Bear Stearns hires two for structured equity in Europe

Bear Stearns has hired two managing directors in its London-based European structured equity products team. Shilpa Amin, who joins from Nomura, will be responsible for setting up a Ucits III Funds platform. Olivier Mathys will be responsible for certificate sales in Switzerland as part of Bear Stearns’s Best Markets certificates platform.

Bear Stearns says the Ucits-III platform will allow it to deliver a range of structured products to investors across Europe. Amin was an equity derivatives product structurer at Nomura and was responsible for product structuring and issuance. Prior to that, she was senior counsel for equity derivatives and equity capital markets at Merrill Lynch.

Mathys has four years experience in structured product sales having worked at JP Morgan Securities, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Credit Suisse