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Top 25 Business brokerage firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 231 business brokerage firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 1,334 professional contacts across them, including 429 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers business brokerage firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest business brokerage firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Altius Group, we’ve been helping businesses buy, grow and sell for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a UK specialist company, working with business owners looking to buy or sell a business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hilton Smythe is a strategic advisory and finance firm, supporting owner‑managed SMEs and entrepreneurs through the most important decisions of their business journey, whether…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Capital and Trust is a leading business intermediary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We sell businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avondale is a leading business advisor that helps ambitious owners buy and sell companies, set up employee ownership trusts, secure investment, grow and create shareholder value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entrepreneurs Hub helps business owners to achieve their goals and realise the value of their life's work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Convex is the UK’s leading sell-side only M&A advisor, with unrivalled expertise in advising entrepreneurs, founders, and owner managers on maximising their equity value through…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kingsbrook was founded in 2015 by the Rebbettes family, the award-winning entrepreneurs behind M&A advisor BCMS, a former Coutts Family Business Of The Year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Number 1 Business Broker with over 60 Years of expertise in selling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The GS Verde Group are business-focused experts in getting deals done Law - Finance - Tax - Communications We support business owners with mergers & acquisitions, raising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Business Monkey and New Broad Street offer a comprehensive service designed to sell, not just list, your business.* We always visit sites for a face to face meeting and assessment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With regional offices throughout the UK, Business Partnership is a unique national network connecting business sellers with business buyers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Watersheds is a specialist firm of corporate finance advisers which helps clients to buy and sell private companies and raise money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Selling your business shouldn’t be a stress.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dyer Baade & Company (DBC) is an independent M&A boutique based in St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trusted experts in helping business owners achieve their goals and aspirations, CMC Business Advisers is at the forefront of small and medium size business growth and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Redwoods Dowling Kerr, part of the Altius Group, is the UK’s leading business broker for the Childcare & Education and Healthcare & Homecare sectors, completing sales on a weekly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EvolutionCBS provides business services to shareholders and business owners that optimise business value, creating a highly saleable asset that will realise a premium exit price.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hornblower specializes in business sales and acquisitions for the Engineering, Technology and B2B services, and Facilities Management sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DEALMAKR emerged from a collective of entrepreneurs boasting more than five decades of experience in SME, middle market, and private equity ventures across diverse sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ernest Wilson offers over businesses for sale in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Cheshire and Cumbria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Starling Corporate Limited offer a sell-side brokerage service that ensures confidentiality at all stages, providing business owners with the best possible solution to exit a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Help Business Owners Sell and Acquire Great Companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As experienced advisers, business owners and entrepreneurs ourselves, we get it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: business brokerage firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names business brokerage firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of business brokerage firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name business brokerage firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Business brokerage firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 231 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among business brokerage firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “business brokerage firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names business brokerage firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among business brokerage firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 429 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Business brokerage firms by metro
- Business brokerage firms in London64
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names business brokerage firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many business brokerage firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 231 business brokerage firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Altius Group, headquartered in Preston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most business brokerage firms?
London leads with 64 headquartered companies, followed by Leeds (9) and Birmingham (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 429 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 231 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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