Warburg shows a slimmer profile

After months of delays, the New York Federal Reserve Bank is close to approving Swiss Bank Corp's merger with SG Warburg in the US. But there will be a lot less left to merge than originally expected. Uncertainty about the future of the US piece of Warburg, combined with a post-integration reorganization at SBC Warburg, has led to an exodus of investment bankers and analysts in New York.

The upshot is that Warburg now has a much smaller US equities presence. Among those who have left are two high-profile members of the management team, investment bankers Mike McCarty and Philip Keevil. The two had been recruited in 1991 to build up the US investment banking effort and co-headed the firm for a time.

Swiss Bank confirms that Warburg New York has lost almost two-thirds of its investment bankers, down from 64 to 25, and the number of equity analysts has also declined dramatically, from 32 to nine.

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