Year-Round Award • Current Year: 2025

Leading Adviser Awards

In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving environment, expert guidance is more important than ever. At Acquisition International, we understand that even the most accomplished individuals, leadership teams and organisations, no matter how established, profitable, or well-known, rely on external expertise to navigate challenges, capitalise on opportunities and remain competitive in a fast-changing world.

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About The Award

Championing Excellence in Professional Guidance

In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving environment, expert guidance is more important than ever.

At Acquisition International, we understand that even the most accomplished individuals, leadership teams and organisations, no matter how established, profitable, or well-known, rely on external expertise to navigate challenges, capitalise on opportunities and remain competitive in a fast-changing world.

That’s why the 2025 Leading Adviser Awards exists: to recognise and celebrate the professionals whose insight, commitment, and impact make them indispensable.

Who We Recognise

Now in its 12^th year, this prestigious annual programme honours those across all key industries and disciplines. Whilst placing a particular focus on legal professionals, we are proud to highlight individuals and firms across areas such as:

Legal practice (commercial, litigation, IP, tax, real estate, employment & more)
Financial advisory & wealth management
Business consultancy & strategy
Tax & compliance
Technology, data protection & cybersecurity
HR, recruitment & workplace services
Marketing, branding & communications

Shining a Light on True Leaders in Their Field

Aiming to highlight only one leading individual or firm per specialism, per region, and serve as the ultimate guide for those seeking trusted experts, each winner is selected through an extensive research and evaluation process, conducted by our in-house team.

No voting. No external nominations. Just a rigorous, merit-driven approach. We leave no stone unturned to ensure only the most deserving professionals are recognised”.

Admission into this campaign is solely at the discretion of our team, if you think you have what it takes, please email the coordinator and we'll review your request.

AWARD COORDINATOR

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Meet Jo Holloway

Jo joined the AI Global Media team in 2016 and has since been involved in numerous projects for AI Global Media Ltd. She is both creative and dedicated in her role as account executive. Jo works hard to ensure a great customer journey for her clients and is passionate about delivering maximum value for each recipient.

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In today's multi-channel world of precise online engagement, being able to target and engage your ideal demographic is very powerful. Acquisition International can help you to successfully connect with our readers and web visitors through our selection of products and services which you can view in our brochure.

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Our Approach

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The Acquisition International research team ardently monitor industry developments over a 12 month period to identify those most deserving of inclusion and recognition within the annual Leading Adviser Awards. We do not rely on external votes or self-nominations, the only way into the process is to pass the rigorous standards set out by our in-house team. Our in-house team use specialist industry news sources, officially published M&A data, professional associations and directories, press releases, and client recommendations and testimonials alongside a range of publicly available sources, to drive candidate selection.

The selected candidates then move on to a more formal stage whereby they are benchmarked against their peers through an internal process of research, analysis, shortlisting, and selection. Throughout this process, factors the team take into consideration include, but are not limited to: sector expertise, experience and qualifications, wider industry recognition, innovation, reputation, performance, and leadership.

Once our chosen individuals have been determined, each will be contacted directly with the good news by our Program Coordinator, Jo Holloway.

As these awards aim to recognise the best in the industry, not those with the largest marketing budgets, there are no mandatory costs associated with accepting your recognition. All those selected are entitled to a free of charge entry to our directory listing (which you are also welcome to enhance and optimise for free) and we encourage our winners to spread the word of their inclusion through their company website, social media channels, press releases etc so that they can make the most out of their success.

In addition to this, those who successfully pass through the process are given the opportunity to feature within our monthly publication, as well as be included in our dedicated Leading Adviser supplement, which will be released at the end of the year. Inclusion in these publications is not complimentary, but we offer a range of packages to suit various budgets and marketing requirements.

Awards come in all shapes and sizes, but here at AI we’ve adopted this approach to focus on merit over popularity. We love having this opportunity to recognise the individuals and firms in the consultancy and advisory space, whom we think are truly deserving.

From boutiques and SMEs through to multinational corporations, we aim to showcase those that are succeeding in their field and who are constantly innovating, growing and improving. As in preceding years, this year’s Leading Adviser Awards will act as THE guide to consultants and advisers globally, and give our readers the resource they need to choose the most talented individuals and firms from their sector.

How long has Acquisition International been in circulation for?

Acquisition International was launched in 2010 as the flagship B2B publication produced by AI Global Media. Each month our CPD-approved magazine is circulated to in-excess of 85,000 professionals, including top-tier managers, investment professionals, business advisers and service providers.

As well as the monthly magazine, we also have a dedicated website as well as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook pages, all delivering up-to-the-minute news to our engaged viewers. We seek to inform, entertain, influence, and shape the global corporate conversation. We aim to achieve this through a combination of high quality editorial, rigorous research and an experienced worldwide network of dedicated advisers, experts and contributors.

Who makes the final decision?

We do. To maintain consistency and minimise bias, we employ our researchers on a fulltime basis. We have a team of 8 individuals, led by a veteran academic with international education and training experience, who is well versed in research, fact-checking and mediation. Our team have amassed huge specialist knowledge having undertaken this work since 2010 and the approach has brought us much success and commendation throughout its use.

Is there a winner’s ceremony/award dinner and if so, when does it take place?

We do not focus our efforts on a celebratory event, despite being an enjoyable occasion, it doesn’t support our group’s philosophy of cost-effective marketing. As well as the lack of cost efficiency, AI is a company who runs awards worldwide and we believe it would be logistically difficult for some of our winners to attend an awards ceremony. We follow the belief that any of the optional costs involved with the award would be more beneficial in a year’s worth of online marketing for a winner, rather than spending it all on a ceremonial evening. All of our press announcements are made digitally, online and across our network to enforce our position as digital publishers. We aim to arm you with the tools (both digital and physical) to generate real-world value.

Are there any costs involved?

As previously mentioned there are no compulsory costs involved, however we do offer a variety of paid additional benefits for our winners, but these are completely optional. To demonstrate our commitment to no mandatory fees, all our winners are offered a free of charge promotional package. Our company policy will always remain: regardless of budget, our clients should always be able to garner the full value of the award and our seal of approval. We offer a variety of promotional opportunities to our winners. as we have an extensive network and we know, more than anyone, the wider business benefits from promoting industry awards.

Winners Hall Of Fame

Welcome to our Winners Hall of Fame, a special space dedicated to honouring and showcasing the individuals, teams, and organisations that have achieved unparalleled success in the corporate world.

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