Corporate Finance Appointment for Southwest Securities

Jeffrey J. Singer has joined Southwest Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of SWS Group, Inc., as Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Finance.

Southwest Securities' Corporate Finance group provides investment banking and other advisory services to corporate clients based in Texas and the southwest United States. These services include advising companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, management buyouts, and restructurings. The group also assists its corporate clients with raising new capital, including arranging private equity, mezzanine financing and publicly-issued common stock. Mr. Singer's responsibilities will include managing the group's strategic direction and growth and overseeing key client relationships, in addition to providing operational oversight and profit and loss management of the firm's corporate finance business.

"We believe that Jeff Singer will be able to significantly increase our investment banking presence in the Southwest," said Jim Ross, President and CEO of Southwest Securities. "He has the experience and abilities to provide excellent service to our corporate finance clients and lead our senior bankers as they seek to grow this part of our institutional business."