DALLAS, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SWS Group, Inc. (NYSE:SWS) announced today that its Southwest Securities, Inc. subsidiary has recently added a significant number of new investment bankers to its Corporate Finance team as part of a strategy to grow its investment banking franchise under the leadership of Jeffrey Singer, Executive Vice President & Head of Corporate Finance. Southwest Securities' Chief Executive Officer James Ross said, "After an initial period of assessing the opportunity for growing our corporate finance business, Jeff and SWS Group's senior management determined that a greater investment in highly skilled and experienced professionals was necessary to address the anticipated demand for these services within our target market. As with our other businesses units, there is an unprecedented opportunity to acquire talent today and build a valuable corporate finance franchise. Our new team additions reflect our continued commitment to this important part of our company." During the past two months, the Corporate Finance team has added three Managing Directors: Ben Koch, Paul Moorman and David Tomizuka. Before joining Southwest Securities in April, Ben Koch most recently served as Interim CFO of BroadStar Wind Systems in Dallas, and before that he worked in Citigroup's investment banking group covering Technology and Cleantech companies from Citigroup's offices in New York, Palo Alto and Dallas. Paul Moorman joins Southwest Securities from Lazard Freres' Energy Group in Houston, which he joined after working at Citigroup where he covered Energy, Building Products and other clients in the firm's Dallas and New York offices. Before joining Southwest Securities in May, David Tomizuka served as President of Valley-Dynamo, LLC, a division of Brunswick Corporation, and has built extensive executive experience in manufacturing and technology-driven businesses after starting his career at Bankers Trust in New York. Singer said, "We are excited to add Ben, Paul and Dave to our existing team of experienced investment bankers. These gentlemen bring decades of investment banking experience with major Wall Street firms and have collectively completed more than $50 billion of mergers & acquisitions, corporate sales and company financings for middle market companies and larger corporations." At Southwest Securities, the three new managing directors will focus primarily on serving corporate executives, boards of directors and investors in the Technology, Cleantech, Energy, Building Products, Manufacturing and Business Services industries. In addition to the new senior professionals, Southwest Securities has also added several junior-level investment bankers to further increase the transactional capacity of its Corporate Finance group. Singer added, "With our significantly expanded Corporate Finance team, Southwest Securities is now more than ever positioned to be a trusted advisor for businesses looking to achieve important strategic and financial objectives. Especially in today's turbulent economy, our clients highly value SWS Group's experienced team of professionals, solid financial stability, and our wide breadth of relationships with both companies and investors." Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, SWS Group, Inc. is the largest brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in the Southwest with nearly 1,200 employees and $4 billion in assets. More information about Southwest Securities' Corporate Finance Group, including the backgrounds of its professionals, can be found at http://corporatefinance.swst.com/. DATASOURCE: SWS Group, Inc. CONTACT: Jim Bowman, Vice President - Corporate Communications of SWS Group, Inc., +1-214-859-9335, Web Site: http://www.swsgroupinc.com/ http://corporatefinance.swst.com/

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