Article: A few familiar faces.(UP FRONT)(Company overview)

James S. Cassel sold his Coral Gables-based investment banking firm, Capitalink LC, to New York-based Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc.--and brings a familiar name back into the South Florida business spotlight. Phillip Frost, who founded Miami-based Ivax Corp., and was its CEO until Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. acquired it this year, is Ladenburg's chairman.

He isn't the only party with ties to the region. Ladenburg CEO Richard J. Lampen had been executive vice president of Miami-based tobacco and real estate firm Vector Group Ltd. Inc. since 1996. Before that, he was a law partner at Miami-based Steel Hector & Davis for three ...

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