EXCLUSIVE-UBS hires Taylor Henricks as head of M&A in Americas from Morgan Stanley

By Lananh Nguyen

NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) - UBS UBSG.S hired Taylor Henricks as its head of mergers and acquisitions in the Americas as it seeks to expand investment banking in the U.S., according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Henricks will also serve as UBS' head of technology M&A after holding a similar role at Morgan Stanley. The executive will start at the Swiss bank in October and be based in Menlo Park, California. He will report to Jeff Hinton, the global co-head of corporate and sponsor advisory at UBS Investment Bank.

Since taking over collapsed rival Credit Suisse in 2023, UBS has made a push to grow in U.S. investment banking, a lucrative market in which American lenders are the biggest players.

"As we continue to make long-term investments in our Americas franchise to expand our footprint, enhance our product offering, and pivot towards high growth sectors, we are confident that Taylor’s expertise will allow us to capture even greater market share in this strategically important region," Hinton wrote in the memo.

UBS has hired senior U.S. bankers in leveraged finance, healthcare and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) in recent months, while also promoting new leaders in its groups focused on financial institutions, corporate sponsors and advisory.

Below is a list of senior UBS hires since March, who are all based in New York unless otherwise specified, according to a company spokesperson:

• Ryan Dawson, co-Head of leveraged finance origination for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)

• Carmine Visconti, head of TMT EMEA

• Alex Lim, head of biotechnology, San Francisco

• Tim Chung, head of biotechnology

• Noël Brown, head of biotechnology

• Ethan Sawyer, global head of media

• Brian DeLeo, head of equity capital markets (ECM) consumer tech

• Marina Pristupova, head of securitized products origination

• Evan Raine, M&A

• Kelvin Quezada, unified global banking, Americas

• Marco Guarino, global head of ECM syndicate

• David Larsen, application software

• Rob Michlovich, industrial and supply chain software

• Jeremy Murphy, consumer and retail

• Jacob Spens, vice chairman for global banking Nordics, Stockholm

• Peter Toal, global head of leveraged and debt capital markets