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'''ROTH Capital Partners, LLC''' is a small [[investment banking]] firm<ref>{{cite news|url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/elon-musks-halo-effect/?_r=0|title=Elon Musk’s Halo Effect|last1=Swann|first1=Christopher|date=18 June 2014|accessdate=29 March 2015|publisher=The New York Times}}</ref> with headquarters located in [[Newport Beach, California]].<ref name=":0" />
'''ROTH Capital Partners, LLC''' is a small [[investment banking]] firm<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pv-tech.org/news/roth-capital-expects-34gw-of-solar-production-overcapacity-after-china-caps/2018/06/05/solar-production/?_r=0|title=roth-capital-expects-34gw-of-solar-production-overcapacity|publisher=PV-Tech News}}</ref> with headquarters located in [[Newport Beach, California]].<ref name=":0" />


The firm has been featured in many articles in well-known financial publications<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180305005809/en/ROTH-Capital-Partners-30th-Annual-Growth-Stock/|language=en-US}}</ref> - see Wall Street Journal]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pv-tech.org/news/roth-capital-expects-34gw-of-solar-production-overcapacity-after-china-caps}}</ref>
The firm was featured in the 2017 financial documentary [[The China Hustle]] for its role in underwriting Chinese [[reverse merger]] [[Fraud|frauds]] and for hosting what has been described as "bacchanals" in which emerging companies woo investors amid topless models<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2007/02/05/roth-capitals-leaze-to-please/|title=ROTH CAPITAL’S $LEAZE TO PLEASE|date=2007-02-05|work=New York Post|access-date=2018-05-19|language=en-US}}</ref> and extravagant music acts such as [[Kid Rock]] and [[Snoop Dogg]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11521750/ns/business-cnbc_tv/t/conferences-mix-business-hip-hop-pop/#.WwBAIEgvyUk|title=Conferences mix business with hip-hop, pop|date=2006-02-23|work=msnbc.com|access-date=2018-05-19|language=en}}</ref>
==History==
==History==
Since inception in 1984, ROTH has been a small and [[microcap stock]] underwriter.<ref name=":0" />
Since inception in 1984, ROTH has been a small and [[microcap stock]] underwriter.<ref name=":0" />


== Underwritter of Small and Microcap emerging companies ==
== Involvement with Chinese reverse mergers ==
ROTH Capital Partners, LLC (ROTH) is an investment banking firm dedicated to the small-cap public market and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA. [[The firm announces itself as Financing Innovation]] ROTH is a privately owned firm that has built a culture of success and innovation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/roth-capital-partners}}</ref>
Roth Capital was featured in the 2017 financial documentary [[The China Hustle]] which chronicled the firm's underwriting relationships with dubious Chinese companies that led to crisis-level losses for American stockholders in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis while making windfall profits for the firm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-capsule-the-china-hustle-review-20180329-story.html|title=Financial documentary 'The China Hustle' details alleged U.S.-China collusion|last=Goldstein|first=Gary|website=latimes.com|access-date=2018-05-19}}</ref>


== Parties ==
== Conferences ==
The firm's parties have been compared to the lavish parties of [[Drexel Burnham Lambert]]’s of the mid-1980s, which were nicknamed “The Predator’s Ball”.<ref name=":0" /> In February 2007, The New York Post reported that after a one-day conference, Roth took several hundred of its clients to the [[Buddakan]] in the Meatpacking District of New York for a Cancun-meets-Wall Street-themed [[lollapalooza]]. The primary feature of Roth’s event was the presence of “several dozen” topless Asian models, with the [[Ticker symbol|ticker symbols]] of the companies Roth underwrote body-painted on. A firm spokeswoman confirmed that the women were topless, describing them as “part of a plan to help everyone unwind after a really long, hard day.”<ref name=":0" />
The firm has a history of hosting investor conferences that are known as "different" and provide a level of content that investors find valuable.<ref name=":0" /> The most recent conference was held in March 2018 at The Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California [[OC Conference]]. The primary focus of the conferences is to provide a quick insight into the presenting companies and to give investors the ability to meet one-on-one with the companies' management.”<ref name=":0" />


Byron Roth is Chairman and CEO of ROTH Capital Partners, LLC. Under his management the firm has raised over $45 billion for small-cap public companies, as well as successfully completed many merger and acquisition and advisory assignments.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ocbj.com/news/2018/jan/08/oc-500-byron-roth/|title=Byron Roth featured in the Orange County Business Journal}}</ref>
The firm's chairman, Byron Roth, has been described as a "frat-boy" who "performs a middle-aged man’s stage-dive".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-jed-rothsteins-the-china-hustle-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-a-new/|title=Jed Rothstein’s The China Hustle pulls back the curtain on a new ticking time bomb in the financial markets|access-date=2018-05-19}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 23:32, 11 June 2018

Roth Capital Partners, LLC
Company typePrivate
IndustryFinance and insurance
Founded1984; 40 years ago (1984)
HeadquartersCalifornia, USA
Key people
Byron Roth (Chairman and CEO)
ProductsInvestment banking
Financial services
RevenueIncrease US $ 55 million (2007)
Number of employees
135 (2007)
Websitewww.roth.com

ROTH Capital Partners, LLC is a small investment banking firm[1] with headquarters located in Newport Beach, California.[2]

The firm has been featured in many articles in well-known financial publications[2] - see Wall Street Journal]].[3]

History

Since inception in 1984, ROTH has been a small and microcap stock underwriter.[2]

Underwritter of Small and Microcap emerging companies

ROTH Capital Partners, LLC (ROTH) is an investment banking firm dedicated to the small-cap public market and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA. The firm announces itself as Financing Innovation ROTH is a privately owned firm that has built a culture of success and innovation.[4]

Conferences

The firm has a history of hosting investor conferences that are known as "different" and provide a level of content that investors find valuable.[2] The most recent conference was held in March 2018 at The Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California OC Conference. The primary focus of the conferences is to provide a quick insight into the presenting companies and to give investors the ability to meet one-on-one with the companies' management.”[2]

Byron Roth is Chairman and CEO of ROTH Capital Partners, LLC. Under his management the firm has raised over $45 billion for small-cap public companies, as well as successfully completed many merger and acquisition and advisory assignments.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "roth-capital-expects-34gw-of-solar-production-overcapacity". PV-Tech News.
  2. ^ a b c d e https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180305005809/en/ROTH-Capital-Partners-30th-Annual-Growth-Stock/. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ https://www.pv-tech.org/news/roth-capital-expects-34gw-of-solar-production-overcapacity-after-china-caps. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/roth-capital-partners. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Byron Roth featured in the Orange County Business Journal".
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