Company type | Limited |
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Industry | Financial services |
Founded | 1836 |
Headquarters | Chesterfield Gardens, , UK |
Area served | United Kingdom |
Key people |
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Products | Investment Management Financial Planning Investment Advisory Wealth Management |
Number of employees | 1,000 (2017) |
Subsidiaries | Bestinvest |
Website | www.tilney.co.uk |
Tilney was a financial planning and investment firm in the UK. It acquired financial advisors, Smith & Williamson, in 2019 [1] and the enlarged firm was rebranded as Evelyn Partners in 2022. [2]
The firm was established as a firm of stockbrokers by Thomas Tilney in 1836. [3]
Permira agreed to buy Tilney from Deutsche Bank, in February 2014, with the ambition of creating a wealth manager with £9 billion of assets. [4] After completion of the deal in May 2014 Bestinvest and Tilney combined to create Tilney Bestinvest. [5]
Tilney acquired Smith & Williamson with backing from Warburg Pincus in 2019. [6] and the combined company was renamed Tilney Smith & Williamson in 2020. [7]
In February 2022 the merged company Tilney Smith & Williamson, owned by private equity funds Permira and Warburg Pincus, was re-branded as Evelyn Partners. [8] [9] [10]
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