Stonehage S.A. agreed to acquire Fleming Family & Partners Ltd. from Standard Chartered PLC (LSE:STAN), RF Trustee Co. Ltd, Fleming Family and others in stock on November 6, 2014. Fleming Family's shareholders will exchange their shares for a holding in the combined business through a scheme of arrangement. The firm will be majority owned by management and staff. The combined firm will operate as Stonehage Fleming Family and Partners. The transaction is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. The transaction has been approved by boards of Stonehage and Fleming Family.

Spencer House Partners acted as financial advisor for the transaction. Sandy Greaves-Campbell of CTC Communications acted as PR advisor for the transaction. PwC Corporate Finance acted as financial advisor for Fleming Family and Cloudberry Corporate acted as financial advisor for Stonehage. Slaughter and May acted as legal advisor to Standard Chartered and RF Trustee Co. Ltd. Howard Corney of Macfarlanes acted as legal advisor for Fleming Family. Rupert Weber of McDermott Will & Emery acted as legal advisor to Stonehage. spencer house partners acted as financial advisors in the transaction.

Stonehage S.A. completed the acquisition of Fleming Family & Partners Ltd. from Standard Chartered PLC (LSE:STAN), RF Trustee Co. Ltd, Fleming Family and others in January 2015. Stonehage Fleming Family & Partners has rebranded as Stonehage Fleming.