Small Cap Awards 2026: Broker Of The Year

Inaugurated in 2013, the Small Cap Awards is an annual event celebrating and rewarding the finest in the sub-£350m market cap quoted company sector.

The Awards celebrates those professionals and companies that work within the AIM and Aquis communities and is attended by listed companies, institutions, fund managers, brokers and advisors.

The 2026 Awards will be held on Thursday 11th June 2026 at Merchant Taylors Hall in London.

The nominees for Broker of the Year are as follows:

Allenby Capital

Allenby Capital is an employee-owned AIM Nominated Adviser and Broker, Main List Sponsor and AQUIS Exchange Corporate Adviser. Since our formation in 2009, we have grown into one of the most active advisers in the London small cap market. We currently advise c.65 listed clients and over the last five years have completed 9 IPOs, Completed 8 acquisitions, 6 reverse takeovers, and 79 secondary fundraisings. As employee-owners ourselves, we understand the challenges, decisions, and trade-offs our clients face every day. That shared perspective means our advice is grounded in real-world experience, not just theory.

Oberon Capital

Oberon Capital is an institutional stockbroking firm, offering advisory fundraising and investor relations services to smaller listed companies, as part of the Aquis listed Oberon Investments Group.  We are a small team of highly experienced bankers, with a collective experience of almost 100 years and hundreds of corporate transactions.

2025 was a transformational year for the team, having helped 19 listed companies to raise money from a wide variety of institutional investors, across multiple sectors, including healthcare, technology and natural resources.  Crucial to our success was an understanding of how to communicate the merits of our clients’ unique businesses to a generalist audience and against a backdrop of intense competition for capital, and a commitment to proactive and creative financial advice.  We also appreciate the growing importance of Retail Investors as an investment population and their specific requirements and demands on management teams.  The key to our success is a commitment to taking the time to get to know our clients and to understand their specific merits and ambitions, together with the associated capital requirements.  We continue to be passionate advocates for smaller companies on the London listed markets and of the importance of specialist advisers catering to those companies’ requirements.

For more information, visit Oberon Investments Group PLC’s website

Oberon Capital forms part of Oberon Investments Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the FCA

Singer Capital Markets

Singer Capital Markets is a leading UK investment bank dedicated to supporting ambitious small and mid-cap companies. Driven by a culture of care, trust, and results, Singer provides a fully integrated suite of services spanning corporate advisory, equity capital markets, M&A, and liquidity — helping fast-growing UK businesses achieve their ambitions at every stage of their journey.

Cavendish plc

Cavendish is a full-service investment bank specialising in equity capital markets, M&A advisory, debt advisory and private growth capital. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham, and global reach through membership of Oaklins – one of the leading global mid-market M&A network spanning 60 offices across 40 countries – it serves ambitious public and private companies across the full business lifecycle, from early-stage fundraising through to IPO, strategic transactions and exit.

The firm operates across a number of specialist sectors including: Technology, Healthcare, Consumer, Industrials and Business Services, Financial Services, and Energy, Power and Natural Resources – ranking as the #1 adviser to public companies in Technology, Life Sciences, and Industrials and Business Services, and currently supporting 168 public market clients.

2025 was a year of significant delivery: 10 M&A transactions and six ECM fundraises in Technology; three UK M&A transactions and 30-plus global transactions in Life Sciences; nine M&A transactions and two IPOs in Industrials and Business Services; £499m-plus in cumulative deal value in Energy, Power and Natural Resources; and 5 M&A transactions across public and private markets in Financial Services .

Three factors underpin this performance. The first is the quality of its public markets platform. Despite a challenging issuance environment, Cavendish’s capital markets teams added 27 new clients during FY26. In investment companies, the firm led the market in secondary issuance in Q1 2026, achieving a 31% market share and raising £96m across six companies.

The second is sustained investment in specialist research. The hire of a financials research team ranked first and second in the 2025 Extel Survey, alongside research investment across energy and resources, reflects a deliberate philosophy: sector expertise strengthens client relationships and underpins better execution outcomes.

The third is integrated capability. Cavendish is neither a pure advisory boutique nor a capital markets house – combining public markets expertise with private M&A, debt structuring, growth capital and sector research means it can advise the same company through multiple stages and transaction types. A business that raises growth capital with Cavendish can move seamlessly to an IPO, a follow-on fundraise, or a strategic acquisition, with the same team and sector knowledge throughout. That breadth of capability, built across decades of UK mid-market advisory, means clients have more options and better-informed counsel at every stage.

Cavendish remains at the forefront of the reform agenda, with our Chair, Lisa Gordon, sitting on CMIT to champion the interests of growth companies and enhance the environment and competitiveness of UK capital markets. Our NED Programme brings together senior independent directors and growth company leaders to discuss the issues shaping UK business.

Significant progress has been made in strengthening Cavendish’s distribution platform, both in terms of product and reach. Cavendish supported the first transaction on the London Stock Exchange’s Private Securities Market, and recently invested in expanding UK regional distribution.

For our clients, this breadth of engagement is what distinguishes Cavendish: a firm that is present not just at the deal, but across the moments that determine how growth companies develop.