Thomas Weisel Partners Group LLC looks beyond high tech to capture ‘money on the move’

With banks failing right and left, or merging with others to save themselves, Thomas Weisel Partners Group LLC is trying something different. The San Francisco investment bank, which made its name a decade ago taking dot-coms and other Silicon Valley tech startups public, diversified away from that highly variable line of work last year by buying Westwind Partners Inc., http://www.tweisel.com/ a Canadian investment bank focused on the energy and mining industries.

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