Stone & Youngberg Expands National Footprint With New Midwest Office Space

Stone & Youngberg, a leading financial services firm and the nation's top underwriter of California and Arizona municipal bonds¹, announced today that it has moved its Chicago operations into new office space. The new space will triple the firm's Midwest footprint, allowing for continued growth in this key region of the country. This marks the second move in three years to accommodate growth of the Chicago-based team.

"Our new location gives us much needed room to expand as we continue to grow our Midwest business," said Kevin Schultze, director of the Portfolio Strategy Group and head of the Chicago office. "We've been staffing up for some time and see great opportunity in this environment to continue to build out our Midwest business."

The new office is located in a recently completed 46-story building at 155 North Wacker Drive, Suite 850, Chicago, Illinois, 60606 and can be reached by phone at [phone] or [phone]. The Stone & Youngberg Chicago office includes the Midwest Institutional Sales & Trading Group, along with the Portfolio Strategy Group, which provides portfolio-planning services to institutions and government agencies.

Stone & Youngberg, founded in 1931, is one of the oldest private investment banks operating in the U.S. The firm offers underwriting, advisory, and investment services across the country to state and local governments, non-profit organizations, and institutional and private investor clients through its offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Albany, NY, Richmond, VA, Annapolis, MD, and Big Bear Lake, CA.

For more information on Stone & Youngberg, visit www.syllc.com

About Stone & Youngberg: Stone & Youngberg Holdings LLC is a financial services company providing a range of products and services through two subsidiary businesses. Stone & Youngberg LLC, founded in 1931 and member FINRA/SIPC, specializes in the origination and sale of fixed-income securities. The firm led or co-managed the sale of 978 municipal bond issues totaling $20.4 billion over the past five years.¹ In addition to bond underwriting and sales, Stone & Youngberg provides investment services to individuals, institutions, and government agencies and offers a wide variety of tax-exempt and taxable securities. S&Y Capital Group LLC is a private real estate investment, development, and consulting company.

Stone & Youngberg has offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Phoenix, Albany, NY, Richmond, VA, Annapolis, MD, and Big Bear Lake, CA. Additional information is available at www.syllc.com or by calling 800-447-8663.

¹ Based on number of bond issues 2004-2008, 2009 year-to-date, Thomson Reuters 2009

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