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PALO ALTO, Calif. — October 7, 2003 — Alliant Partners, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisor to technology and life science companies, announced today the launch of its Private Capital Group, providing advisory services for private placement of securities. Jeffrey G. Berry, formerly a Managing...

Santa Clara, Calif., September 25, 2003 — Silicon Valley Bancshares announced today that Lauren Friedman will retire as CFO on October 17th. Chief Strategy and Risk Officer, Marc Verissimo, who has overseen the company's financial operations in the past, will take on the role of acting CFO until a r...

Santa Clara, Calif., September 22, 2003 — In support of its strategy to offer diversified financial services to a global client base, Silicon Valley Bank, the primary banking subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares (Nasdaq: SIVB), created the executive role of Chief Operating Officer within its Comm...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug 12, 2003 /PRNewswire-First Call via COMTEX/ -- On July 17, 2003 Silicon Valley Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIVB), parent company of Silicon Valley Bank and Alliant Partners, announced preliminary results that excluded any impact of a Statement of Financial Accounting Standards...

PALO ALTO, CALIF, August 11, 2003 — Silicon Valley Bank, a subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares (SIVB), announced today Steven Rubin joined the SVB Private Bank as director of business development. Rubin is responsible for establishing and maintaining new relationships on behalf of SVB. The SVB P...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IMPORTANT NOTE: Silicon Valley Bancshares (Nasdaq: SIVB) is in theprocess of performing a Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142impairment test on its investment-banking subsidiary, Alliant Partners, asperiodically required. Th...

Santa Clara, Calif., June 17, 2003 — Silicon Valley Bank, the primary banking subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bancshares (NASDAQ: SIVB), announced Tim Hardin is the new chief operating officer (COO) of SVB's Merchant Banking division and Scott Bergquist is Hardin's successor leading the Northwest regio...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 10, 2003 — Alliant Partners, a leading mergers and acquisitions advisor to technology companies, announced Richard Dalton has joined its team of senior advisors. Bringing over 20 years of investment banking and finance experience in the technology industry, Dalton will serv...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — April 17, 2003 — Silicon Valley Bancshares (SIVB), announced today Alex W. "Pete" Hart, former CEO of Mastercard International and financial services industry veteran, has been named Chairman of the Board. Hart will replace John Dean, who is widely recognized in the financial s...