JPMorgan Investment Banker Willsey to Retire After Three Decades

Kevin Willsey, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. global chair of investment banking and capital markets, is retiring after more than three decades at Wall Street’s largest bank.

Willsey, who formerly co-headed North America investment banking and led the global equity capital markets team, will step down at the end of March, according to an internal company memo reviewed by Bloomberg News.

Under his leadership, JPMorgan rose to become the top equity underwriter in 2008 and 2009, the memo showed. Willsey became global chair in 2013, as part of a management overhaul.

“He will be remembered for his fierce ...