Allegedly, there’s a possibility. From the mailbag:

Citadel Capital Markets is in talks to buy Soleil Securities for equity distribution and research capabilities. Citadel’s been sniffing around there for a while. Analysts (who were independent LLCs at Soleil) will be bought in. Integration to take a few months. Soleil name to go. Assuming this is a “just get out” deal for Bain and Bessemer. 2009 was awful and 2010 wasn’t setting up to be too good either.

Comments (14)

  1. Posted by CoveredLong | March 31, 2010 at 6:22 PM

    How does Tanya Bravio feel about this?

  2. Posted by WTF | March 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM

    Likely feels pretty badly about having had her email splashed all over the place. Or would, if she existed. Which she doesn’t appear to.

  3. Posted by guest | March 31, 2010 at 6:25 PM

    It’s a small world when you’ve got unbelievable tits.

  4. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 8:51 PM

    I hear no deal unless Citadel also takes on Shia’s option year.

  5. Posted by Anonymous | March 31, 2010 at 8:55 PM

    “Allegedly, there’s a possibility.”

    No, no, no. Here, I’ll show you:

    “My sources tell me.”

    Then you finish up with:

    “The situation is fluid.”

  6. Posted by wjcjr | March 31, 2010 at 11:43 PM

    Soleil? They can’t do better than that?

  7. Posted by guest | April 1, 2010 at 12:19 AM

    have you seen that place lately? scraping the bottom of the barrel

  8. Posted by OptionsTrader | April 1, 2010 at 1:47 AM

    @1 and @2 no comment…

  9. Posted by Jerry | April 1, 2010 at 2:47 AM
  10. Posted by Gozer | April 1, 2010 at 7:39 AM

    @9

    Would have been nice to know feb 16

  11. Posted by anonymous | April 1, 2010 at 9:54 AM

    heard soleil was approached by a bunch of firms. they recently brought on some good people and heard they were doing ok.

  12. Posted by Guest | April 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM

    Having smart investors like Citadel, Bain and Bessemer must say something about Soleil.

  13. Posted by Anonymous | April 1, 2010 at 11:29 AM

    smart acquisition by Citadel if true. Soleil has some very aggressive salesman. They dont take no for an answer. ABC- Always be closing, and they are closers

  14. Posted by the opportunist | April 2, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    @2 well obviously OptionsTrader (@8) exists unless google android has finally lived up to its name, and obviously tanya bravio exists unless citadel makes up email adresses.

    The question is, are they the same person?

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