Ausaf Abbas Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Coombe Advisors was established by Ausaf to provide strategic, financial and investment advice to a network of clients and associated businesses, with a focus on family offices, the wealth management industry and growth businesses. Coombe Advisors assists stakeholders in evaluating their strategic challenges and options, advising management on executing business and financial plans and providing investment and financial guidance to a small number of UHNW families.

Ausaf's significant wealth management experience provides the foundation for his role as an Expert Witness working with Expert Evidence International Limited (EEIL), a partnership of experienced experts. Ausaf has worked on over a dozen cases with EEIL focusing on private banking, wealth management and investment banking/corporate finance.

London, United Kingdom

Brookland Partners provides innovative real estate investment banking solutions to the real estate markets in Europe and the Middle East. The team is headed by Nassar Hussain and composed of seasoned real estate investment and investment banking professionals with significant experience in arranging, analysing and structuring highly complex real estate transactions.

London, United Kingdom

SEO London is a not-for-profit organisation focused on improving access into the most competitive professions for students from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds. Every year SEO provides hundreds of outstanding undergraduates with direct access to the very best graduate employers in the City, as well as a comprehensive training, mentoring and networking programme to ensure that exposure leads to graduate opportunities.

London, United Kingdom

Multrees Investor Services is a specialist provider of consolidated reporting, investment administration and custody solutions to Investment Managers and Family Offices. It provides bespoke service solutions for clients, allowing them to provide scalable high quality services to their customers. Ausaf chaired both the Audit and Risk Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Company for several years.

London, United Kingdom

Ausaf was responsible for managing and growing Investment Advisors across EMEA, and for client and product matters. The coverage area included seven offices in six countries and the client base was largely sophisticated UHNW individuals and Family Offices focusing on discretionary investment management, complex investment products and investment solutions.Ausaf was a member of the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Management Committee and a Director of Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Limited. He also lead a team which appraised a major international private banking acquisition in 2009 and was responsible for assessing private banking opportunities in Japan with MUFG, Morgan Stanley’s largest shareholder.

London, United Kingdom

Ausaf was the head of a business which comprised 1,100 staff across 13 offices in 12 countries. The business was significantly restructured and refocused in 2001/2, which included the sale of Merrill's German private client business to UBS, and from 2003 the business entered a new growth phase.Ausaf was a Director of Merrill Lynch International Bank and Merrill Lynch Bank (Suisse), a member of the EMEA Executive Management Committee and the Global Private Client Management Committee.

Tokyo, Japan

Based in Tokyo Ausaf managed and lead a multi-disciplinary team which restructured the firm’s private client business in Japan. The business was significantly loss-making and the radical reorganisation involved, inter alia, the closure of 25 branch offices, the creation of a new call centre to manage small accounts and later the formation of a unique private banking joint-venture with MUFG.

Hong Kong

Responsible for the support functions and regional infrastructure of Merrill Lynch in Asia, covering the institutional, private client and investment management businesses. The region recorded US$1.2 billion of revenue in 2000 and employed 3,500 employees in twelve countries.Ausaf was a member of the Regional Executive Committee, chaired the Regional Debt and Equity Commitment Committees and was a Director of several Merrill Lynch companies and joint ventures in Asia.

Msc(Econ), Economics

Bsc(Econ), Economics