Sources say that the Boutique Investment Bank Vinchasche rented Barclays Chawla in the United States.

Written by French David

People familiar with this issue said on Thursday that New York Partners (Reuters) -People familiar with this issue said on Thursday that the New York Consulting Partners (Reuters) -The Boutic Investment Bank, which focuses on the financial services industry, is appointed by Gutem Chaoula as a co -leader of his operations in the United States.

Chawla told the company in November from Barclays, where he was working as a global participant head for the group of financial institutions, that people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss this step, which was not publicly announced.

In Fenchurch, a subsidiary of the French Investment Bank Natixis, Chawla will work alongside John Sipp, the current head of the US Bank’s operations, who joined Fenchurch when he opened his office in New York in 2022.

Fenchurch and Barclays refused to comment.

Chalala has more than 30 years of investment banking experience, with the past five years in Barclays. Before that, he spent nearly three decades in Citigroup, including a co -head of investment banking services in the field of global insurance, according to his personal file LinkedIn.

Fenchurch was founded in London in 2003 by Malik Karim, a veteran manual and Secretary of the Conservative Party in Britain. After that, about 70 bankers in London, Paris and New York, all of them focused on providing advisory services for financial companies on integration and acquisitions, raised capital activity and shareholders ’activity.

The integration and acquisitions targeting American financial companies reached $ 137.1 billion in the first seven months of this year, led by the 24.25 billion dollar global payments agreement to buy WorldPay.

While the volumes decreased against the same period in 2024, the financial statements remained the third industry, representing about 13 % of the total American deals, according to LSEG data.

(Participated in David France reports in New York; edited by Matthew Louis and Jimmy Farid)