Veteran banker Joseph Chee has resigned as UBS’s head of Asia Pacific investment banking, a person at the Swiss bank confirmed to FinanceAsia on Friday. Another UBS ECM banker said he was told of the departure yesterday.
Chee’s official title was head of corporate client solutions CCS for Asia. CCS is the Swiss lender’s de-facto investment banking unit, encompassing capital markets and advisory. Promoted to co-head of CCS with Saurabh Beniwal in November 2015, Chee became sole head in 2016 after Beniwal departed.
Chee is moving to buy-side, becoming the latest big name to leave banking. He also follows several other senior investment...