate and Investment Banking enterprise. Thain was forced out by Bank of America Chairman Kenneth D. Lewis on January 22, 2009, because of the colossal losses visited on B of A due to its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. [44]
Additionally, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was named the No. 1 Global Broker by Financial Times/StarMine, as well as ranked No. 1 in the U.S. and Europe and No. 2 in Asia.
Later that day, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America for 0.8595 share of Bank of America common stock for each Merrill Lynch common share, or about $50 billion or $29 per share. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] This price represented a 70.1% premium over the September 12 closing price or a 38% premium over Merrill's book value of $21 a share, [ 52 ] but also ...
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Five years ago, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch, the nearly 100-year-old investment banking franchise. But it wasn't until today that Merrill Lynch officially ...
BofA Securities, Inc., [1] previously Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), is an American multinational investment banking division under the auspices of Bank of America. It is not to be confused with Merrill , the stock brokerage and trading platform subsidiary of Bank of America.
Merrill Lynch: BofA Securities: 2008 Ameriprise Financial: J. & W. Seligman & Co. Ameriprise Financial: 2009 Morgan Stanley: Smith Barney: Morgan Stanley (Morgan ...
acquired by White Weld & Co in 1974 and ultimately part of Merrill Lynch: Giuliani Capital Advisors: the investment banking division of Giuliani Partners was sold to Macquarie Group in 2007 Goodbody & Co. merged into Merrill Lynch in 1970 Gruntal & Co. acquired by Ryan Beck & Co. in 2002 H.B. Hollins & Co. liquidated in 1913 Halsey, Stuart & Co.