Merrill Lynch - Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith

Headquartered in New York City, Merrill Lynch provides wealth manamagement, securities trading and sales, corporate finance, and investment banking services worldwide. The company was founded in 1914 by Charles Merrill who was soon joined by Edmund Lynch. In 1958, the firm changed its name to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith and joined the board of the New York Stock Exchange as the largest securities firm in the world at that time.

The firm went public in 1971, and in 1973 the firm became the first in the securities business to adopt a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co. as the parent of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the operating subsidiary. The firm was purchased by Bank of America in 2009 saving Merrill Lynch from bankruptcy. Now Merrill Lynch is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bank of America making Bank of America the largest financial services company in the world with more than 6,000 retail banking offices serving clients in more than 150 countries.

Merrill Lynch is a full-service securities investment firm licensed by FINRA. As such, Merrill Lynch has a legal duty to supervise its brokers and its brokers' recommendations to clients to ensure compliance with and prevent violations of the rules of the security industry. When an individual broker is negligent or acts in an unlawful manner against the interests of the client and that client suffers damages as a result of such wrongdoing, the firm may be held liable for the investor's losses.

The law firm of Meyer Wilson has the experience, expertise and financial resources to represent clients with investor claims against securities brokerage firms such as Merrill Lynch. Our firm represents clients with investor claims in federal and state courts, and in arbitration through The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and private arbitration. We also represent international clients with claims against brokerage firms in the United States through FINRA.

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