Carla Hall

Founded in 1988, Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sandler O'Neill & Partners Corp. and their ultimate parent is SOP Holdings LLC.Sandler O'Neill & Partners' Equity Sales & Trading team seeks to enhance liquidity, execute complex transactions, distribute securities and provide institutional investor exposure for hundreds of financial institutions. Sandler O'Neill is a market maker for over 425 NASDAQ financial stocks and trades equities on all active exchanges including the NYSE, NASDAQ, OTC Bulletin Board and Pink Sheets. They work with CEOs, CFOs and management teams on corporate buybacks, portfolio valuations, rebalancings and liquidations.Sandler O'Neill publishes detailed equity research on approximately 270 financial services companies. They primarily cover small- and mid-sized companies that are not widely followed by large Wall Street firms. Their research coverage focuses on the following industries: (1) banks and thrifts (2) specialty finance and credit card companies (3) asset management (4) e-Finance (5) investment banking firms and broker/dealers (6) REITS (7) mortgage REITs and (8) insurance.

Sandler O’Neill Mortgage Finance L.P. helps clients maximize the value of their loan and lease portfolios. The firm is a leader in the analysis, qualification and valuation of mortgages, mortgage servicing and real estate assets. The firm executes secondary market purchases, sales and securitization transactions for performing, sub-performing and non-performing residential, consumer, multi-family and commercial mortgage loans. In addition to transaction marketing and management, they provide superior underwriting and delivery services. With integrated computer systems, they analyze the servicing and supplemental loan databases, catalog underwriting, documentation information and structure and the price individual loans or pools of assets. They provide quarterly, semi-annual, annual loan and servicing portfolio valuations, which include static cumulative life-of-loan loss analysis, as well as mark-to-market and/or mark-to-model valuations. As part of the firm’s integrated approach to providing total balance sheet management, the team draws on Sandler O’Neill’s deep fixed income and investment banking resources and access to financial markets to deliver world-class analysis and execution.