S. G. Warburg & Co. was a London-based investment bank. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The firm was acquired by the Swiss Bank Corporation in 1995 and ultimately became a part of UBS.
History
Founding and early history
This bank was founded in 1946 by Siegmund Warburg, Erich Körner and Henry Grunfeld.[1] Siegmund was a member of the Warburg family, a prominent German-Jewish banking family. Erich Körner became an authorized signatory of Bank Winter & Co. AG in Vienna, Austria in 1921.[2] Henry Grunfeld was a former industrialist in the German steel industry, and was also Jewish.