David von Simson co-founder Europa Partners investment banking

David von Simson is the co-founder of Europa Partners and was formerly a Managing Director of Warburg Dillon Read (now UBS) in London, where he was Global Head of the Consumer Products and Retail groups.

He was successively Chief Executive, then Chairman, of SBC Warburg France, which was the leading foreign-owned investment banking, stockbroking and fund-management group in France.

Prior to the merger with SG Warburg in 1995, he was co-head of Corporate Finance at Swiss Bank Corporation in London with particular responsibility for the Financial Services and Media groups.

He is non-executive chairman of a number of AIM-quoted funds, including the Prospect Epicure J-REIT Value Fund, Qatar Equity Opportunities, and PME African Infrastructure Opportunities, and was the founding chairman of InTechnology plc, which floated on AIM in April 2000. He has also served as a non-executive director of Gardner Merchant Services Group plc, a leading food services provider in the U.K. and was on the board of Hill Samuel & Co. Limited.

David has an honours degree in Law from Oxford University and speaks fluent French and German.