Harris Williams operates as a subsidiary of PNC Financial Services.

The company operates additional offices in San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Washington DC., London, and Frankfurt.

[2] Harris Williams was founded by Christopher Williams and Hiter Harris, who previously worked together at Charlotte investment banking boutique Bowles Hollowell Conner & Co., a firm later bought by Wachovia.

Harris and Williams had previously been classmates at Harvard Business School, from which they graduated in 1987.

[3][4] The firm has built its business focused heavily on providing advisory services for leveraged buyout transactions and other private equity investments.