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London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

As a real estate investor, developer and agent I have secured investment opportunities in the UK, Europe and the America's over 25 years, specialising in residential property investment and with experience in dealing with developers, banks, constructors, agents, investors, lawyers, surveyors and just about every counterparty you deal with in real estate I have successfully acquired land, secured planning permission, constructed, financed and sold hundreds of apartments across 12 countries in my career

London, United Kingdom

Since 2011 I have developed innovative techniques in motion picture finance. These methods have included credit enhancement, gap financing, international co-productions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, equity funding and debt financing. I have used industry-focused affiliates strengthen projects positions through extensive contacts in the media, entertainment and finance industry's.I have enabled private clients to access lucrative film investment markets at various levels, from independent films to Hollywood blockbusters. From private individuals to independent and mainstream film production, companies are seeking finance for their projects. These funding opportunities can offer significant returns on capital for connected investors. I have chosen companies, teams and projects for a multitude of valid reasons and by criteria, Be it because of their creativity, innovation, uniqueness, commercial viability or because they just tell a great classic story in a new and novel way.Accessing the returns that the film industry offers means being able to select only the very best of projects. To that extent I have undertaken research at the very highest level and due diligence to an extremely high level, thereby delivering value to clients and partners.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Mercury Partners was founded by myself with 3 High Net Worth investors based in South Africa and Botswana to take advantage of private equity opportunities in the region in 2009 that were primarily commodity focused. In 2011 we accepted an offer and sold the business to its current owners.

Quinta Do Lago, Portugal

Real Estate Company2008 – 2011I relocated them to Portugal to focus on Creative Acquisitions/Short Sales with illiquid Portuguese banks and developers. We opened up an office in Portugal and built up a database of over €150.000.000 worth of distressed developer and bank owned real estate.Deals/Projects -> Completed Townhouse, Condo and Villa sales - all at 60% of market value to the market value of €40.000.00 (€40m)> Acquired local companies with tax concessions and established new model to wholesale units with a 10% margin taking companies year 1 T/O from 1m to 14m in year 2> Built online software management system for the business and sold this to partner> Established and built a sales force to deal with both investor enquiries and vendor/bank enquiries looking to exit their distressed positions> Provided financial solutions to several mainstream Portuguese Banks including Banif/BPI/BES/MBCP and Others> Acquired land and developed 3 x 1.5m villa's for own Portfolio in Portugal> Acquired land and developed 60 apartments in Santa Luzia, Algarve Portugal

Algarve, Portugal

Acting in a consultancy capacity to this large real estate group I successfully sold raised over 40 Million Euros to acquire 50 luxury properties from Oceanico Group for my clients based in the UK, Switzerland and the US.

Doncaster, United Kingdom

Whilst at Lazarus group I was responsible for selling residential development property for the group. During that period I successfully set up marketing strategies and completed the sale of over 300 apartments through sales networks and direct sales.Total sales exceeded 50,000,000 GBP.

Recife Area, Brazil

Promotion and implementation of marketing the 1 Billion Euro portfolio of assets that Qualta had in Brazil at the time. My role involved managing business flow between the group and Europe

London, United Kingdom

International Real Estate Company2005-2007I joined Big Real Estate (BRE) to provide services to a new high net worth client the firm had acquired. The client was (at the time worth £100m) and BRE became the exclusive marketing partner for their portfolio. We opened a new London office a built a sales team to deliver value to the partnership with the HNW client.Deal/Projects - UK Real Estate Sales> 265 Residential properties were sold by the team I built at top of market value prices across 4 developments for Urbani and Lazarus Group to residential investors (around £40m in sales) generating over 2m in income for BRE, the new company. I also participated as one of the partners in this residential development company that built and sold the 265 apartments.Deals/Projects - International Real Estate Sales> Budapest, Hungary - Sold 98 residential units in Hungary at a luxury Yacht club for CIB bank (around £12m in sales), generating over 1.2m in income for new company> Recife, Brazil - Consulted on successful acquisition of €10m costal land parcel acquired for clients. Land with planning deal was arranged with local government and once developed, the sales value of the resort exceed USD 1 Billion

London, United Kingdom

Sales SpecialistGravitas Real Estate Finance and Financial Consulting Firm2004-2005Gained invaluable experience working closely with architects of a corporate SPV investment scheme with a targeted £300m value. Incorporated syndicate of 300 £1m companies co-owned by clients and Gravitas. Arranged funding with national lender for the entities and arranged flip of business to private company who bought the rights. I was involved with an observed the following processes -Deal/Projects - Corporate, Tax & Legal Structuring> Developed shared equity scheme with clients on 300 LLC's where we co-owned the equity in SPVs> Arranged 80% non-recourse funding for each SPV> Corporate structuring the assets/interests of the entities across BVI, Seychelles, Isle of Man and other tax jurisdictions> Worked in conjunction with judges, lawyers and forensic accounting experts to draft dozens of agreements, contracts and tax structures to facilitate the various aspects of the scheme

Magala Area, Spain

Responsible for the sales and marketing plan to pre-sell over 200 properties across Southern Spain. I started as a Sales Executive and was promoted to a managerial position

London, United Kingdom

Real Estate Consutlantcy Firm 2002 – 2005I joined the company to assist with growing the pipeline of corporate short sales from UK national property developers where units were sold into client base of UK private investors. During this period I acted broker of real estate transactions to clients up and down the UK where secured and raised over £70,000,000 for investmentDeals/Projects - UK Acquisitions> Built relationships from cold calls into fruitful business arrangements with dozens of private and national developers {Bellway/Persimmon/Redrow/Linden to name a few) generating millions in revenueDeals/Projects - International ~ Real Estate Consultancy> 41 units acquired for clients in the Cape Verde Islands from an Italian developer> Opened AN office in Spain and sold 40 units in Southern Spain during 2 years following offering the same portfolio building service. Hired staff, built a local sales team and acquired and renovated an office building.> Consulted upon the land acquisition and development of 40 units in Ko-Samui in Thailand.

Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Spain

Sales Manager - Island Village Group of Companies 1996 - 2000Role - Started as sales agent and was promoted to sales manager responsible for team of brokers selling residential real estate in the Canary Islands, learnt the hard sell and developed an aggressive desire to close deals early on in my career, a characteristic I have maintained as the ethos of all my companies and their employee's.Starting as sales consultant on real estate sales I then worked my way up to sales manager. During this period I picked up invaluable sales skills, management skills and a commercial awareness that undoubtedly set me up for a successful career in business.

Film & Theatre

Whilst based in New York I studied Acting for film - Method Acting - to further enhance my knowledge of Film. During this study I gained.

Real Estate & Corporate Finance

During this period I attended and studied courses relating to - Raising and Structuring Property Finance Retailed Real Estate Commercial.