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About Us - Overview

Pacific Crest Securities is the leading investment bank focused exclusively on technology. The firm is a full-service investment bank, with over 120 employees, providing research, institutional sales and trading, and investment banking services to technology investors and companies worldwide. Pacific Crest is privately held. It is headquartered in Portland, OR, and has additional offices in San Francisco, Boston and Stamford, CT.

2007 marked our fifth consecutive year of record top and bottom-line financial performance. Pacific Crest Securities has received numerous awards for its expertise.  Institutional Investor has ranked us the #1  tech research boutique from 2002 - 2007.  Our analysts received the most votes in all technology categories. In addition, Greenwich Associates has ranked our sales group as #1 for tech from 2004 - 2006.  Our sales and trading group is the largest dedicated group on Wall Street.

Our Investment Banking group leverages our tech-only sales, trading and research platform to provide corporate finance and strategic M&A services to leading technology companies.  In 2007, we were a managing underwriter on 12 public offerings totaling over $3.5 billion including Alibaba.com, Data Domain, Mercado Libre and SuccessFactors.

We provide services in the following areas: