Sterne Agee Equity Capital Markets   We provide a broad array of capital market services to both corporate and public entities. Sterne Agee’s Equity Capital Markets Group acts as an intermediary between the equity issuer and the equity buyer. Our product suite includes initial public offerings (IPOs), private placements, block trades, buybacks, and market making in over-the-counter stocks. We serve both retail and institutional investors, with a focus on growing companies, public and private, and the employees and management teams of those companies. Every recommendation we make is guided by a highly-respected staff of senior research analysts with a combined total of more than 50 years of industry experience. Our analysts have a thorough knowledge of each industry they cover, as well as a complete understanding of each company, its management team, and its strategic plan.  In this way, Sterne Agee provides a focused, knowledge-driven approach to a full spectrum of investment banking and capital markets services.   Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Sterne Agee Equity Capital Markets has offices located in Alabama, Californa, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Virginia.