Regis Partners inks co-branding deal with Jefferies

MANILA, Philippines — Regis Partners Inc. has established a co-brand agreement for its cash equities business with Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd., a subsidiary of the largest independent global investment bank, Jefferies Group LLC, headquartered in New York.

Under the agreement, Regis Partners will be the main platform to provide local equity broking services to Jefferies which will, in turn, distribute Regis’ equity research, on a co-branded basis, to its global institutional client base.

Regis Partners (formerly Deutsche Regis Partners Inc.) is one of the largest equity brokerage houses in the Philippine Stock Exchange. Its country-based team offers research, sales, corporate access and trading, and execution services to global and local institutional clients. Regis has received numerous awards for Best Equity House and Best Research House from institutions such as the Fund Managers Association of the Philippines and from publications including Institutional Investor and Asiamoney.

“We are pleased to join forces with Regis Partners Inc. in our commitment to continuously improve and expand Jefferies’ longstanding equity research, sales and trading business with an emphasis on serving the needs of our global investor client base. Regis is consistently recognized as the best-in-class Philippine equities franchise,” said Murray Wilson, president of Jefferies Asia.

“We at Regis Partners Inc. are very excited to work with the fastest growing equities house in Asia today. Combining Jefferies’ robust global platform and Regis’ “on-the-ground” Philippine expertise should bode well for the foreign and domestic institutional clients we both serve,” Noel Bautista, chairman of Regis Partners, added.

Jefferies Group LLC is the largest independent, global, full-service investment banking firm based in the US. Focused on serving clients for nearly 60 years, it is a leader in providing insight, expertise and execution to investors, companies and governments in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group Inc., a diversified financial services company.