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William Salomon
William Salomon was born in London in 1957 and educated at the Lycée Français de Londres and Westminster. He went on to study Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Subsequently he trained at Brown Shipley & Co. in London and Brown Brothers Harriman, New York, during which period he continued his education, obtaining a Masters in Law at Cambridge.
Following a period in banking with Rea Brothers, he studied at the Inns of Court School of Law and was called to the Bar as a member of the Inner Temple in the summer of 1986. He was a pupil in the Chambers of Neville Thomas QC at Gray's Inn, and left on the death of his father in June 1987 to take control of the family business clustered around Rea Brothers, the smallest of the accepting houses specialising in private banking.
He has been a director of a number of public companies in the UK and abroad whose activities include steel trading in Central Africa, production of bio-pharmaceuticals in Central Europe, and engineering in the UK. He has also sat on the board of a number of investment companies.
In 1999 he sold Rea Brothers to Close Brothers, whom he assisted with the transition, becoming Deputy Chairman of the asset management division. Subsequently he created Hansa Capital, a new fund management company emphasising strategic asset management.
He remains director of Hansa Trust, a UK listed investment trust in which his family has a significant stake; Ocean Wilsons Holdings, a publicly listed company incorporated in Bermuda with significant maritime trading interests in Brazil; and is a director of a number investment companies and also of an insurance business trading at Lloyd's.
He is a German citizen as well as being British, and retains strong connection with his family's home city of Hamburg. Married with two children, he currently lives in West London and on the Dorset/Somerset borders.
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