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Jefferies Group Adds Three Former UBS Executives to beef up European investment banking

Published: 22:04 08 Sep 2010 BST

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Jefferies Group (NYSE:JEF) announced the hiring of three former UBS executives at its London office to help expand the firm’s European investment banking business.  Dominic Lester has joined as a Managing Director and Head of European Technology and Telecommunications Investment Banking while Daniel Aharoni and Guillaume Taurignan has joined as Senior Vice President and Vice President, respectively, with both focusing on coverage of the European technology sector.


Before joining the Jefferies Group, Dominic Lester spent 20 years at UBS where he was recently a Managing Director and Head of Technology Investment Banking for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.  He spent his early career at UBS in United States covering technology and telecommunications companies. 


Daniel Aharoni has 11 year of investment banking experience and was recently an Executive Director at UBS in London in the Technology Investment Banking Group where he covered European semiconductor and technology hardware companies.  Before that, he was a Vice President at Dresdner Kleinwort in London in the Technology Investment Banking Group.


Guillaume Taurignan was recently a Director in UBS' European Technology Investment Banking Group in London and has more than seven years of investment banking experience. Prior to UBS, he was at Societe Generale in Paris in the Technology Investment Banking Group.


Jefferies Group is a global securities and investment banking firm with subsidiaries in the US and the UK. Jefferies & Company is the US operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group and Jefferies International Limited is the UK operating subsidiary.

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