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Piper Sandler Companies — Piper Jaffray Companies — Shareholder Meeting (March 2008)

19 slides from Piper Sandler Companies's shareholder meeting presentation, Mar 25, 2008

  1. Slide 1: Amended and Restated Incentive Plan 2008 Shareholder Proposal

    PIPER JAFFRAY COMPANIES Amended and Restated Incentive Plan 2008 Shareholder Proposal

  2. Slide 2: Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

    CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Statements included in this presentation that are not historical or current facts, including statements about beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements cover, among other things, statements other than histo

  3. Slide 3: Mission

    MISSION Transformation to a capital markets model was facilitated by the sale of Private Client Services Within 14 months of the sale, we redeployed a major portion of the proceeds into key acquisitions, debt repayment and a $180 million share repurchase program To advance our mission, we are focuse

  4. Slide 4: Importance of Incentive Plan

    IMPORTANCE OF INCENTIVE PLAN A competitive compensation program is essential to our long-term performance Without shareholder approval of additional shares, we will: Have insufficient shares available to include equity as a meaningful part of 2009 annual incentive compensation Not be able to make th

  5. Slide 5: Building Employee Ownership

    BUILDING EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP U.S. Bancorp spun off Piper Jaffray Companies in December 2003 At spin-off, employees had essentially no PJC equity Unable to convert USB equity to PJC equity Cash award plan in lieu of PJC equity Increasing employee ownership principally through annual equity incentive a

  6. Slide 6: Annual Incentive Compensation

    ANNUAL INCENTIVE COMPENSATION Equity is in lieu of - not in addition to - annual cash incentive compensation Total compensation is comprised of base salary and a performance-based incentive Performance goals are established at the beginning of each year Incentive compensation is determined at the en

  7. Slide 7: 2008 Incremental Grant

    2008 INCREMENTAL GRANT Critical to driving long-term strategic plan In 2008 we intend to make an incremental performance-based grant to our Management Committee to drive our long-term strategic plan to create shareholder value We evaluated a number of alternatives and believe that an incremental equ

  8. Slide 8: 2008 Incremental Equity Grant

    2008 INCREMENTAL EQUITY GRANT Improving key measure of return on common equity 1Shareholders' equity minus $220 million of goodwill "pushed down" from U.S. Bancorp at the time of the spin-off Executive Equity Ownership Return on Equity Management Committee Performance-based Cliff vest upon attaining

  9. Slide 9: Dilution

    DILUTION Potential dilution from the additional authorized shares would be 5.3% based on 1 million shares requested and 18,753,548 shares issued and outstanding as of March 10, 2007 We have more than offset dilution from past grants. Our book value per share has increased 68% since our spin-off Incr

  10. Slide 10: Incentive Plan

    INCENTIVE PLAN Our objective of achieving a meaningful level of employee ownership has resulted in our current overhang Current overhang (outstanding employee equity grants and equity reserved for future grants divided by shares outstanding): 17.4% as of March 10, 2007, before the shares requested f

  11. Slide 11: Incentive Plan and Awards

    INCENTIVE PLAN AND AWARDS Currently, our Management Committee members do not have employment agreements which cover annual compensation or golden parachute payments in a change of control As we have disclosed in our proxy statement, perks for management are negligible Incentive compensation is direc

  12. Slide 12: Incentive Plan and Awards

    INCENTIVE PLAN AND AWARDS Vesting is determined by the Compensation Committee; historically all employee awards have three-year cliff vesting Awards are subject to cancellation for, among other things, termination for cause or failing to comply with certain post-termination restrictions Incentive Pl

  13. Slide 13: 2007 Peer Comparison

    2007 PEER COMPARISON Net Revenues ($ in mm) Pre-Tax Margin Net Revenue Growth Compensation Ratio 13

  14. Slide 14: Appendix: Additional Business Information

    APPENDIX Additional Business Information

  15. Slide 15: Focused, Highly Experienced Management Team

    FOCUSED, HIGHLY EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT TEAM Piper Jaffray Management Committee Andrew Duff Chairman and Chief Executive Officer More than 25 years of experience with the Firm President of Piper Jaffray from 1996 to 2003 and Chairman and CEO post spin-off from U.S. Bancorp Bachelor's degree in econom

  16. Slide 16: Strategic Initiatives Overview

    STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OVERVIEW Sectors Continue to build out alternative energy, business services and industrial growth sectors Strengthen existing equity sectors Building public finance hospitality expertise and grow existing banking platform Geographies Extend public finance capability in select

  17. Slide 17: Financial Information-Continuing Operations

    FINANCIAL INFORMATION-CONTINUING OPERATIONS Net Revenues Pre-Tax Margin Diluted EPS 1 See Slide 19 for a reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures 1 1 1 1 17

  18. Slide 18: Financial Information-Continuing Operations

    FINANCIAL INFORMATION-CONTINUING OPERATIONS Compensation Ratio Non-Compensation Ratio Where noted certain adjustments have been made to make period-to-period comparisons more meaningful: 1Reported non-compensation expenses for 2005 were $141.4 million, or 33.6% of net revenues. These expenses includ

  19. Slide 19: Footnote (1)

    FOOTNOTE (1) In 2006 Piper Jaffray Companies recognized a $21.3 million benefit from a reduction of a litigation reserve, and in 2005 the Company recognized an $8.6 million restructuring charge. Management believes that excluding the impact of both of these items increases the comparability of perio

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