Chandler & Company.

Chandler & Company was a New York investment banking house with offices in New York and Philadelphia. The Company issued bonds for many companies and countries, including Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, and Germany.

The firm was founded in 1914 by Percy M. Chandler, who remained head of the company until his death in 1944. The Company came into prominence in early 1915 when it offered $10,000,000 in German Imperial Treasury notes for public subscription as head of a syndicate of New York and Western bankers, despite escalating tensions between the United States and Germany due to World War I. The proceeds were held in New York banks to be used by German commercial agents as a basis for receiving loans to purchase merchandise for the German civil population. No purchases were permitted for materials that would assist the German Army or Navy. Another issue of German Imperial Treasury notes followed in 1916.

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