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Private Wealth Management

Our mission is to help provide integrated solutions to all aspects of your wealth management—delivered with the highest level of service and integrity. We know, one size doesn’t fit all, and our team incorporates our ideas into a custom portfolio tailored to your specific priorities and objectives. We pride ourselves in helping our clients navigate and streamline the complexities that substantial wealth brings. 

Our goal is to help you make your dreams possible, everywhere, everyday.

 

Learn more about our team's capabilities

Defining your priorities. Pursuing what matters.

Our experience and structured planning process drives a comprehensive financial plan and customized investment strategies. Depending on where you are in your life and the priorities that matter most, our planning conversations may focus on liquidity management, your cash flow needs, asset replacement solutions such as insurance, estate planning strategies, or tax and legal structures such as trusts and philanthropic vehicles.

Guiding founders and business owners

Guiding founders and business owners

Advice for business owners

Advice for business owners

Advising corporate executives

Advising corporate executives

Delivering opportunity through collaboration

UBS Private Wealth Management
Specialized centers of excellence provide you and your family with the expertise that is most relevant to your wealth and goals. Their insights focus on broad themes and trends as well as successful tactical ideas and strategies.

Delivering opportunity through collaboration

Wealth planning across generations

Wealth Planning

Wealth planning across generations

Your family’s enduring legacy

family legacy

Your family’s enduring legacy

Wealth Planning

Our team has experience helping families create a plan to pass on both their wealth and their values to their children with the goal of sustaining wealth over generations.

Understanding the family dynamics that can accompany multigenerational wealth, we are experienced in working with you and your family to develop a strategic plan to guide your decisions.

Our approach helps foster family communication and provide education across generations to help define and support your long-term vision.

family legacy

With an understanding of the family dynamics that can accompany multigenerational wealth, we are experienced in working with you and your family to develop a strategic plan to guide your decisions.

Our approach helps foster family communication and provide education across generations to help define and pursue your generational wealth objectives.

Pursuing your goals together

Our mission is to provide quality strategies customized to your needs. Our goal is to be your primary source of financial advice. To this end, we concentrate our efforts on developing long-term relationships through a commitment to quality client service.

Private Wealth Advisors

  • Mike

    Mike Lappin, CIMA, CPWA

    Managing Director–Wealth Management

    Private Wealth Advisor

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    Mike’s commitment to personal service and portfolio management has garnered national recognition. With 28 years of experience, Mike has found success by being thoughtful and clear with everything he does, but most importantly, he has distinguished himself by having a fierce work-ethic for his clients. His tenacity, formed from years of playing professional hockey, has translated into profound confidence in leading his team and his clients through all aspects of the market cycles. Making a point never to fall to the extremes, he offers a pragmatic approach to wealth management.

    Before coming to UBS, Mike served as a Wealth Management Advisor for Merrill Lynch. He conducted professional training programs on a national level at Merrill Lynch for new and veteran Financial Advisors. Mike traveled throughout Merrill Lynch speaking on Business Management, Team Development and Wealth Management for the affluent.

    Mike has three kids and lives in Morrisville, NC with his wife, Allison. His passion is off-shore fishing.

    “Our business starts and ends with taking care of our clients. Everything matters to us…everything. We listen, pay attention to details and are accountable for ourselves, our team, and most importantly, our clients.”

    • Barron's Top 1,200 Financial Advisors, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
      The Barron's rating is awarded annually in March and is based on information from the prior year Q3. 
    • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in April based on information from a 12 month period ending June of the prior year.

    Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

    • St. Lawrence University
    • Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
    • Private Wealth Advisor
    • Certified Investment Management Analyst®
    3700 Glenwood Avenue
    Suite 300
    Raleigh, NC 27612

Strategic Partners

  • Tim Lappin

    Tim Lappin, CEPA®

    Financial Advisor

    Certified Exit Planning Advisor

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    Tim previously worked for Brown Gibbons Lang, a private middle market investment bank located in Chicago. He was an analyst in their generalist investment banking program which is transactional in nature. Tim’s ultimate passion was to combine his financial and emotional intelligence to provide wealth management services for business owners and their families in a multi generational context. Tim brings to the team new perspectives and insightful guidance for catering to business owners.

    Tim graduated with honors from Brown University was awarded the ECAC Hockey All Academic during each of his four years at Brown. During his senior year he was the ECAC nominee for Men's Ice Hockey Player of the Year. His discipline and consistency contributed to his successes both on and off the ice.

    Tim lives in Knightdale, NC with his wife, Alexis and his dog, Coco. He is an avid golfer and continues to play hockey on a men’s league team.

