BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPFH) (the “Company” or “Boston Private”) announced today that it has agreed to sell its entire ownership interest in Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, LLC (“BOS”) in a transaction that will result in BOS becoming majority owned by members of its management team. As part of the transaction, Kudu Investment Management, LLC (“Kudu”), a New York-based provider of passive, long-term capital to asset and wealth management firms, will acquire a minority interest in BOS alongside management.
“This transaction generates capital flexibility for us to redeploy into our Boston Private franchise, while enabling return of capital to shareholders. We are excited about opportunities to invest more directly in expansion of our Boston Private Wealth Management, Trust, and Private Banking businesses,” said Clayton G. Deutsch, CEO of Boston Private.
Boston Private will receive approximately $21 million of cash at closing and an eight year revenue share. Boston Private currently estimates that the financial impact of the transaction will result in a pre-tax gain of approximately $18 million and a related tax expense of approximately $3 million to $4 million. The net financial impact will increase Tier 1 Common Equity by approximately $33 million. The financial impact will be recorded at the time of closing, which is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2018.
BOS had approximately $4.7 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2018 and accounted for approximately $17.4 million of revenue in Boston Private’s Wealth Advisory segment, $11.9 million of operating expense, and $2.1 million of net income attributable to noncontrolling interests in Boston Private's financial results during the first nine months of 2018.
This transaction has been approved by the Company’s board of directors and is subject to obtaining client consents, and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Broadhaven Capital Partners, LLC served as financial advisor and Goodwin Procter LLP served as legal counsel to Boston Private in this transaction.
About Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.
Boston
Private Financial Holdings, Inc. is a national financial services
organization that owns Wealth Management, Trust, and Private Banking
affiliates with offices in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
San Jose, Florida, and Wisconsin. The Company has total assets of
greater than $8 billion, and manages over $22 billion of client assets.
The Company's affiliates serve the high net worth marketplace with high quality products and services of unique appeal to private clients. The Company also provides strategic oversight and access to resources, both financial and intellectual, to support affiliate management, marketing, compliance and legal activities. (NASDAQ: BPFH)
For more information about BPFH, visit the Company's website at www.bostonprivate.com.
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as a result of, among other factors, the ability to successfully close
the BOS transaction; adverse conditions in the capital and debt markets
and the impact of such conditions on the Company's private banking,
investment management, wealth advisory, and trust activities; changes in
interest rates; competitive pressures from other financial institutions;
the effects of weakness in general economic conditions on a national
basis or in the local markets in which the Company operates; changes in
loan defaults and charge-off rates; changes in the value of securities
and other assets, adequacy of loan loss reserves, or decreases in
deposit levels necessitating increased borrowing to fund loans and
investments; operational risks including, but not limited to,
cybersecurity, fraud and natural disasters; changes in government
regulation; the risk that goodwill and intangibles recorded in the
Company's financial statements will become impaired; the risk that the
Company's deferred tax asset may not be realized or may be reduced;
risks related to the identification and implementation of acquisitions,
dispositions and restructurings; changes in assumptions used in making
such forward-looking statements; and the other risks and uncertainties
detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and updated by the
Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings submitted to
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