Somers Limited is a London based corporate and institutional stockbroking group in which Somers Limited has a 75% interest. Merrion Capital is an independent Irish financial services firm in which Somers Limited has a 21.8% equity interest. Merrion has a number of revenue streams including Private Clients, Retail Asset Management, Fixed Income, Corporate Finance and Merrion Investment Management (“MIM”). The two main business lines are MIM (institutional asset management) and Private Clients/Stockbroking. West Hamilton Holdings Limited is a Bermuda Stock Exchange listed property investment and management company with property assets in Bermuda and in which Somers has a 57.1% equity interest. Other
Dave Somers from 1979 to 1997. Somers was elected to the Snohomish County Council from district 5 in 1997, defeating incumbent Democrat R.C. "Swede" Johnson in the primary election and facing a Republican write-in candidate in the general election. Somers was elected on a platform of making real estate developers accountable for strains on infrastructure created by new housing in the county, including roads and schools. Somers was defeated in 2001 by Republican Jeff Sax, whose campaign called Somers a "committed socialist" before retracting the statement. Sax favored local control of land use, opposing the state's Growth Management Act and federal policies.