Partners

Our Partners are fully involved in all our engagements, bringing strategic insight, judgment, and deep sector expertise to each client assignment.

Their day-to-day involvement ensures clients benefit directly from their experience and focus.

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