[1] Just a month after the acquisition of the firm closed, PaineWebber announced the closure of the investment banking unit of J.C. Bradford & Co. in May 2000.

[3] Following the end of World War II, the firm expanded into new markets throughout Tennessee in 1946, including Memphis and Jackson.

In 1966, the firm merged with Elder & Co., based in Chattanooga, Tennessee and then expanded for the first time to the West Coast with an office in La Jolla, California in 1973.

[3] The firm faced another major economic crisis during the 1973–1974 stock market crash, experiencing its first loss since the Great Depression in 1974.

[3][4] According to The Tennessean, "J.C. Bradford & Co. helped a number of companies in Nashville successfully raise capital, including Shoney's, Amsurg, HCA, Central Parking, Healthways, Corrections Corporation of America, and Ingram Industries.