London | Dubai (DIFC) | Doha (QFC) | Zurich | Limassol | Singapore | Hong Kong

Executive Search for Private Banking and Wealth Management

Ateca Executive Search places senior private bankers, relationship managers, and complete teams for the world’s leading private banks and wealth platforms across the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. We work by retained and confidential mandate, with absolute discretion, and with a depth of market knowledge built over more than a decade inside this single industry.

7 OFFICES

ACROSS THE WORLD’S PRINCIPAL PRIVATE BANKING CENTRES

13+ YEARS

OF CONTINUOUS OPERATION SINCE 2012

DOZENS OF MANDATES

LIVE AT ANY GIVEN TIME, ACROSS EVERY MAJOR BOOKING CENTRE

ONE SPECIALISM

PRIVATE BANKING AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT. NOTHING ELSE.

Where we work

Our practice is defined by depth in four specific areas of private wealth.

Private Banking

Mandates for Market Heads, Team Heads, Senior Relationship Managers, and desk leadership across onshore and offshore booking centres.

Wealth Management

Platform leadership, heads of advisory, and senior client-facing hires at independent wealth managers and multi-family offices.

Family Office and Private Investment Office

Chief Investment Officers, principal investment professionals, and senior operating roles for single family offices and private investment vehicles.

Asset and Investment Management

Distribution leadership and senior product roles where the remit connects meaningfully to private wealth distribution.

A Single Specialism, Not a Divided Practice

Ateca does not recruit across industries. We do not divide our attention between sectors. Every mandate we run, every relationship we hold, and every candidate we represent sits inside private banking and wealth management — and has done since the firm’s founding.

  • Senior Private Banker & Relationship Manager placements
  • Executive Director & Managing Director appointments
  • Group Head and market leadership hires
  • Complete team transitions, with full visibility into combined book quality, portability, and revenue generation
  • Confidential, principal-led search for the most sensitive and commercially significant mandates

Our Markets

Our Markets

Ateca holds licensed entities in every jurisdiction that matters for private banking, and is structured to work across them without compromise.

Asia — Singapore and Hong Kong.

Licensed entities in each of Asia’s two principal booking centres, with direct relationships into the regional private banking community.

Middle East — DIFC Dubai and Doha (QFC)

A DIFC-licensed entity with resident senior leadership in Dubai, and a licensed presence in Doha’s Qatar Financial Centre supporting the broader GCC private wealth corridor.

Europe — London, Zurich, and Limassol

A licensed London entity for UK-resident mandates, direct presence in Zurich supporting Swiss booking centre searches, and a licensed Cyprus entity providing EU-wide access for continental mandates.

How we work

Ateca is deliberately structured as a senior-led boutique. Mandates are taken selectively, led personally, and delivered with the discretion private banking requires.

Senior-led throughout

Every mandate is led personally by a senior partner. Candidates and clients speak to principals, not research associates.

Mapped, not advertised.

We work by systematic market mapping and direct approach. Mandates are not posted to job boards.

Discretion as a structural principle

Our operating model, data handling, and jurisdictional licensing are built around the confidentiality obligations our clients and candidates hold.

A focused book

We take a limited number of active mandates at any time – a commercial choice that serves quality over volume.

The Hardest Placements in Private Banking, Made Simple

Team transitions are the most complex and highest-value mandates in this industry – and one of Ateca’s deepest areas of expertise. We have structured team moves spanning multiple booking centres and combined books in excess of a billion dollars in AUM.

Private Banking Life

Senior intelligence on the private banking market — three signals a week, read by senior bankers, team heads, and managing directors across every major booking centre.

Private Banking Hiring Across Asia

The reconfiguration of senior private banking teams across Singapore and Hong Kong. By Steve Slater, Managing Partner | Ateca Market [...]

Speak with Ateca

For mandates, introductions, or a confidential conversation about a move, write to us and a partner will respond personally.