While Corbett Keeling is proud to be celebrating 25 years, the Keeling family has, in fact, been advising company owners and directors on buying and selling businesses and raising funds for nearly a century. Back in 1923,  John Henry Keeling, the grandfather of our own CEO and founder, Jim Keeling, set up London and Yorkshire Trust, one of the original Accepting Houses and Merchant Banks. Michael Keeling, Jim’s father carried on the family tradition, devoting his energy and skill to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses through mergers and acquisitions. Jim wanted to advise clients in the same way he had seen his forebears doing. Having witnessed some of the changes in the City brought about by Big Bang in the 1980s,  in 1993, he decided to set up Corbett Keeling with a vision to re-establish corporate finance with integrity. Our founding ethos continues to drive the way we advise clients 25 years on.

Over the past 25 years Corbett Keeling has built up a deep knowledge of the trade, financial and international buyer and seller landscape, so our clients can enjoy peace of mind that their adviser can access every possible buyer for their business.  Over the years, we have guided clients through the ups and downs of economic cycles and over every possible transaction hurdle, equipping us to deliver maximum value for each and every client. We have continued to place our client first and go the extra mile. Indeed, by prioritising value over volume, at Corbett Keeling we complete over 90% of transactions, building trust and relationship with each client we have had the pleasure to work with.

"I am really excited to be celebrating 25 years at Corbett Keeling and would like to say a big "Thank you" to all our clients, sector specialists and international corporate finance partners which have made it such a fun, interesting and fruitful quarter of a century!"
Jim Keeling, Chairman of Corbett Keeling.

Over the coming months we will keep you updated with our upcoming celebrations at Corbett Keeling. We very much look forward to many more years of “Broader thinking. Higher values”. As our company motto suggests, we will be thinking outside of the box to provide bespoke and personal financial advice, and we will ourselves be operating by unshakeable values to ensure we achieve higher values for each and every client.