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Ex-HSBC M&A boss joins old colleagues at corporate finance boutique

Florian Fautz left the UK bank in 2016, shortly after the arrival of the Matthew Westerman

Ex-HSBC M&A boss joins old colleagues at corporate finance boutique

The ex-head of mergers and acquisitions at HSBC, who left in 2016 as part of sweeping changes to its investment bank, is now working for a small corporate finance boutique run by former colleagues.

Florian Fautz departed HSBC in June 2016 alongside other long-serving dealmakers amid a reshuffle that followed the arrival of former Goldman Sachs partner Matthew Westerman, a divisive figure who had been brought in to overhaul the investment bank.

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