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Miracle Mile Advisors Announces Combination with Karp Capital Management and Simultaneous Investment by Corsair Capital

Miracle Mile Advisors Announces Combination with Karp Capital
Miracle Mile Advisors and Karp Capital Management announced today that they intend to combine, creating an award-winning, national wealth advisory firm with over $4 billion in assets under management serving clients from five main offices. In conjunction with the transaction, the combined company will receive a significant investment from Corsair Capital, a leading private equity firm in the financial and business services industries. The combination and subsequent Corsair investment is expected to be completed in November 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.

Karp Capital is a wealth management firm based in the San Francisco Bay area, with over $1.2 billion in client assets. Peter Karp founded Karp Capital in 2004 as an independent alternative to larger brokerage firms, providing sophisticated financial planning, investment advice, and retirement services to high-net-worth individuals and business owners with a specific expertise in the automotive sector.

“Miracle Mile and Karp Capital coming together is a unique partnership. We share a strong cultural alignment and dedication to providing clients with highly customized, fiduciary advice. Our focus on providing wealth management services to the automotive, RV, and powersports spaces complement Miracle Mile’s broad foundation in advanced financial planning and wealth advisory services,”

- Peter Karp

Miracle Mile is a national, award-winning wealth advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Chicago and Portland. Founded in 2007, Miracle Mile provides clients with highly-customized financial advice across all aspects of their balance sheet. Miracle Mile is consistently ranked as one of the Top 50 Fastest Growing RIAs nationally, one of the Best Places to Work for financial advisors, and has multiple Forbes and Barron’s top-ranked advisors.

We are fortunate to have developed an amazing culture and growth track record that has attracted some of the best and brightest advisory teams in the industry, and the addition of Karp Capital is a perfect example. As we scale the combined firm and enhance the service offering to our clients, we have found an incredible partner in Corsair. Their deep industry expertise and network will be instrumental in our future success, With our combined capabilities, we believe we can offer a differentiated partnership, culture, and set of resources to other wealth management firms looking to grow and thrive, said Duncan Rolph, Managing Partner.

Corsair expects to leverage its deep fintech and wealth management expertise to support Miracle Mile, as it accelerates the growth trajectory, enhances the client experience, and builds on its history of successful acquisitions and partnerships. Corsair’s investment in Miracle Mile expands on its successful track record of investing in the asset and wealth management sector.

We have been looking at the wealth advisory space for several years, trying to find the right platform company we found it in Miracle Mile. Their unwavering commitment to clients, incredible management team, market-leading growth, and award-winning culture makes the newly combined firm a perfect fit, said Gunnar Overstrom, a partner at Corsair. Tony Ling, a managing director at Corsair, added Miracle Mile is uniquely positioned as an ideal partner for high-growth advisors and their clientele.

The Asset & Wealth Management Investment Banking team of Raymond James served as financial advisor to Miracle Mile and Karp Capital on the combination and recapitalization, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP served as legal counsel to Miracle Mile and Venable LLP served as legal counsel to Karp Capital. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP served as legal counsel and Ardea Partners LP and Waller Helms Advisors served as financial advisor to Corsair Capital.

About Miracle Mile Advisors
Miracle Mile Advisors is a registered investment advisor committed to providing dynamic financial planning and custom investment management to high-net-worth individuals, families, business owners and institutions. Miracle Mile’s advisors integrate clients’ ambitions with best-in-class guidance, advice, and technology, and have been recognized across leading industry awards such as Barron’s, Financial Times, Forbes, Inc., and InvestmentNews.

About Karp Capital Management
Karp Capital Management is a registered investment advisor serving as a trusted partner for highly successful individuals, businesses, and families. Karp Capital simplifies the complexity in the financial lives of their clients and integrates clients’ entire wealth picture with their long-term aspirations so that they are confident about achieving what is important to them.

About Corsair
Corsair is a global specialist investment firm offering opportunities for investors and solutions for companies across financial & business services and infrastructure. The firm has almost three decades of experience partnering with businesses at the crossroads of technology transformation and financial services complexity and established its complementary infrastructure investment practice in 2015. Corsair has invested $12 billion in capital across its global buyouts and infrastructure platforms since inception.

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