K3 completes a straight eight as UK’s No.1-ranked adviser

For the eighth consecutive year, K3 Capital Group, the holding company of KBS Corporate, has been named as the UK’s No.1-ranked corporate mid-market sales adviser.

The statistics produced every quarter by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) show that in 2024, K3 advised on 358 transactions – a rise of 26 from the previous year.

In the UK, 11 of the top 13 advisers in the LSEG list increased their number of deals year-on-year, illustrating the growing strength of the market overall.

However, none of those companies registered a greater increase than K3, whose total of 358 remarkably is almost three times more than any competitor – indicating just how far we remain ahead, having been No.1 in the UK corporate mid-market standings ever since 2017.

In addition, we have retained the No.2 position for the whole of Europe, and risen from seventh to fifth in the global ranking, where the gap has also narrowed to those ahead.

Among the deals on which KBS Corporate advised during 2024 were substantial private equity investment into Black & White Engineering and Wirral Roofcare, and the sales of engineering consultancy EcoGenR8 and water pumping specialist PDAS Group.

K3 Capital Group continues to go from strength to strength, with more than 1,000 team members in total following the acquisitions of HMA Tax and Pinnacle – the latter having marked the launch of a new Technology Solutions division – and more new companies in the pipeline set to further enhance the company’s service offering.