Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown was the private client services division of Deutsche Bank Securities, the U.S. corporate and investment arm of German banking colossus Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank AG is a global financial service company with its headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. It employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries, and has a large presence in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific and the emerging markets...

. It is the organization successor to the 200 year-old investment bank Alex. Brown & Sons

Alex. Brown & Sons

Alex. Brown & Sons was the first investment bank in the United States, founded by Alexander Brown in 1800 and based in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was acquired by Bankers Trust in 1997 to form BT Alex...

, which Deutsche inherited via its 1999 acquisition of Bankers Trust

Bankers Trust

Bankers Trust was an historic American banking organization. The bank merged with Alex. Brown & Sons before being acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1998.-History:A consortium of banks created Bankers Trust to perform trust company services for their clients....

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Corporate Overview

The company provided a range of advisory, brokerage, research, and investment services to high-net-worth individual investors in the US. It performs research on more than 2,500 stocks, as well as corporate bonds and foreign securities. For corporate clients, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, acquisition finance, and project finance.
It is now defunct and called Deutsche Bank Investment.

See also

• Mayo A. Shattuck III
  Mayo A. Shattuck III
  Mayo A. Shattuck III is a notable American businessman, and currently Chairman and CEO of Baltimore-based Constellation Energy.- Career :...
  
  , who resigned under unexplained circumstances on September 12, 2001

External links

• http://www.alexbrown.db.com/
• http://contracts.consusgroup.com/categories/kicat_12537_0_1.asp
• http://www.hoovers.com/deutsche-bank-alex.-brown/--ID__12547--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml - Hoovers profile