Inc. has an interesting article about finders - essentially, those who find financing and M&A opportunities that typically run under the radar of merchant and investment bankers.  Interesting quote:

Finders’ character and competence can vary just as widely. "They all have expensive suits, beautiful resumes," says Steve Crane, CEO of CorpHQ, a business incubator in Redondo Beach, Calif., who’s worked on the finder problem for the CEO Council, a start-up advocacy group for small public firms. "But how can you tell which are really able to help you?"

Hmm … thought we were talking about big firm lawyers for a moment there ….  :)