needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message brown shipley & co. type subsidiary industry financial services founded 1810 founder alexander brown headquarters london england united kingdom products investment management wealth management pensions parent kbl european private bankers website www.brownshipley.com brown shipley & co limited doing business as brown shipley is a london based subsidiary of kbl european private bankers sa . it offers investment management pensions and associated advisory services for private institutional and corporate clients . history edit in 1800 irish merchant alexander brown founder of alex brown & sons went into business in baltimore maryland importing irish linen and exporting cotton and tobacco back to britain . in 1810 his eldest son william brought the family business to liverpool under the name william brown & co. in 1812 william returned to baltimore to introduce his new wife and baby to his family and to report on trading and political conditions in liverpool and europe . 1 in 1825 william formed a partnership with joseph shipley . the new trading firm financed merchants who were shipping goods between britain the united states and other parts of europe and the americas . over the years the trading activities ceased and the merchant banking activities grew based in london . 2 in 1918 the partnership between brown shipley and its american partners brown bros. & co. ended although each continued to act as agents for the other for some time . in 1946 brown shipley became a limited company . some historical records of brown shipley & co. are included in the brown brothers harriman collection housed in the manuscript collections at new york historical society . references edit the house that trust built by dr michael mccarthy the house that trust built by dr michael mccarthy external links edit official website v t e investment banks bank divisions of universal banks bulge bracket bank of america merrill lynch barclays citi institutional clients group credit suisse deutsche bank corporate and investment bank j.p. morgan & co. j.p. morgan cazenove ubs investment bank other berenberg bank bmo capital markets boc international bnp paribas corporate & institutional banking brown shipley cibc world markets citic securities clsa commerzbank corporates & markets cr dit agricole corporate and investment bank daiwa securities capital markets everbank world markets harris williams & co. hsbc global banking and markets ing commercial banking is investment kbc bank korea development bank daewoo securities lloyds bank corporate markets mitsubishi ufj securities mizuho corporate bank natixis nomura securities rbc capital markets rbs markets & international banking sberbank cib soci t g n rale corporate & investment bank standard chartered td securities unicredit corporate & investment banking vtb capital wells fargo securities independents bulge bracket goldman sachs morgan stanley other allen & company blackstone group brewin dolphin btg pactual centerview partners china international capital corporation close brothers group evercore partners everbright fbr capital markets galaxy greenhill & co. haitong securities houlihan lokey investec jefferies keefe bruyette & woods lazard macquarie group mediobanca moelis & company n m rothschild & sons oppenheimer & co. perella weinberg partners piper jaffray raymond james financial renaissance capital roth capital partners salam investment ltd. sandler o neill and partners stifel nicolaus stone key partners william blair & company category list this united kingdom bank or insurance related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title brown shipley % 26 co. & oldid 681854200 categories banks of the united kingdomprivate banksunited kingdom financial services company stubseuropean bank stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from july 2010all articles needing additional referencesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 september 2015 at 23 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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