    "Substantial wealth, and especially self-made wealth, is different. It deserves highly focused and insightful care.”

      Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

      • Brown University
      • The University of Chicago
      • Certified Exit Planning Advisor
      3700 Glenwood Avenue
      Suite 300
      Raleigh, NC 27612
    • Dan Geiger

      Dan Geiger, CFP®

      Wealth Strategy Associate

      CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™

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      Since being at UBS, Dan has held numerous roles within the firm, allowing him to learn the wealth management business from the ground up. Prior to joining the Eubanks/Lappin Group, he began his career at the UBS Wealth Advice Center in Charlotte, NC. During this time, Dan quickly excelled from leading operational and compliance initiatives as a Client Service Associate to becoming one of the top Financial Advisors on the platform. Dan has broad experience in retirement planning, portfolio construction, tax optimization, and estate planning.

      Dan partners with business owners and first-generation wealth creators by applying a disciplined approach to goal-driven wealth planning and through developing long term, meaningful relationships. He is a zealous advocate for entrepreneurs in the local business community.

      A native of North Carolina, Dan was born and raised in Cary, attended Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh and graduated with honors from the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. Dan resides in Apex with his wife, Rebecca and his dog, Charlie. He enjoys spending time with his family, supporting NC State athletics, and fishing at Smith Mountain Lake

        Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

          • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™
          3700 Glenwood Avenue
          Suite 300
          Raleigh, NC 27612
        • Jon

          Jon Stephenson, CIMA®

          Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

          Certified Investment Management Consultant

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          Jon joined The Eubanks/Lappin Group in 2006. He spent six years with the team at Merrill Lynch and transitioned to UBS with the team in 2012.Through the years he has developed a love for analytics and trading, and he brings these strengths to The Eubanks/Lappin group. Jon handles the team’s trading, client performance reporting, asset allocation analysis, fund and manager research and designs and administers 10b5-1 plans.

          Jon graduated with honors in 2004 from Wofford College with a B.A., in business economics. While at Wofford he was also a three-year captain of the men’s golf team and a two-time Academic All-America and All-Conference selection.

          He lives in Smithfield, NC with his wife, Elyse and their four children. Jon and his family love everything that Smithfield has to offer, and they spend most of their free time on their farm exploring, gardening, and fishing. He also likes to keep his golf game in shape and play the guitar.

            Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

            • Wofford College
            • Certified Investment Management Consultant
            3700 Glenwood Avenue
            Suite 300
            Raleigh, NC 27612
          • Janice

            Janice Sanderson

            Team Administrator

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            Janice has been with The Eubanks/Lappin Group since its inception in 1995 and has been a staple in our team’s success story. In an increasingly impersonal world, exacerbated by the 2020 pandemic, high-quality client service is often a secondary concern, but for Janice , it is her primary focus.

            She is highly specialized in client care as she boasts a wonderful career of 33 years. Before the group transitioned to UBS Financial Services Inc., she worked with Steve and Mike at Merrill Lynch, where she started her career dedicated to taking care of clients.

             Janice’s day-to-day responsibilities include account administration, business operations and client services. She has a genuine interest in our clients’ daily lives. Janice strives to give our clients an experience unlike anywhere else using her intelligence, humility, sense of humor and caring nature. Her loyalty to the group is appreciated by the entire team and Janice will continue to be an important driver to the future successes of the group.

             

            Janice lives in Apex, NC with her husband, Reed, and her two cats, Tabby and Cali. She enjoys cooking, sewing and crafts.

              Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

              • Florida International University
                3700 Glenwood Avenue
                Suite 300
                Raleigh, NC 27612
              • Elizabeth

                Elizabeth Alexander

                Client Associate

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                Elizabeth joined The Eubanks/Lappin Group in 2016. She came to the team with seven years of industry experience, previously working at Credit Suisse, a bulge bracket investment bank, as an operations analyst. Elizabeth learned the financial and technical skills required to provide clients with quick and efficient cash management solutions.

                Elizabeth graduated with honors in 2007 from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She received a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a concentration in finance.

                She handles client service needs in a comprehensive manner and is fully dedicated to client satisfaction. In such a rapidly changing technological landscape, Elizabeth is integral in providing seamless experiences for our clients. From online services, wire transfers and all personal banking matters, Elizabeth is keen on keeping the clients happy.

                She currently resides in Apex, NC with her husband, Mark and their two children. Elizabeth loves spending her free time traveling and taking her kids to national parks.

                  Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

                  • East Carolina University
                    3700 Glenwood Avenue
                    Suite 300
                    Raleigh, NC 27612

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