Peel Hunt Limited
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Peel Hunt Limited Company Profile

Peel Hunt is one of the UK's top mid- and small-cap brokers. The company offers a variety of services, including corporate finance and insurance advising, as well as traditional brokerage activities. Peel Hunt's clients include more than 400 small to mid-sized firms in the UK and abroad. Marketing more than 2,000 stocks, the company's among the top specialist firms in London; it has affiliates in Brussels, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Charles Peel and Christopher Holdsworth-Hunt founded the namesake firm in 1989. Belgium-based KBC Group acquired Peel Hunt in 2001, but sold it to its management and other investors in 2010; KBC needed to raise cash after a series of government bailouts.