Executives at Homrich Berg, an Atlanta-based RIA integrator with $18 billion in belongings, will promote a minority stake within the agency to TPG Progress, the center market and development fairness platform of TPG, a San Francisco-headquartered personal fairness agency, the corporate confirmed.
The deal values the RIA at round $1 billion, based on a Reuters report.
Homrich Berg is presently backed by New Mountain Strategic Fairness, an affiliate of personal fairness agency New Mountain Capital, which made a minority funding in 2021. New Mountain will preserve its funding, alongside TPG.
In June 2022, Homrich Berg accomplished a debt capital revolver, elevating $75 million by means of a multi-bank syndication led by First Residents Financial institution. That deal allowed Homrich Berg to keep up majority management of the agency.
Final 12 months, Homrich Berg CEO Andy Berg stepped down from his place after rising the RIA integrator for practically three and a half many years. President Thomas Carroll took over as CEO earlier this 12 months, and the strikes had been a part of a deliberate, multi-year transition that started when Carroll was employed in 2020.
“Partnering with minority buyers who maintain a shared imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the agency permits us to proceed delivering excellent service and recommendation inside our unbiased, fee-only fiduciary mannequin,” Carroll mentioned, in a press release. “It additionally permits HB to stay the most important shareholder group, with our administration workforce retaining operational management, making certain that our mission of being a trusted monetary information for our shoppers stays intact.”
The funding will go in direction of new capabilities, enhancing shopper providers and recruiting expertise.
“Homrich Berg has seen robust natural and inorganic development during the last a number of years because it has expanded within the Southeast,” mentioned Jenny Tu, principal at TPG Progress, in a press release. “The Agency’s unwavering dedication to shopper service and a fee-only fiduciary method is a confirmed method for achievement and we look ahead to supporting HB’s imaginative and prescient for enhancing their capabilities and serving much more shoppers.”
In April, the agency employed Andrew Web page, a former director and companion at Focus companion Ancora Holdings Group, to guide M&A efforts.
Earlier this month, Homrich Berg employed Joanna Irwin as chief advertising and marketing officer. She changed Invoice Bolen, who returned to specializing in shopper service. Irwin joined from Randstad, a expertise firm, the place she was the worldwide CMO.