In present work, new form of generalized fifth-order nonlinear integrable equation has been investigated by locating movable critical points with aid of Painlevé analysis and it has been found that this equation passes Painlevé test for $$\alpha =\beta $$ α=β which implies affirmation toward the complete integrability. Lie symmetry analysis is implemented to obtain the infinitesimals of the group of transformations of underlying equation, which has been further pre-owned to furnish reduced ordinary differential equations. These are then used to establish new abundant exact group-invariant solutions involving various arbitrary constants in a uniform manner.