Fenchurch Hires Barclays Veteran Chawla to Co-Head US Team

Fenchurch consultations, a UK boutique investment bank working in some of the highest profile financial services agreements, are taking a big step in the US expansion plans with the hiring of senior Barclays PLC banker Gautam Chawla.

According to Friday, New York -based Chawla will join the US office as senior general manager and joint head in November. Fenchurch said that he was the vice president of the financial institutions group in Barclays and the head of the global spouse.

In 2022, Fenchurch announced that he had created US operations with a New York office led by former Credit Suisse banker John Sipp. Malik Karim, the founder of the company, said that last year had “ambitious” plans to enlarge the business in North America. According to Friday, Fenchurch has more than 70 investment banking professionals between London, Paris and New York.

Chawla is the latest financial institutions that have left Barclays’ Investment Banking Department in recent months. In May, Bloomberg News reported that Gary Antenberg joined the Canadian Royal Bank to focus on insurance and alternative asset managers. More recently, interest in interest, Citigroup Inc.’in fig team was allocated.

The data compiled by Barclays, Bloomberg Show ranks fifth in financial services agreements this year as a consultant. KKR & Co. has worked on transactions, including the planned infrastructure provider Osttra after the planned $ 3 billion trade.

Chawla joined Barclays in 2020 after spent about thirty years in Citigroup, according to the LinkedIn profile.

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