Stifel Financial Corp., parent of the Stifel Nicolaus brokerage, announced Wednesday that it plans to offer 1.2 million shares of common stock through a public offering.

After the offering, St. Louis-based Stifel will have 29.75 million common shares outstanding, the company…

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. is boosting its public-finance group by more than 10 percent with the addition of seven former employees of Wachovia Securities.

Wachovia bought A.G. Edwards Inc. last fall and moved its securities division to St. Louis.

Peter Czajkowski, Stifel’s senior…

Stifel Financial Corp. said Wednesday that underwriters of its recently announced offering of shares by Stifel shareholders have exercised their right to purchase an additional 285,000 shares of stock from BankAtlantic Corp., one of the selling shareholders.

The 2.185 million shares…

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. has taken on five investment bankers who formerly worked for A.G. Edwards & Sons,  as the shakeout continues in the wake of  Wachovia Securities’ purchase of A.G. Edwards last year.

Two - Doug Rubenstien and Chad Gorsuch…