subsidiary industry diversified financials founded hong kong 1986 headquarters hong kong hong kong number of locations 25 2016 area served worldwide key people jonathan slone chairman and ceo products financial services brands clsa s investor forums services equity broking corporate finance & capital markets and asset management . number of employees 1 400 2014 parent citic securities website www.clsa.com clsa credit lyonnais securities asia is a brokerage and investment groups focused on institutional brokerage investment banking and asset management for corporate and institutional clients around the world . 1 2 founded in 1986 clsa credit lyonnais securities asia has its headquarters in hong kong and offices or representatives in 15 cities across the asia pacific region as well as amsterdam boston chicago new york london and san francisco . the parent company is citic securities china s largest brokerage . contents 1 history 2 locations and staffing 3 clsa s investor forums 4 references 5 external links history edit in 1986 winfull laing & cruickshank securities began operations in hong kong with former business journalist jim walker as chairman . the small brokerage was a 50 50 joint venture between the woo hon fai family and alexander laing & cruickshank . walker was soon joined by two other former journalists gary coull as head of the dealing room and malcolm surry as head of research . all three had worked at the south china morning post ; neither coull nor surry had any experience in brokering . the following year cr dit lyonnais acquired alexander laing & cruickshank and after various iterations walker s start up emerged in 1989 as credit lyonnais securities asia . but relations with the french giant which was about to be engulfed by a series of major financial scandals soon became impossible according to coull and he and walker resigned . they were persuaded to return in exchange for a 35 % stake in the company and guarantees of independence . clsa was majority owned 65 % by cr dit agricole france s largest retail banking group with the remainder held by staff until 2012 . that year cr dit agricole sold a 19.9 percent stake to the chinese firm citic securities . 3 on july 31 2013 citic securities acquired the remaining 80.1 % of clsa from cr dit agricole to become the majority shareholder of clsa . controversies that have hit the firm include the securities and futures commission reprimand in may 2004 ; asiamoney vote rigging email in 2005 ; and allen lam insider trading conviction in july 2009 4 5 6 locations and staffing edit with headquarters in hong kong clsa has offices or representatives in 21 other cities around the world sydney australia beijing shanghai and shenzhen china mumbai and pune india jakarta indonesia tokyo japan seoul korea kuala lumpur malaysia port louis mauritius manila philippines singapore singapore taipei taiwan bangkok thailand london united kingdom amsterdam netherlands boston chicago new york and san francisco united states of america . its 1 850 staff include more than 150 analysts covering 1 200 asian companies across 13 sectors . in taipei clsa had been represented by credit agricole securities taiwan . clsa s investor forums edit clsa s renowned investor forums are unrivalled for their content corporate access and investor insights . these invitation only events attract thousands of institutional investors to asia each year from across the globe . the 23rd clsa investors forum from 19 23 september 2016 will feature nobel prize laureate joseph stiglitz economist and scholar robert gordon financial times columnist john plender pollster and author frank luntz and many more specialist speakers . references edit gary coull obituaries the times 1 ft 2 and financeasia 3 asiamoney poll of polls 2009 requires subscription citic securities shares slump on planned 1.3 billion deal for clsa sfc reprimand asiamoney clsa talks about that email requires subscription ft ex clsa banker admits hk insider trade external links edit clsa clsa capital partners v t e investment banks bank divisions of universal banks bulge bracket bank of america merrill lynch barclays citi institutional clients group credit suisse deutsche bank corporate and investment bank j.p. morgan & co. j.p. morgan cazenove ubs investment bank other berenberg bank bmo capital markets boc international bnp paribas corporate & institutional banking brown shipley cibc world markets citic securities clsa commerzbank corporates & markets cr dit agricole corporate and investment bank daiwa securities capital markets everbank world markets harris williams & co. hsbc global banking and markets ing commercial banking is investment kbc bank korea development bank daewoo securities lloyds bank corporate markets mitsubishi ufj securities mizuho corporate bank natixis nomura securities rbc capital markets rbs markets & international banking sberbank cib soci t g n rale corporate & investment bank standard chartered td securities unicredit corporate & investment banking vtb capital wells fargo securities independents bulge bracket goldman sachs morgan stanley other allen & company blackstone group brewin dolphin btg pactual centerview partners china international capital corporation close brothers group evercore partners everbright fbr capital markets galaxy greenhill & co. haitong securities houlihan lokey investec jefferies keefe bruyette & woods lazard macquarie group mediobanca moelis & company n m rothschild & sons oppenheimer & co. perella weinberg partners piper jaffray raymond james financial renaissance capital roth capital partners salam investment ltd. sandler o neill and partners stifel nicolaus stone key partners william blair & company category list retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title clsa & oldid 739809456 categories companies of hong konginvestment banks in chinaformer cr dit agricole subsidiaries navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 04 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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