Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
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- CEO
- Richard Brian Handler
- Full Time Employees
- 7,371
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Capital Markets
- Address
- 520 Madison Avenue New York City NY United States of America 10022
- IPO Date
- Mar 17, 1980
- CIK
- 0000096223
- Website
- jefferies.com
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- Jefferies Financial Group Inc. is a diversified global financial services holding company that operates through its primary subsidiary Jefferies Group, a leading full-service investment banking and capital markets firm; provides asset management services; and maintains strategic investments across various sectors including commercial real estate, energy, automotive dealerships, food production, and telecommunications. Jefferies Group offers investment banking advisory services encompassing mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, and private capital transactions; underwriting and placement of corporate debt, municipal bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, equity and equity-linked securities; sales and trading in equities, fixed income, commodities, derivatives, foreign exchange, and repo finance; research across equity, fixed income, and industry sectors; wealth management; prime brokerage; and corporate lending. The company serves corporations, financial sponsors, institutions, governments, high-net-worth individuals, and investors worldwide from its global headquarters in New York City; regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong; and over 40 offices across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, including major financial centers such as Boston, Chicago, Frankfurt, Singapore, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Founded in 1962 in Los Angeles by Boyd Jefferies, the firm evolved through key milestones including its 2012 merger with Leucadia National Corp., which formed the diversified holding company structure, and its 2018 renaming to Jefferies Financial Group Inc.; major holdings include a 100% stake in Jefferies Group for investment banking and capital markets, a 50/50 joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway in Berkadia Commercial Mortgage for commercial mortgage banking and servicing, 65% ownership of HomeFed Corporation for master-planned communities and land development, 49.9% in FXCM for online foreign exchange trading, 79% in National Beef Packing Company for beef processing, and interests in energy firms such as Vitesse Energy and Juneau Energy. Recent developments include a September 2025 expansion of its global strategic alliance with SMBC Group, featuring combined Japanese equities and equity capital markets businesses, enhanced joint coverage of large sponsor clients in EMEA for syndicated leveraged loans, SMBC's commitment to increase its equity stake in Jefferies to up to 20% via open market purchases, and approximately $2.5 billion in new credit facilities to support structured finance areas like EMEA leveraged lending, U.S. pre-IPO lending, and asset-backed securitization; additionally, in September 2025 Jefferies raised $912 million in new capital to bolster operations, technology infrastructure, and global expansion, while highlighting record investment banking and equities revenues alongside plans for $15 billion in assets under management growth through wealth management hires and AI-focused initiatives during its October 2025 investor meeting.
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