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Nick Blasi: The buyer is taking a substantial risk [in this environment] and should be allowed to protect themselves.

Suitcases of cash for RIA M&A deals are one COVID-19 victim, as RIA buyers leverage economic uncertainty to force more risk on sellers

Sellers are still getting paid at familiar sales prices, but some of the bad old days of 'earn-outs' are back, which delays the time when they can stop worrying about firm cash flow

June 24, 2020 at 2:05 AM

Bill Rice: With ... Boston Private, we were unable to find a mechanism that worked for both parties to deal with incentivizing key employees.

A maverick RIA and a bank walked into a bar in 2006, 2011 and 2014. It's all settling out in a 2018 M&A & spin-off pub crawl

Boston Private lets a $9-billion RIA buy itself back to free up cash to be used to roll up more bank-minded wealth managers this time around and Peter Raimondi is back in the game

May 14, 2018 at 8:05 PM

HighTower's advisors get a say in who buys the firm.

The HighTower Advisors 'for-sale' rumors grow to include a named suitor

Source says Oppenheimer is consummating a deal but observers question how HighTower could graft its roll-up onto the aging B-D

September 1, 2017 at 2:24 PM

Stone Point CEO Chuck Davis has insurer DNA having served on the board of The Progressive Corp.

Focus Financial's 'extraordinary' purchase of $16B-AUM SCS Capital and what Stone Point -- both buyer and seller in the deal -- may do to juice its investment

With Stone Point CEO Charles Davis now calling the shots, the RIA roll-up tacks to UHNW-directed RIAs, perhaps for their positioning in selling insurance

May 17, 2017 at 9:06 PM

Steve Braverman, co-CEO of Pathstone, downplayed any perception of Convergent advisors as damaged goods.

City National sells off salvaged remains of Convergent Wealth Advisors, but not before Convergent sheds nearly $7 billion of AUM

After a trifecta of traumas, Mark Hurley steps in to fund and help construct deal with Pathstone and PagnatoKarp; cuts a deal with four younger advisors to start segmented division

September 13, 2016 at 5:26 PM

Elliott Weissbluth: Liz and I are working the deal-making together. This isn't assigned downstream to a sales team

With a reminiscent fire, Elliot Weissbluth personally leads a new charge to buy RIAs

The CEO of HighTower, with a big assist from Liz Nesvold and a $150 million line of credit, is on the prowl for large practices

March 18, 2016 at 4:44 AM

David Selig: We worked to figure out what to do when both firms competed for the same clients. Finally, we just decided to compete.

Two RIA M&A firms merge -- sort of -- when they're not competing head-to-head

Park Sutton and Advice Dynamics Partners are trying out the power of two, without too much heavy paperwork

January 19, 2016 at 6:20 PM

Michael J. Cleary: One of the things our clients are going to be looking for in the next five to 10 years is what's next for Cleary Gull.

An $8.4 billion wealth manager emerges in Milwaukee after old RBC spinoff, Cleary Gull, finds local love

Johnson Financial Group adds 40 advisors and $2.1 billion but does a reverse branding merger

January 7, 2016 at 10:47 PM

Hellman & Friedman managing director Allen Thorpe was onboard during LPL's turbo-growth years.

Why the PE that helped take LPL public now controls Edelman Financial and plans to invest more heavily

Hellman & Friedman has assumed lead-player status from Lee Equity Partners, the latest move in key-man Ric Edelman's uphill quest to make himself obsolete

October 12, 2015 at 11:26 PM

Barbara Yastine left Ally Bank CEO role in June after the shares fell below the IPO price.

After pocketing $5.2 million in 2014 comp as Ally Bank CEO, Barbara Yastine joins Lebenthal as Frank Campanale exits

Alexandra Lebenthal takes the co-CEO role of the wealth manager and she intends to woo more female advisors

September 21, 2015 at 10:01 PM

Jim Nesci: If 1% of our customers were turned into wealth management clients, it's a new mechanism to feed a new business.

Why a suburban New Jersey bank and a white-shoe $1.3 billion RIA found love in Morrristown

A lousy lending market is stunting Beacon Trust's revenues; enter The MDE Group with its revenue-rich 200 ultra-wealthy clients

January 28, 2015 at 8:54 PM

Ric Edelman: Our thought was we'd hire a COO who could turn in a few years into a CEO. We've decided to accelerate that process now.

Wanted: New CEO for Edelman Financial whose name is not Ric Edelman

As Edelman grooms his firm for a sale, the timetable to replace himself at the chief exec spot fast-forwards by years

January 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM

Clayton G. Deutsch: If you know Peter Raimondi, you know we're not going to sit on cruise control.

As Boston Private and Banyan Partners merge, the Big Three roll-ups become the Big Four

Banyan's Peter Raimondi will lead the combined entity that could morph into a fearsome acquirer

July 17, 2014 at 4:23 AM

Mark Hurley: The goal for us is not to build up and flip.

After more than two years of radio silence, Mark Hurley pings with a stake-taking in an under-the-radar RIA

The writer of firebrand reports describes his own company as 'boring' -- questionably -- but lately has lived up to his billing

August 23, 2013 at 5:15 PM

We knew if we were successful with all three of these deals it would require a herculean transition efforts.

Banyan reels in two more RIAs pushing its assets across the $4 billion line -- now comes the challenge

Peter J. Raimondi gets closer to his dream of creating a national firm with acquisitions of firms with a combined billion in AUM

August 23, 2013 at 5:14 PM

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