Former Avison Young directors join Edwards & Co as joint shareholders
Manchester property consultancy, Edwards & Co, has revealed two new shareholders in Dan Crossley and Oliver Rowe, as part of a major restructure at the business.
Founded in 1992, Edwards & Co is well established as one of the region’s key office agency practices, as well as providing investment, lease consultancy, valuation and building surveying services.
Crossley and Rowe join from Avison Young where they were principal and director, respectively, in the North West Capital Markets team.
In 2004 Crossley was a founding partner in WHR with Rowe joining in 2010, before the company was acquired by Avison Young in 2017.
Together they have more than 35 years’ experience of working within capital/investment markets in the North West markets.
Edwards & Co director, Andrew Timms, said: “It is an exciting time for Edwards and Co as we welcome Dan and Oliver as shareholders and marks a new chapter in our 30 year history.
“Since I joined nearly 19 years ago, we have always prided ourselves on providing our clients with experienced, director-led advice and Dan and Ollie clearly share the same values as the rest of the team. The re-structure also sees Ed Keany and Richard Dinsdale becoming shareholders after both being with the business for almost 17 years.
“Nigel Hunter and Alun Jones remain involved as consultants to the business.”
Oliver Rowe said: “Edwards & Co has an unrivalled reputation within the market as dependable, forward-thinking and refreshingly honest advisors and it is this approach that very much resonates with the ethos that Dan and I have always shared.
“By joining forces with such a well respected firm, we were confident that this would provide us all with the right platform to grow an existing brand and create something very special going forwards.”
Dan Crossley said: “Oliver and I have worked together for almost 14 years on some of the region’s most high profile deals working with an eclectic mix of investment clients from indigenous high net worth investors and property developers through to international funds and overseas investors.
“Our advice has always put the client first, providing them with informed, strategic advice coupled with unrivalled occupational knowledge. The new structure will enable us to lay the solid foundations for the shared vision of creating an even greater independent multi-disciplinary property consultancy with an ambition for future expansion.”
Edwards and Co, based on King Street, currently has 14 fee earners within office agency, investment, valuation, lease consultancy and building consultancy teams.
