UBS Sues Former Advisor

Posted on June 11th, 2020 at 4:22 PM

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

UBS Wealth Management USA has filed a lawsuit against former advisor, Alexandra VanMeurs.  After 13 years at UBS, VanMeurs left the firm in May to join Morgan Stanley. UBS is seeking to enjoin VanMeurs from calling clients she serviced at UBS. Although such lawsuits are not uncommon in the industry, the case has an interesting twist.  

The UBS lawsuit focuses on an alleged breach of contract in regards to clients that UBS says VanMeurs inherited from a retiring broker. UBS claims that the inherited clients amounted to at least $180 million of VanMeurs’ client assets. UBS claims that VanMeurs signed a “receiving agreement” when she inherited the clients.  According to UBS, the “receiving agreement” as well as the other agreements VanMeurs signed with UBS, prohibit her from soliciting client accounts for at least six months to 1 year after leaving the firm. 

While at UBS, VanMeurs had $420 million in assets under management and generated $3.74 million in revenue. According to UBS, VanMeurs has already transferred more than $97 million of those assets to Morgan Stanley.

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