The Butler Group

Merrill Private Wealth Management
555 California St
Floor 18
San Francisco CA 94104
(415) 955.3773
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At the Butler Group, we appreciate the value of your time. We enable you to regain more of that precious commodity, knowing your finances are directed by a capable, high performing team.
The Butler Group
Recognition
The Butler Group
Forbes "Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams", 2025
(Published on January 9, 2025. Rankings based on data as of March 31, 2024.)
Our Approach
Philosophy

The clients who engage our team tend to have sophisticated needs that span multiple touchpoints of their wealth. These relationships, we find, allow us to add the most value. We work with a limited number of clients, offering the intensive guidance and one-on-one sensibility that allow us to lead demanding initiatives from beginning to end.

Client needs are top of mind – not just during quarterly or annual meetings but infusing our day-to-day processes and routines. We strive to be the preeminent wealth manager to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families—a goal that requires the best of our mindpower, energy, and spirit, day in and day out. We welcome high standards on behalf of the clients we serve. We hold those same standards ourselves.

We have extensive experience work with an accomplished clientele:

  • Private equity principals look to our team for assistance with their fund operations, including banking, capital markets, and credit services, as well as private wealth management.
  • Business owners look to us for guidance in structuring and optimizing their business, often in preparation for a liquidity event.
  • Family offices look to us to advance a unified approach to investing, next-generation stewardship and wealth transfer, philanthropy, and customized credit.Whatever the source of a client's wealth, we offer a degree of customization and attention that we believe is unique. Undaunted by complexity, we strive to make each client's financial life more efficient, advancing measurable progress toward meaningful priorities, not only for the clients we serve, but for the people and causes that add richness to their lives.

***Banking products are provided by Bank of America, N.A. and affiliated banks, Members FDIC and wholly owned subsidiaries of Bank of America Corporation.

Meet Our Team
William Butler
Managing Director, Private Wealth Advisor
415.955.3773
Scott Edmonds
Senior Vice President, Private Wealth Manager
615.750.1054
David Lim,

AAMS™

Vice President, Private Wealth Senior Relationship Manager
415.955.3922
Ka H Ngai
Assistant Vice President, Private Wealth Investment Management Specialist
415.955.3956
Kena Rose Tababa
Private Wealth Client Associate
415.955.3995
About Private Wealth

We meet complexity head on
Growing and navigating wealth isn't a straight line. There are complexities and opportunities at every turn. That's why your Merrill team serves as mission control for your wealth, offering the highest level of execution and world-class intellectual capital to help keep you moving forward through every pivotal moment. Find out what it's like to work with us.

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Accredited Asset Management Specialist™, AAMS™, and the AAMS™ logo are certification marks or registered certification marks of The College for Financial Planning Institutes Corp. in the United States.