The firm has added a number of figures to its business in the Northwest region of the UK, including in Manchester.

UBS Global Wealth Management has named Jane Booth in the UK as head of its Northwest region and Fahim Amdani as a director in its Manchester office.

Booth, who has been at UBS for four years working with entrepreneurs and their families across the Northwest region, previously trained and practised as a lawyer.

Amdani has spent the past five years as an advisor to a number of global family offices and business owners, focusing on mergers and acquisitions transactions and private equity investments into direct deals. Prior to this, he worked at JP Morgan and Barclays. 

In addition, Oli York, a UBS client advisor whose roots are in the North West, is relocating from Newcastle to UBS’s Manchester office. York has more than 10 years’ experience in the wealth management industry and has a degree in finance and investment management. Sara Hussain is also joining the Wealth Management team in the North West as part of UBS’s apprenticeship scheme, having previously been an apprentice at UBS’s Investment Bank in London.