D.A. Davidson Companies is an investment banking firm founded in 1935 and headquartered in Great Falls, Montana. The firm offers a full range of advisory and execution services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, public and private equity offerings, senior and subordinated debt financing, and financial restructurings. Additionally, the firm offers to sell and buy-side advisory services which include the sale of companies or divisions, mergers, strategic partnering transactions, leveraged buyouts, management-led buyouts, acquisitions and fairness opinions. The firm caters to the energy, business products, and services, consumer products and services, financial services, information technology sectors.