Origen the leading independent financial adviser, has acquired the financial services business of the 20 partner law firm, Thackray Williams LLP, for an undisclosed sum.

Thackray Williams employs around 150 staff at its Bromley Head Office and is the one of the largest firm of solicitors in Kent, offering a wide range of legal services to its Corporate and Private Clients. It had previously been one of around only eighty law firms in the UK to offer financial services linked to its core legal work.

For Origen, the acquisition represents further evidence of its stated aim of targeting corporate business and establishing professional connections.

Thackray Williams Managing Partner Simon Thackray says: "Origen are well known to us as a large, well resourced, fully-independent financial services business and we are confident they will provide our clients the advice and service we require."

Origen Managing Director Stephen Greenstreet says: "We are delighted to be working with Thackray Williams and have the chance to provide their Partners and clients with access to the established resources and skills within Origen.

“Our Professional Practice proposition is built around our belief in business partnership and is supported by a professional and dedicated team at Origen.”

Notes to editors

Origen

Origen is one of the UK’s leading providers of independent financial advice.

Origen’s principal areas of advice are:

• advice to small/medium sized companies including specialist planning for the owner-directors,
• communication and education to employees of large corporate clients including executive counselling services and pre-retirement seminars,
• private client advice and solutions,
• provision of advice to affinity groups such as newspaper readers.

Origen has significant expertise in the employee benefit and private client/high net worth sectors. It has its own Self Administered proposition, one of the largest advice based Retirement Services propositions in the UK, as well as Mortgage and Healthcare services.

AEGON UK

Origen is part of AEGON UK, which has assets under administration of £53.2 billion and employs over 4,000 staff. AEGON is part of the AEGON Group, which is one of the world’s largest listed insurers and has assets of approximately Euro 359bn (£250 billion).

For further information

Jon Atkins
Head of Media
T. 0207 200 2502 | M. 07740 897373
jonathan.atkins@aegon.co.uk