The most
important move
of your career
deserves a plan.
More than 110 years combined inside the wirehouses, regionals, and boutiques that recruit advisor teams. We built careers there as financial advisors, branch managers, and regional directors. We were the people who used to try to hire you and retain you. We sat on the firm’s side of the table for decades. We are now on yours, advising the way an M&A team advises a founder selling a company.
Our track record, by the numbers.
The wealth management landscape is exceedingly complex. We help you navigate it.
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Wirehouses
Regionals & Boutiques
Independent Broker-Dealers
RIAs
Custodians
We are the advisor to financial advisors.We know you, know the space, know how delicate a transition really is.Because we were you.
First, we determine whether a move makes sense at all.
We establish how portable your book really is: which clients follow, what travels, and what a transition would ask of you and your family. Sometimes the honest answer is you are not ready. We say so, we lay out what readiness looks like, and we check in every quarter until the timing is right.
Then we run the due diligence, firm by firm.
A deep dive on the channels, the platforms, the technology, and the math behind every move on your short list. Three questions order the work: what is best for your clients, what is best for your team, and what is best for your family.
Last, we help you negotiate the deal and prepare your team for a successful transition.
We help negotiate the final terms on your behalf, then prepare every member of the practice for the move: the partners, the juniors, and the sales assistants who help carry your client relationships forward. When you announce, everyone is ready, and that preparation is what makes it land.
A letter from the founder.
I spent thirty-three years in wealth management. Eighteen years inside Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor, national training officer who helped train two thousand advisors in two years, branch manager, and complex manager. Ten years at JP Morgan as Regional Director for the Southeast. Then five years building Spartan.
I left because I wanted to be the advocate I wished I had had when I was an advisor on the other side of a recruiting conversation. I wanted someone to tell me the truth about the economics. The truth about the legal risk. The truth about whether my book was actually as portable as I thought. And I wanted someone neutral to hear the part advisors rarely say out loud: that walking out the door means not knowing which clients walk with you. A well-run transition keeps more than ninety percent of a book. A rushed one keeps closer to seventy-five. The difference is the work.
That is what Spartan is. Thirty-three years of experience, a network across every channel, and a process I put my name on: portability, due diligence, negotiation, transition. A firm on your side of the table, and only yours. Start with a confidential call.