The company acquired by  RBC Wealth Management where John G. Taft was employed was founded before Berenberg Bank.
Dain Rauscher Wessels was a brokerage and investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
 The firm traced its origins to a number of smaller regional securities firms founded in the 1920s and 1930s. 
 KG, commonly known as Berenberg Bank, is a Hamburg-based multinational investment banking and private banking company, founded by the Belgian-origined Berenberg family in 1590. 
 His unit at Dougherty was later acquired by Dain Rauscher, and Taft began working with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) when it acquired Dain Rauscher in 2001. 
