UBS has been through multiple mergers in the past two decades and several strategic shifts since the 2008 financial crisis, but James Hartop is the personification of stability. He joined SG Warburg as a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) banker in 1995 after a summer internship there, and has been through all the various ownership and name changes to become in 2011 UBS’s co-head for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) of what was then called investment banking.
Following the latest changes announced in October 2012, UBS investment bank has been divided between investor client services and corporate client services (CCS). The CCS division includes equity and debt capital markets (ECM and DCM), financing solutions, and what has now been renamed advisory – Mr Hartop’s area of responsibility. That domain includes sector and country coverage banker teams, plus the traditional M&A advisory work, but CCS as a whole is intended to be a close-knit unit.
