Detroit-based Telemus Capital, a Focus Monetary Companions agency, is ready to accumulate Ketoret Capital within the Chicago suburbs in a deal anticipated to shut within the first quarter of 2024.
Ketoret is led by CEO Kirill Vorobeychik, who based the observe on the Sanctuary Advisors platform final yr after 15 years with Merrill Lynch and eight with Citigroup. He’s joined within the transfer by COO Mary Teresa Roberto and Senior Relationship Supervisor Susan Wolfe, each companions in Ketoret.
Stateside, the crew presents bespoke monetary planning companies to public firm executives, enterprise homeowners and entrepreneurs, scientists and physicians, energetic and retired, and their multi-generational households and enterprise entities. The agency additionally has a distinct segment give attention to serving widowed and divorced ladies.
Internationally, Ketoret—a Hebrew phrase that means bonding or connection—additionally helps members of the Jewish diaspora who’ve emigrated or plan to to migrate to Israel—often called Olim—from the U.S., England or France, in addition to allies of Israel within the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and Christian supporters of Israel globally.
The Ketoret crew expects to “profit from the broader sources and infrastructure accessible by means of Telemus,” in accordance with an announcement.
“After a rigorous course of to determine a strategic associate, I felt there was an ideal match with a crew that had the identical degree of dedication to shopper care that our purchasers have develop into accustomed to,” Vorobeychik stated in a press release. “We count on this transaction to reinforce the companies and sources we will provide our purchasers, and to offer our crew with a seamless transition that can equip them with instruments to reinforce our purchasers’ experiences.”
Telemus CEO Lyle Wolberg added, “We’ve got gotten to know Kirill, his crew and their unwavering dedication to their purchasers, and imagine our corporations coming collectively will add proficient professionals and a robust base of purchasers to our rising crew in that wealth market.”
“This transaction will allow Telemus to proceed so as to add expertise to its crew and is one other instance of how we add worth to our companions by means of our M&A experience and in depth community of relationships within the trade,” stated Focus Co-Head of Partnerships and Enterprise Growth Pradeep Jayaraman.
With 53 staff, roughly half of whom are advisors, Telemus presently manages near $3 billion in property for round 1,400 purchasers.
The agency accomplished its first deal as a Focus associate in 2017, when it merged with Chicago-based Barrington Strategic Wealth Administration.
Since its founding in 2004, Focus’ acquisition mannequin has been to purchase 100% of the property of a agency, which retains a portion of its income earnings by means of a administration firm fairness construction. Following the sale of the agency to Clayton, Dubilier and Rice earlier this yr, nonetheless, the agency seems to have been providing to purchase out that fairness from current companions because it strikes to consolidate greater than 90 corporations right into a handful of its largest companions.
All three of the agency’s founders have departed within the wake of the sale.
