Rick Leaman

摘要

After growing through acquisition, Europe's UBS Investment Bank decided that to make its mark in the tough US market, it had to beef up its M&A practice. Rick Leaman, co-head of global M&A, talks to Sophie Roell about the strategy that UBS used to compete successfully with the global giants UBS has been around a little too long to fit easily into the role of new kid on the block. But, according to Rick Leaman, co-head of global mergers and acquisitions at UBS Investment Bank, that is exactly the stage its US M&A business is at. "With respect to M&A in the US we are a relatively young firm," he says. Mr Leaman is fresh from a good week in which the bank did 12 deals globally: four each in Asia, the US and Europe, he reports. But he is far from complacent, saying: "We have done well and we are proud of our accomplishments but we have a long way to go."