- Sole shareholder and director of Composition Advisory Limited, an independent property and structured capital advisory business start-up.

- Analysed distressed debt investment opportunities, working directly with the Chief Executive Officer.
- Prepared due diligence packages for co-investors and managed relationships with clients and funders.
- Structured and integrated reporting and information systems for a new client.

- Evaluated direct real estate and corporate acquisition opportunities in Europe including hotel portfolios, prime office and retail properties and healthcare businesses.
- Executed stage one bid for an Australian long-term care business including meetings with management team, discussions with financial advisors and lenders and preliminary due diligence.
- Prepared arguments and materials for negotiations with pension scheme trustees with respect to a proposed corporate takeover, in which the target was the scheme sponsor.

- Underwrote, structured, and closed loans secured on European single asset or portfolio real estate transactions for mortgage-backed securities, ranging from €15m to €1bn.
- Structured £600m acquisition and secured real estate financing in support of a bid for a quoted UK hotel group.
- Structured financing in support of the €1bn proposed bid for a portfolio of properties to be sold by and leased back to the State of Hessen.
- Structured propco/ opco financing proposals in support of acquisitions of operating businesses with significant real estate assets.
- Produced the team’s first induction day training course for new joiners and associates and supervised three to five associates with respect to transaction underwriting and execution.

- Structured and completed a €50m investment facility for the acquisition of an office property portfolio in Italy by a private real estate fund.
- Advised on the bridge and mezzanine debt financing for a public-to-private acquisition of a large quoted Swedish property investment company by a UK real estate opportunity fund and a Swedish private equity firm.
- Reviewed the structure of and executed a £80m propco bridge facility for the public-to-private of a national UK retailer.
- Structured and modelled the €70m acquisition and property finance for a private UK company acquiring the property portfolio of a quoted Swedish operator of supermarkets.

- Specialised in the real estate and private equity sectors, managed and executed transactions for public and private companies and generated deal ideas.
- Advised the management team on the public-to-private of a property investment company, modelled the financing structure and operating assumptions and prepared the offer document.
- Advised a consortium of banks on the leveraged buyout and debt restructuring of a quoted company in the energy sector and prepared financial model.
- Advised a private equity backed consumer credit company on the acquisition of a loan book.

- Managed the audits of the Investment Division of an international property investment company and a small quoted public property company.
- Reviewed the Directors’ valuations of a property client’s portfolio by examining rental value expectations and comparing those to industry expectations and compared client’s performance against industry benchmarks.
- Performed vendor due diligence on a manufacturer of heating appliances in Istanbul, Turkey. Analysed historical results and forecasts for profit and loss and cash flows.
- Performed financial due diligence for an acquisition in the retail sector. Assisted the Finance Director with forecast models for the purposes of the working capital report.

Performed and managed audits of various companies including a real estate investment trust, a quoted label printing and commercial design company and a mid-market gold mining company.