Esteves, the bank's largest shareholder, stepped down late on Sunday from all his executive duties at BTG Pactual.
Here are some facts about Sao Paulo-based BTG Pactual (>> Grupo BTG Pactual):
-- In 2009, Esteves and his partners founded Banking and Trading Group. The same year, they bought back Banco UBS Pactual SA from UBS Group AG (>> UBS Group AG), merging the units into Grupo BTG Pactual SA.
-- The partners who founded BTG Pactual with Esteves include Persio Arida, who was named chairman on Sunday, and newly designated co-Chief Executive Officers Roberto Sallouti and Marcelo Kalim.
-- About 70 partners own almost 80 percent of the bank's capital. Esteves has a so-called golden share, which gives him veto power on strategic decisions.
-- The bank had about 5,640 employees at the end of the third quarter.
-- Based on Monday's share price, BTG Pactual is worth 20.5 billion reais (£3.5 billion), making it Brazil's fifth-largest bank by market value.
-- In the first nine months of 2015, BTG Pactual's revenue rose 28 percent to 6.568 billion reais from a year earlier, while net income jumped 32 percent to 3.387 billion reais.
-- Assets rose 48 percent in the nine-month period to 302.8 billion reais, following the integration of Swiss private bank BSI Group into BTG Pactual's balance sheet. BTG Pactual announced the purchase of BSI in 2014.
-- The bank had shareholders' capital of about 22 billion reais in the third quarter. Long-term liabilities and equity accounted for only 23 percent of BTG Pactual's funding at the end of September.
-- BTG Pactual operates in 19 countries, including Chile, Colombia, the United States, Britain and Mexico.
-- Assets under management at BTG Pactual's money management unit totalled 231 billion reais at the end of the third quarter, up about 18 percent from a year earlier.
-- Esteves targeted average return on equity at about 20 percent. It reached a more than three-year high of 28.8 percent in the third quarter.
(Reporting by Guillermo Parra-Bernal, Tatiana Bautzer and Aluísio Alves; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)
