Tilney Ltd.

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]

Tilney Investment Management Services Limited

Company type	Limited
Industry	Financial services
Founded	1836; 189 years ago (1836)
Headquarters	Chesterfield Gardens, London , UK
Area served	United Kingdom
Key people	Chris Woodhouse (Chief executive officer) Lee Dooley (Chief communications officer) Donald Reid (Chief operations officer) Permira
Products	Investment Management Financial Planning Investment Advisory Wealth Management
Number of employees	1,000 (2017)
Subsidiaries	Bestinvest
Website	www.tilney.co.uk

History

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]