Evoke Advisors is buying Crescent Bay Advisors, a California-based multi-family workplace, boosting its capacity to supply household workplace companies to purchasers.
Evoke is a $25.3 billion RIA that works with ultra-high-net-worth people and households. It was based in 2019 by a number of breakaways from First Republic. The mixed agency shall be based mostly in Los Angeles, with further places of work in Orange County, Calif. and West Palm Seashore, Fla.
Based on Evoke co-founder and Managing Companion David Hou, the Crescent Bay Advisors deal will add a household workplace companies group for purchasers.
“We’re assured, based mostly on our lengthy historical past with the companions of CBA, that their experience and high quality of service will seamlessly combine with Evoke’s companies to assist the total vary of shopper monetary wants and safety of their household legacy,” Hou stated.
CBA founder and President Larry Abrahams will be a part of Evoke as a managing companion, together with Hou, Mark Sear, Eric Shiny, Darell Krasnoff, Andrew Palmer, Alex Shahidi and Damien Bisserier.
Based on Abrahams, the agency was happy to “formally formalize” its partnership with Evoke, which started with CBA’s founding in 2009 when Hou and his companions had been nonetheless affiliated with First Republic. CBA gives companies starting from property planning, private accounting, invoice pay and threat administration.
In 2022, Crescent acquired a minority funding from Service provider Funding Administration. The agency pledged to make use of Service provider’s connections to scale their household workplace enterprise, with Service provider Managing Companion Matt Brinker saying on the time that including CBA’s companies to Service provider companies was a “mutual win” for each companies.
In June, Service provider co-founder and Managing Companion Tim Bello informed WealthManagement.com the agency was within the strategy of finishing a recapitalization and anticipated to double its steadiness sheet (although companions wouldn’t be promoting any fairness in consequence). Service provider takes minority, non-controlling stakes in RIAs, partnering with about 100 companies since its launch about seven years in the past.
After the recap, the agency’s management expects to double the variety of investments over the following a number of years. (Bello additionally hopes to take the agency public in a number of years.)
Final month, Service provider introduced a minority, non-controlling stake within the Republic Capital Group, which offers funding banking help to wealth and asset administration companies. In October, the Service provider-backed Apollon Holdings, a South Carolina wealth administration agency with about $8.2 billion in managed property, merged with CIC Wealth, a Maryland-based RIA with about $900 million in advisory and brokerage property.
