Savant Wealth Administration, a Rockford, Ailing.-based registered funding advisor with bold plans for progress, has recruited Patrick Lawlor to function its new head of mergers and acquisitions. Lawlor joins from The Mather Group, one other Chicago-area RIA, the place he served as president and head of M&A.
Lawlor will assist Savant obtain its purpose of three-to-five instances progress over the subsequent 5 years.
The five-year progress plan was kicked off in earnest final spring following a minority funding by middle-market personal funding agency Kelso & Firm, and it included an natural progress and an accelerated mergers and acquisitions technique.
The agency’s acquisition of Virginia-based Alliant Wealth Advisors in July represented its first acquisition of 2022 and twelfth within the agency’s historical past. The agency accomplished 4 different acquisitions in 2022, together with World Pattern Monetary and Terry Lockridge & Dunn, each headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The RIA expects to speed up its tempo of M&A in 2023 and past.
“In 2021 we re-capitalized to supply Savant considerably extra progress capital to speed up from incremental to exponential progress,” Savant CEO Brent Brodeski stated in an announcement. “In 2022, we targeted on strengthening our advisory management group to raised place Savant for future progress. Now, we’re ramping up our progress engine by considerably increasing our M&A group, accelerating the dimensions and quantity of our M&A exercise, and growing cutting-edge expertise that can differentiate our consumer expertise and assist generate natural progress.”
“Many companies are aggregators which can be targeted on capital elevating,” Lawlor stated in an announcement. Savant’s strategy is to draw founder-driven, fee-only RIAs with a planning-first mindset and a need to stay related.”
As of Dec. 31, Savant had roughly $14.3 billion in property underneath advisement.