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Cassatt & Company
Cassatt & Company logo
Company typeAcquired
IndustryFinancial services
PredecessorLloyd, Cassatt & Company
Founded1872
FounderRobert K. Cassatt
Defunct1940
FateAcquired in 1940 by E.A. Pierce Merrill Lynch
SuccessorMerrill Lynch, E. A. Pierce and Cassatt
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (later Smith)
HeadquartersPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
ProductsBrokerage, investment banking

Cassatt & Company was a Philadelphia-based investment banking and brokerage firm founded in 1872. The firm was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1940, shortly after Merrill's merger with E.A. Pierce & Co. that created Merrill Lynch, E.A. Pierce & Cassatt.

The Cassatt name was dropped in 1940 when the newly combined firm acquired New Orleans–based Fenner & Beane.

History

Founding and early history

The firm, which was originally known as Lloyd, Cassatt & Company was founded by Robert S. Cassatt, father of railroad executive Alexander Cassatt.

By 1919, the firm had offices in Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

Acquisition by Merrill Lynch and E.A. Pierce

Main articles: Merrill Lynch and E.A. Pierce & Co.

In 1931, the firm split its investment banking business from its traditional brokerage business.

In 1934, Cassatt began discussions with E.A. Pierce & Co., the largest brokerage firm in the U.S. at the time about a potential merger. In 1935, these discussions resulted in a partnership between the two firms. As part of the deal, Cassatt transferred its brokerage business to E.A. Pierce and focused exclusively on investment banking and merchant banking.

In the late 1930s, E.A. Pierce began discussions with Merrill Lynch about a potential merger. E.A. Pierce was struggling financially in the 1930s and was thinly capitalized. Following the death of Edmund C. Lynch in 1938, Winthrop Smith began discussions with Charles E. Merrill, who owned a minority interest in E.A. Pierce about a possible merger of the two firms. On April 1, 1940, Merrill Lynch, E.A. Pierce & Cassatt was formed when the two firms merged and also acquired Cassatt & Co.

References

  1. "Alexander J. Cassatt". The New York Times. June 18, 1899.
  2. "Cassatt & Co. to Open Branch". The New York Times. July 1919.
  3. "Cassatt & Co. Form Underwriting Unit; Stock Exchange Firm Divides Investing Business From Brokerage Activities". The New York Times. August 1931.
  4. "Merger of Cassatt & Co. And Pierce & Co. on Way". The New York Times. December 1934.
  5. "Business & Finance: Personnel". Time. January 14, 1935
  6. ^ Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships. John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
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