Lord Leigh

established Deloitte's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and developed an expertise in company sales. In May 1988, he left to set-up Cavendish Corporate Finance, now the UK's leading specialist advisor to owners of businesses seeking to sell all or part of their business - https://www.finncapcavendish.com/profiles/lord-leigh-of-hurley.

A frequent lecturer, author and broadcaster on mergers and acquisitions, he wrote the Good Practice Guideline: Selling a Business, published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, to consolidate and share his experience of M&A throughout my career.

From 2000-2004, he chaired the Faculty of Corporate Finance of the ICAEW, which represents some 5,000 corporate financiers. Lord Leigh also acted as an alternate to the President of the Institute, serving on the Takeover Panel. In 2008,he was awarded the Faculty’s Outstanding Achievement in Corporate Finance Award.

Later, he co-founded and was Vice President of M&A International Inc, now known as Oaklins, the world's leading independent and largest corporate finance network, covering some 47 firms in 41 countries; within which he continues to act as a Principal - https://www.oaklins.com/co/en/team/3916/. In 2021, I was appointed as Chairman of Manolete Partners PLC, an AIM listed public company.

Lord Leigh's political careers have run alongside his career in finance. In 2000, he was appointed as a Treasurer of the Conservative Party and, more recently, as Senior Treasurer. In addition to regularly speaking on matters relating to Business, Tax, Finance and Entrepreneurship, he serves on a number of committees in the House of Lords and is currently Chairman of the Finance Bill sub-committee of the influential Economic Affairs Committee. In 2013, Howard Leigh was elevated to the peerage as Lord Leigh of Hurley.