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After the acquisition, O'Connor & Associates continued to operate as a subsidiary of Swiss Bank Corporation. In 1998, Swiss Bank Corporation merged with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS. [3] As part of the merger, O'Connor & Associates was integrated into UBS's investment banking division. The firm continued to operate as UBS O'Connor. [4]
One North Wacker, UBS Tower is a 50-story (199 m (653 ft)) skyscraper at One North Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The tower was built from 1999 to 2002 to accommodate Swiss investment bank UBS AG 's Chicago headquarters.
Brinson Partners (later known as UBS Brinson) was an asset management firm focused on providing access for U.S. institutions to global markets. [1] The firm was founded by noted investor Gary P. Brinson in the 1980s and established as an independent firm in 1989.
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UBS PaineWebber logo in use from 2001 until 2003 when the use of the Paine Webber brand was dropped UBS Warburg was the brand used for the Investment Banking division of UBS from 1999 to 2003. On 3 November 2000, UBS merged with Paine Webber , an American stock brokerage and asset management firm led by chairman and CEO Donald Marron .
Initially the business was given the divisional name "UBS PaineWebber" but in 2003 the 123-year-old name Paine Webber disappeared when it was renamed "UBS Wealth Management USA." [ 52 ] The bank would grow considerably in the 2000s, building a large investment banking franchise to compete with the major US and European bulge bracket firms.
UBS also entered the life insurance business in 1993 establishing UBS Life. UBS formed a joint venture with Swiss Life in 1995, known as UBS Swiss Life. UBS took a 25% ownership position in Swiss Life in exchange for a 50% share in the joint venture. [5] UBS entered the 1990s clearly the largest and most conservative of the three large Swiss Banks.
111 South Wacker Drive is a high-rise office building located in Chicago, Illinois. Completed in 2005 and standing at 681 feet (208 m), the 51 story blue-glass structure is one of the tallest in the city. It sits on the site of the former U.S. Gypsum Building, one of the tallest buildings in Chicago to be demolished.