Smith & Williamson
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| Limited Company | |
| Industry | Professional services |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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David Cobb & Kevin Stopps, coCEOs |
| Products |
Accounting Corporate services Investment management Tax |
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Number of employees
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1,600 (including partners) |
| Website | smith.williamson.co.uk |
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.
Smith & Williamson is a UK member firm of Nexia International, a worldwide network of accounting, audit and consulting firms.
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).
Smith & Williamson has twelve offices in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Bristol, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Guildford, Manchester, Salisbury and Southampton, England; Belfast and Dublin, Ireland; Jersey; and Glasgow, Scotland, with the headquarter office in London, England.
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.
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