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UK's European Wealth Acquires Book Of Business

European Wealth, the UK-listed firm, has made another acquisition.
London-listed European
Wealth has agreed to buy a book of business held by
UK-based Towry Asset Management for a maximum consideration of
£1.0 million ($1.245 million), adding to a number of recent
acquisitions.
The assets involved in the acquisition were worth around £120
million at the end of March this year. In the full year to
31 March, the assets generated a profit of around £200,000.
In addition to the purchase price, European Wealth has agreed to
pay TAM an additional £200,000 for the benefit of a loan that TAM
owes to a consultant transferring to the company. That loan will
be set off against any bonus due to the consultant for a 12-month
period ending on 30 September 2017.
Clients holding the transferring assets are mainly based in South
Africa and the UK; the money will be run from London.
European Wealth said it aims to build upon the client base of the
transferring assets to extend its international reach, a
process that began in November 2014 with the acquisition of
P&C Global Wealth Managers in Switzerland.
The firm said that to satisfy the loan sum, it plans to raise up
to £300,000 through a direct share subscription by investors to
the company for up to 600,000 new ordinary shares at a price of
50 pence per ordinary share.
In September, European Wealth acquired Gibraltar-based CIMCO
Partners Management (CPML) for £750,000. CPML has around $22
million of funds under management and manages the G20 Absolute
Return fund, which will become European Wealth's third in-house
fund. As part of the deal, CPML’s vendor, Michael Mechas, will
join European Wealth, continuing in his position as lead
investment director of the fund. Mechas will join European
Wealth’s investment committee and help identify international
acquisitions. He will report to the recently appointed group
chief executive, John Morton, as head of international corporate
development for Europe and the Americas.