For nearly nine decades, William Blair’s success has been driven by our ability to thoughtfully evolve to meet our clients’ changing needs amid dynamic market conditions.
About Us
William Blair is the premier global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management. We provide advisory services, strategies, and solutions to meet our clients’ evolving needs. As an independent and employee-owned firm, together with our strategic partners, we operate in more than 20 offices worldwide.**Includes strategic partnerships with Allier Capital, BDA Partners, and Poalim Capital Markets.
Global Capabilities: Defining Our Capabilities by Our Impact
Read how William Blair continues to innovate in order to serve client needs across investment banking and advisory, asset management, equity research, sales and trading, and wealth planning.
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Global Partnership
William Blair has a unique independent global partnership with a long-tenured employee base. This special structure gives our various businesses the freedom to grow while aligning across our culture and vision to be the premier global boutique.
Global Advisory and Capital Market Expertise
William Blair's Investment Banking group has completed more than 1,440 advisory and financing transactions over the past five years, unlocking over $770 billion in value for our clients as of June 30, 2024.
Drawing on the collective intellectual capital and deep sector expertise of a global team that spans four continents, we bring a rigorous and innovative approach to mergers and acquisitions, corporate board advisory projects, equity and debt financing, and wealth planning for liquidity events.
Award-Winning Equities Platform
Our Institutional Sales, Trading, and Research teams received 15 No. 1 rankings in the 2023 Coalition Greenwich annual Voice of the Client study of North American Equity Investors across equity sales, corporate access, and research. This includes our first ever top ranking in lead firm relationships for research/advisory, solidifying its position as a leading player among U.S. equity small- and mid-cap funds.
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Global Asset Management
Our Investment Management teams are solely focused on active management, with over 100 investment professionals committed to alpha generation, and seasoned sales and relationship management professionals servicing a wide range of intermediary and institutional clients. Our managers employ disciplined, analytical research processes across a wide range of strategies, including U.S. equity, non-U.S. equity, and emerging markets debt.
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Distinctive Wealth Management
Private Wealth Management continues to grow its client base nationally. Serving high-net-worth individuals, families, business owners, foundations, and endowments, we offer innovative and creative strategies to help clients manage and grow their wealth.
Our Culture
Inclusion and Diversity
At William Blair, we believe great talent can come from anywhere and that diversity of skills, capabilities, perspectives, and experiences drives innovation and success.
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Awards and Recognition
William Blair is consistently rated as one of the best places to work in the financial services industry.
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History
We provide expertise and solutions to meet our clients’ evolving needs while remaining guided by our founder’s vision and values.
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Our Mission, Vision, and Values
At William Blair, we're committed to our colleagues, our clients, and our communities. Serving our clients starts with the capabilities and collaboration of our team—making our employees our most important asset. When we create an environment where employees perform their best, our delivery for clients will be the best it can be.
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Community Engagement
Celebrating Over a Decade of Empowering Youth: The Anne Frank Art Competition
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
In 2024, the Anne Frank Art Competition celebrated its 11th anniversary, marking another milestone for an event that continuously inspires and empowers youth through artistic expression.
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William Blair Celebrates Pride Month 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
From donation drives to care package assembly parties, fundraising to enjoying LGBTQ+-owned treats, William Blair celebrated Pride Month across offices this June with activities led by the Pride Alliance.
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Inspiring Inclusion: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
William Blair’s Women’s Alliance hosted several incredible events throughout Women’s History Month, each embracing this year’s International Women’s Day’s theme: “Inspire Inclusion.”
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Leadership
Consistency and continuity in leadership is a hallmark of our firm. Since the firm’s founding in 1935, William Blair & Company has had six CEOs or managing partners, three of whom continue to work at the firm.
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