Fast-growing S&W launches economic advisory practice

Skilled providers agency S&W has launched a brand new economic advisory wing to help authorities, company and authorized shoppers. The practice will likely be headed up by Jonathan Gillham and Schellion Horn.

Based initially as Smith & Williamson, S&W is a fast-growing UK accounting and advisory agency. After funding from funds suggested by Apax Companions took the agency again to independence in 2024, it rebranded as S&W, constructing on the agency’s authentic heritage.

The agency launched with round 1,800 staff throughout the UK and Eire – however it has since expanded to greater than 2,300 workers, together with 150 companions, throughout 19 cities and cities within the UK, Eire and France. This has partially been pushed by a fast acquisition marketing campaign, together with rising the agency’s enterprise advisory capability with a deal for ClearViewIP, and its non-public shopper tax providers with a transfer for Beechwood Companions.

Now, S&W has seemed to additional put these rising capabilities to make use of, with the launch of a brand new economic advisory practice. Supporting authorities and economic regulators, corporates and their authorized advisors, the practice will present economic advisory and impartial skilled providers for  advanced coverage, regulatory, competitors and contentious issues. It would work intently with S&W’s consulting, forensics and restructuring groups, reflecting rising shopper demand for rigorous economic perception delivered inside a multidisciplinary advisory providing.

John Rugman, head of advisory at S&W, commented, “The launch of our economic advisory practice is a major milestone for S&W. By embedding economics inside our broader advisory providing, we’re uniquely positioned to help shoppers on their most advanced regulatory, contentious and strategic challenges.”

The practice is headed up by Schellion Horn and Jonathan Gillham, who each be a part of the agency as companions. Horn arrives with greater than 25 years of expertise in competitors, regulation, coverage and disputes. She has acted as an advisor and impartial skilled earlier than courts and tribunals and has beforehand established and led an economic advisory practice at a big skilled providers agency.

She famous, “I’m excited to be becoming a member of S&W to launch and construct this new providing. What attracted me to the agency is its bold progress agenda and robust platform for collaboration. Economics more and more sits on the coronary heart of advanced business, regulatory and public coverage choices, and S&W has precisely the correct mix of experience to handle these challenges for shoppers throughout the private and non-private sectors.”

Gillham in the meantime has vital expertise making use of macroeconomic modelling and economic evaluation to coverage analysis, market impacts and disputes. He started his profession within the UK Authorities and labored in HM Treasury contributing to economic forecasting and tax coverage, earlier than transferring into advisory roles supporting shoppers throughout industries on market and dispute-related issues. He was chief economist at PwC and a member of the OBR tutorial advisory panel.

Concluding, Gillham added, “S&W presents a genuinely compelling alternative to use economic evaluation in a sensible, clear and commercially centered surroundings. I’m trying ahead to working with colleagues throughout audit, forensics and consulting to assist shoppers higher perceive economic danger, quantify loss and make extra knowledgeable strategic choices.”