Synergy Capital Solutions, a Bloomfield Hills, Mich., RIA with $1 billion in assets under management, has joined Hightower Signature Wealth, the W-2 RIA brand of Hightower Advisors, according to WealthManagement.com. InvestmentNews also covered the addition in an RIA moves roundup.
Synergy brings 15 employees to the platform, seven of them advisors, WealthManagement.com reported. Beyond its Michigan headquarters, the firm has offices in Naples, Fla., and Lebanon, Pa. Mark Burns, who co-founded the firm, is its CEO and chief investment officer, per the same outlet.
InvestmentNews reported that Synergy had been a Hightower partner since 2017, so the move shifts an existing relationship into the firm's employee-model channel. A report from Pulse 2 put the closing date at Sept. 30, 2026.
WealthManagement.com described the deal as the fourth external acquisition for Hightower Signature Wealth. The outlet said Hightower announced last January that five partner firms had joined the channel, a count that does not include Dallas-based affiliate Frontier Investment Management, which seeded the brand in October 2025.
With Synergy, the channel's total assets reach roughly $40 billion across more than 160 advisors and 35 locations nationwide, according to WealthManagement.com. Its headline put the figure as over $40 billion. By comparison, InvestmentNews earlier reported the brand at more than $20.8 billion across more than 100 advisors in 19 locations.
FA Magazine reported that Hightower as a whole manages more than $350 billion in assets, which places the Signature Wealth channel as a fraction of the larger platform. The sources do not disclose terms of the Synergy transaction.
The InvestmentNews roundup placed the Synergy addition alongside two other billion-dollar RIA deals, from Merit Financial Advisors and Trilogy Capital. Those transactions are separate from the Hightower news.