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British defense contractor BAE Systems Plc and
Smith & Nephew Plc, Europe's largest maker of artificial joints,
have both dropped UBS as their corporate broking adviser, the
newspaper said.
BAE confirmed in an email to Reuters that it had dropped UBS in
favor of Morgan Stanley as its corporate broking adviser.
Smith & Nephew selected Bank of America Merrill Lynch as one of
its corporate brokers along with JPMorgan Cazenove, which will
remain as the other broker, the Financial Times reported.
Standard Chartered Plc last year replaced UBS with Bank of
America Merrill Lynch as one of its corporate advisers.
Corporate brokers act as a link between a listed company and its
investors and can be a way into more lucrative advisory
business, such as fundraising and mergers and acquisitions.
In November 2014, UBS had agreed to pay 774 million Swiss francs
($803.07 million) to British and Swiss authorities and a U.S.
regulator to settle a probe into the attempted manipulation of
foreign exchange rates.
Mathew Cole from STI Consulting, advisers to Smith & Nephew,
declined to comment.
(Reporting by Luke Koshi and Ankush Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing
by Eric Walsh and Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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