Their day-to-day involvement ensures clients benefit directly from their experience and focus.
Partners
Our Partners are fully involved in all our engagements, bringing strategic insight, judgment, and deep sector expertise to each client assignment.

Andrew
Simkin
- Founded Argent Partners in 2002, and has been involved day to day in all the Firm’s significant transactions
- Prior to Argent Partners, Andrew was at Morgan Grenfell / Deutsche Bank for 12 years from 1989. He specialised in metals & mining from 1995, becoming European Head of Metals & Mining in 1998
- Qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC)
- BSc Hons in Chemical Engineering

Robert
Butler
- Joined Argent Partners in 2008, and has been involved in all the Firm’s significant transactions since that date
- Lead Partner on all the Firm’s cash flow modelling work
- Prior to Argent Partners, Robert worked in Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services, within the Valuations & Business Modelling team
- Qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte
- MA and MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge

