Wealth supervisor Waverton is to merge with rival London & Capital to kind a £17bn AUM wealth administration enterprise.
The businesses say the cope with deliver collectively the UK experience of Waverton and the worldwide wealth and Monetary Planning pursuits of London & Capital.
Waverton has expanded in recent times with the acquisition of a number of Monetary Planning corporations. In 2021 it acquired Scottish wealth supervisor and Monetary Planner Cornerstone Asset Administration and in 2019 it acquired London-based Timothy James & Companions.
The monetary facets of the merger haven’t been made public however non-public fairness agency Lovell Minnick Companions (LMP), a US non-public fairness agency investing in growth-oriented firms, and London & Capital’s majority shareholder, will take a majority shareholding within the mixed enterprise, the corporations stated.
Somers Ltd, the bulk shareholder in Waverton since 2013, will proceed as a major shareholder within the new enterprise.
The deal is topic to regulatory approval.
The corporations say the brand new merged enterprise may have an AUM of over £17bn and produce collectively two teams with “related client-focused cultures.”
Man McGlashan, CEO of London & Capital, might be CEO of the mixed enterprise.
He stated: “We’re genuinely thrilled to announce our merger with Waverton. Our shared dedication to a client-focused strategy aligns seamlessly, and we imagine this mix will elevate our means to successfully scale whereas delivering unparalleled shopper service, funding alternatives and wealth options.”
Nick Tucker, CEO of Waverton, stated: “The merger of Waverton with London & Capital is a vastly thrilling stage in Waverton’s evolution for our purchasers, our employees, and our shareholders.”
Spencer Hoffman, accomplice at LMP, stated: “The mixed expertise and skillsets of those two companies will present an enhanced degree of service for purchasers, making a agency with scale and differentiation. We look ahead to supporting Man and the proficient administration groups to broaden service choices, improve know-how capabilities and form a affluent future for our purchasers, workers and stakeholders.”
Rothschild & Co suggested London & Capital Group, Proskauer suggested LMP and Waverton Funding Administration Group was suggested by Spencer Home Companions.
London & Capital was established in 1986 as a specialist wealth and asset supervisor working with non-public and institutional purchasers. Primarily based in London, it has over £6bn in Belongings Underneath Administration and 130 workers. Lots of London & Capital’s non-public purchasers are worldwide.
Waverton Funding Administration Restricted calls itself an unbiased funding administration enterprise and works with non-public purchasers, monetary advisers, charities and institutional buyers. It’s headquartered in London, with places of work in Edinburgh and Glasgow and has over £11bn in Belongings Underneath Administration (AUM) and 175 workers. The group consists of Waverton Wealth Planning LLP and Waverton Funding Administration Ltd.
Lovell Minnick Companions has been investing in growth-oriented firms for 25 years. It has stakes in quite a few monetary corporations together with fund supervisor Matthews Asia and insurance coverage brokerage Charles Taylor. Since launch in 1999 it has raised over £3.76bn of capital, invested in over 50 firms and accomplished over 175 acquisitions. LMP targets growth-oriented, middle-market firms, with a selected concentrate on firms within the monetary companies, enterprise companies and monetary know-how sectors.
