If you’re thinking of selling your business, you want to avoid any unexpected pitfalls. Daniel Wood of wealth manager 7IM explains in our January edition of UK Private Company Director why a meticulously planned and crafted exit strategy should live alongside any other high-priority strategies you might have for your business ..read more

Jim Keeling explains why there are positive signs for stronger activity in buying and selling UK companies in 2024 in the January edition of UK Private Company Director ..read more

We’re delighted to welcome Sharon Cahill as our new Director of Marketing. With over 25 years in marketing, advertising, and professional services, Sharon specialises in B2B marketing and has extensive experience working with founder-led businesses. Sharon embodies our broader thinking and higher values, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have her on board ..read more

Jim Keeling, our Chairman and CEO, was delighted to discuss with Spear’s magazine why he believes 2024 could be a record year for mergers and acquisitions in the private market. With his firm’s niche in advising owners of privately owned companies with a value of £10 - 150 million, Jim explained that this market has been relatively unscathed by the slowdown in the larger mergers and acquisitions market as buyers of smaller companies are not so reliant on debt financing and are less perturbed by high interest rates and lingering uncertainty. He and his team are seeing plenty of buyer ..read more

We were delighted to celebrate Corbett Keeling’s 30th anniversary with over 50 fellow business owners and entrepreneurs in the beautiful surrounds of the Petersham Restaurant in Covent Garden ..read more

Jim Keeling, our Chairman and CEO, very much enjoyed catching up with Corbett Keeling’s international Globalscope colleagues at our bi-annual conference which, this Autumn, was held in Madrid. As ever, there were plenty of opportunities to discuss Merger and Acquisition opportunities in each of the six sectors we cover as well as learn from each other’s experiences. Some 100 advisers and their partners gathered for the event ..read more

Corbett Keeling has been proud to support Home for Good, a charity dedicated to finding a home for every child who needs one, by providing office space for their team since 2020. As the Home for Good team move into new premises they will share with like minded charities, we wish them the very best and will continue to support them on the ground ..read more

While the M&A market stats might, on the surface, be thought gloomy, they don’t actually reflect our experience on the ground. Indeed, we found ourselves rather surprised by the data – we talk daily to owners of private companies where business is thriving. In this edition of UK Private Company Director, we look at the latest private M&A data and confirm that potential sellers of sound businesses continue to get deals done at good prices ..read more

We are delighted to welcome Nick Peel to the Corbett Keeling team as a Corporate Finance Analyst ..read more

We caught up with John and Karen Raquet to find out about their experience of selling their business gasworld and what it was like for them to use Corbett Keeling as their advisor. Watch the video below ..read more