Dan Leaman

Moore Kingston Smith is a leading London-based advisory and accountancy firm whose corporate finance practice, in which Dan Leaman serves as a partner, has been named Corporate Finance Advisory Firm of the Year in England at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025. The award recognises the team's work supporting owner-managed and founder-led businesses through the most significant transactions in their corporate lifecycle.

The firm's corporate finance team specialises in advising businesses with valuations between around £5 million and £150 million, guiding shareholders and management through business sales, acquisitions, buy-outs, private equity investments and growth capital raisings. Its offering spans deal advisory, transaction services and debt advisory, allowing clients to draw on a single team for the strategic, financial and tax dimensions of a transaction. By integrating corporate finance advice with M&A tax expertise from across the wider firm, Moore Kingston Smith is able to structure deals in a way that protects value for founders and shareholders.

As a corporate finance partner, Dan Leaman works within this multidisciplinary team, which brings together dozens of finance professionals under the leadership of the firm's head of corporate finance. The practice has developed particular depth in a number of sectors, including media and technology, education, manufacturing and distribution, and facilities management, enabling its advisers to combine transactional experience with genuine market insight when positioning a business to buyers or investors.

Corporate finance advisory is, at its heart, about helping business owners realise or fund their ambitions at pivotal moments, whether that means selling a company built over many years, backing the next phase of growth, or restructuring a balance sheet to support expansion. It demands not only technical rigour in valuation, due diligence and deal structuring but also careful management of the personal and commercial stakes involved for founders and management teams. Moore Kingston Smith's transaction services capability, covering financial and tax due diligence, supports clients on both the buy and sell side of these processes.

Serving entrepreneurs, family businesses and management teams, the corporate finance team positions itself as a trusted adviser through the full arc of a deal, from early strategic planning to completion and beyond. Its emphasis on owner-managed businesses gives it a strong understanding of the priorities and pressures faced by those selling or growing companies they have built themselves. The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognition as Corporate Finance Advisory Firm of the Year in England reflects the standing of Moore Kingston Smith and partners such as Dan Leaman in the mid-market corporate finance community.