Fast-growing Financial Planning and wealth management group Loyal North has completed the acquisition of New Malden, Surrey-based Whitman Fry Wealth Management Ltd for an undisclosed amount.

Frenkel Topping, the specialist advice firm focusing on personal injury and clinical negligence cases, has acquired Chester-based cost consultants North West Law Services Limited (NWL) for £2.75m and revealed that profits for 2023 climbed by almost a third.

Quintet Private Bank, the Luxembourg owner of UK Financial Planner and wealth manager Brown Shipley, has partnered with asset manager BlackRock to launch an actively managed US equity fund.