Type Limited Company Website smith.williamson.co.uk Number of employees 1,600 | Founded 1881 | |
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Key people David Cobb & Kevin Stopps, coCEOs Products AccountingCorporate servicesInvestment managementTax Parent organization SMITH & WILLIAMSON HOLDINGS LIMITED Subsidiaries Smith & Williamson Corporate Finance Limited | ||
Smith & Williamson is a United Kingdom accountancy firm. It is the eighth largest accountancy firm in the UK, with revenues of £213.9 million for the year ending 30 April 2015.
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Smith & Williamson is a UK member firm of Nexia International, a worldwide network of accounting, audit and consulting firms.
History
Smith & Williamson was founded by David Johnstone Smith and Andrew Williamson in Glasgow in 1881. The first London office was opened in 1893. Smith & Williamson combined NCL (Securities) Limited (a financial company in Ireland) in 2002 and Solomon Hare (a private accounting firm in UK).
Locations
Smith & Williamson has twelve offices in the United Kingdom Belfast, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Guildford, Manchester, Salisbury and Southampton, England; Dublin, Bristol, Ireland; Jersey; and Glasgow, Scotland, with the headquarter office in London, England.
Panama Papers
The company's activities came under scrutiny in 2016, when it was revealed that its employees had managed the Smith & Williamson Blairmore Global Equity Fund since 1997 Earlier in the year, HM Revenue & Customs won a court case against Smith & Williamson, over the treatment of "goodwill" payments made by the firm to a portfolio manager and his team.