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U.S. Public Offering Performance By Underwriter: January 1 December 31, 2007

Jan. 28, 2008
ALL OFFERINGS, ALL UNDERWRITERS, RANKED BY GROSS PROCEEDS*

Underwriter (Number Of Offerings As Lead/Number Of Offerings As Lead Or Co-manager)Gross Proceeds (M)

Morgan Stanley (11/12)$1,116.5
Bank of America Securities (6/11)$1,097.0
CIBC World Markets (7/14)$952.6
JP Morgan Securities (7/11)$926.9
Leerink Swann & Co. (0/12)$833.9
Pacific Growth Equities (4/12)$756.9
Deutsche Bank Securities (5/8)$699.5
UBS Investment Bank (12/12)$688.8
Merrill Lynch & Co. (7/7)$639.2
Lazard Capital Markets LLC (1/9)$611.0
Lehman Brothers (8/8)$574.5
Piper Jaffray & Co. (1/7)$533.3
Jefferies & Co. (3/6)$495.8
JMP Securities LLC (0/7)$462.8
Cowen & Co. (2/6)$426.8
Rodman & Renshaw (2/7)$368.9
Natexis Bleichroeder Inc. (0/3)$314.4
Credit Suisse Securities (3/4)$312.3
Bear, Stearns & Co. (5/5)$295.9
Fortis Securities (0/4)$228.1
Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. (2/5)$201.3
ThinkEquity Partners LLC (0/2)$198.8
Canaccord Adams (1/3)$161.6
Thomas Weisel Partners (0/2)$160.8
Goldman, Sachs & Co. (2/2)$160.3
AG Edwards Securities (0/1)$153.3
RBC Capital Markets (1/2)$140.7
Allen & Co. LLC (0/2)$140.6
Punk Ziegel & Co. (3/4)$137.7
Dawson James Securities (1/4)$136.7
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey (0/1)$120.0
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. (0/1)$120.0
Oppenheimer & Co. (0/2)$100.2
C.E. Unterberg, Towbin (1/2)$51.2
Montgomery & Co. (0/1)$50.0
Broadpoint Capital Inc. (0/1)$49.8
Susquehanna Financial (0/1)$44.0
First Albany Capital (0/1)$43.2
Needham & Co. (1/1)$40.1
Maxim Group LLC (2/2)$36.0
BMO Capital Markets (1/2)$33.0
Caris & Co. (0/1)$21.0
Blackmont Capital (0/1)$20.0
Desjardins Securities (1/1)$20.0
Dundee Securities (1/1)$20.0
I-Bankers Securities (0/1)$15.0
MDB Capital Group LLC (1/1)$12.0
Mercer Capital Ltd. (1/1)$6.3

* The offerings in this chart include only those that were completed on U.S. stock exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE or AMEX) from Jan. 1 Dec. 31, 2007. Gross proceeds include additional funding raised from the exercise of overallotment options, when disclosed.