Since the firm's beginnings in 1987, SMH has been active in helping companies build enterprise value. We participated in the growth of the southwestern economy during the late 1980s and 1990s and have devised funding for various management teams pursuing strategies of growth through consolidation. At the center of it all, of course, has been SMH's Investment Banking Group, bonded by a philosophy of active co-investment and partnering with emerging and expanding companies. And, in keeping with that philosophy, we've raised money for our investment-banking clients every time we said we would.

At SMH we provide the full range of investment-banking services: Underwriting of private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities, as well as financial-advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and recapitalizations. We specifically target a customer base of small- and mid-capitalization, dynamic companies, particularly in industries where SMH has developed a unique expertise: environmental and industrial services; consolidating industries; health care; oil and gas; construction; technology. By focusing on these core areas, we can deliver a "total product" - financial advice, funding strategies, industry-sector experience, research coverage, distribution capability - to managements with big long-term ideas.