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Allegiance Insure is an independently owned specialist insurance broker that advises financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of their insurance cover needs. It has designed a comprehensive crime insurance policy specifically to protect the interests of short term lenders against losses arising from fraudulent transactions. | Charles Wintour Tel: 020 3544 4888 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.allegianceuk.com Allegiance Insure Limited 34 Lime Street London EC3M 7AT |
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Also Communications provides unrivalled specialist content, PR and communications for businesses with an interest in the UK mortgage and secured lending markets. The business was established in January 2018 by Alex Hammond, who has nearly two decades of experience working as a journalist, PR and running marketing departments in the sector. | Alex Hammond 07855 303 448 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.alsocomms.com Also Communications 17 Parsonage Croft Etchingham East Sussex TN19 7BY |
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Avison Young has a national ASTL valuation team that provides commercial advice quickly. They specialise in residential development appraisals and commercial investments. For default loans our LPA Receivership team is the largest in the UK. Contact us for an informal view on any situation or sector including part built. |
Nathan Pask MRICS
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AWH - an established surveying practice specialising in the valuation of residential, commercial and a wide range of specialist property classes. Working alongside short term lenders is an important part of our business - our key values of communication and expertise ensure a quality service and sound lending advice. | Jamie Chamberlain 020 7061 1100 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.awh.co.uk Anderson Wilde & Harris 12 Dorrington Street London EC1N 7TB |
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BridgeShield provides lenders a range of services from pre-loan property risk assessment, including development and in-life monitoring, through to Asset Management and LPA Receivership services for problematic loans. With significant experience and a hands-on approach, we invest the time upfront to understand the unique factors of each case, tailoring recommendations in order to maximise your debt recovery outcomes. |
Nick McAuliffe BridgeShield Limited |
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BrightOffice offer Alternative Lenders and Commercial Brokers sector specific Cloud CRM with our Broker-Lender software. Features include Sales Process and Marketing, Introducer Management, Fact Find audit trail, flexible payment structures, and systematic statement creation to Customers, Referrer Network, and Investors. With 8 years of Cloud CRM development in our locker, the wrap-around relationship management is incredibly strong. | Michael Fairhurst 07903 839508 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.brightoffice.co.uk 0845 643 4012 BrightOffice Ltd Unit 1B Maple Court Maple View White Moss Business Park Skeimersdale Lancashire WN8 9TW |
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Brightstone Law is a niche law practice providing specialist services for the bridging and short term lending industry. Our dedicated team of experienced lawyers offer one to one advice. We deal with aspects of loan origination and securitisation, and conduct all types of recovery actions, including mortgage possession, insolvency, and surveyor and solicitor professional negligence claims. |
Jonathan Newman |
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CBRE is a global commercial real estate services firm with 19 offices offering a full service across the UK. CBRE’s Loan Recovery team specialise in advising Lenders on their options for dealing with stressed or distressed assets. Where required, our team of LPA Receivers have extensive experience of realising assets across all property sectors often in challenging situations. |
James Graham |
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“Property receivership” - When enforcement action is required we can act as Receivers. Prior to taking an appointment as LPA Receivers we will agree a strategy with the charge holder to ensure that once we are appointed we can deliver maximum realisations. We work closely with specialist lawyers, asset managers and valuation agents to ensure that we achieve the best possible outcome. |
Edward Gee |
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David Rubin & Partners was formed in 1984. With 6 Partners and 70 staff, in 3 offices, we specialise in business turnaround and rescue, corporate and personal insolvency. Our particular area of expertise is in respect of recovery for secured and unsecured lenders; fast appointments as Receivers or Administrators and advising lenders generally. | Paul Cooper 020 7400 7917 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.drpartners.com David Rubin & Partners Ltd 26-28 Bedford Row London WC1R 4HE |
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Duff & Phelps is the global advisor that protects, restores and maximizes value for clients in the areas of valuation, corporate finance, investigations, disputes, cyber security, compliance and regulatory matters, and other governance-related issues. We work with clients across diverse sectors, mitigating risk to assets, operations and people. With Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps since 2018, our firm has nearly 3,500 professionals in 28 countries around the world. | Tom Parker 020 7089 4700 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.duffandphelps.co.uk Duff & Phelps The Shard 32 London Bridge Street London SE1 9SG |
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Pragmatic and partner-led, at Gateley Legal we look after our clients' businesses as if they were our own. We offer straight-talking legal advice, spanning documentation, regulatory compliance (for example FCA, data protection and AML), and loan originations, as well as restructuring, dispute resolution and recoveries. We are able to handle both contentious and non-contentious work within one specialist single team. We act for many different types of banks and specialist lenders providing traditional property backed lending as well as bridging and development finance, both regulated and unregulated. | Rob Payne Tel: 0113 218 2476 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. gateleylegal.com Gateley Legal 1 Paternoster Square London EC4M 7DX |
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We have been providing insolvency, litigation and forensic services for over 40 years, operating in Europe, Asia, the UAE, the Americas and the Caribbean. We pride ourselves on the trust we have garnered as much as the many successes achieved for a broad spectrum of clients. As well as assisting companies and individuals navigate financial difficulties, we regularly act for government and commercial clients where our specialist knowledge and skills are effectively deployed and have been instrumental in developing intervention strategies with a number of government bodies. We also work closely with the insolvency, recovery and restructuring industry’s regulators to advise on Insolvency Practitioner Conduct |
Frank Turnbull 020 7554 9600 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.griffins.net Griffins Entrance D Tavistock House South Tavistock Square London WC1H 9LG |
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Howard Kennedy regularly represents a broad range of banks, finance companies and specialist short term and bridging lenders in connection with the origination and recovery of secured facilities. The firm's secured finance specialists enjoy a widely recognised reputation for their in depth appreciation of the need to responsibly promote and implement the requirements of the lender whilst retaining the confidence of the borrower and dealing efficiently and cost effectively with the underlying commercial issues and challenges that can rise. |
Daniel Fireman |
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Jackson Cohen are an award winning compliance consultancy that specialises in working with Lenders in all aspects of compliance and lending regulation with a particularly strong connection with the Short Term Lending industry. As well as support on whether loans are regulated or not, we can also provide policies, advice and training in areas such as AML/Financial Crime and DPA. |
Ray Cohen |
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JPC is an award-winning full-service law firm. Our mission is to work together across disciplines, achieving successful outcomes in an ever-evolving market through skilfully applied legal intelligence. We are proud to have a diverse team, who actively engage with our core values to make the law work for our clients and stakeholders. JPC are also members of the League of Lawyers and the International Association of Practising Lawyers |
Steven Porter
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Property Professionals who act as LPA Receivers. We are a firm of Chartered Surveyors who provide recovery/valuation services, property auctions, asset management and project and building consultancy services. We have qualified Receivers who take appointments over a variety of properties, across the country. Due to our in-house expertise, we can provide pre-appointment advice and deal with cases from commencement to completion, whilst working alongside other professionals (solicitors, insurers, contractors etc.) that we have build relationships with over the years, in order to achieve the best outcome. |
Michael Fitzpatrick |
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Lawrence Stephens Real Estate Finance team has more than two decades of experience, acting for both lenders and borrowers. Our clients include a large number of banks and other financial Institutions together with regulated and unregulated mezzanine lenders and bridging companies based in the UK and overseas where we supply them with the necessary security documentation on an ongoing basis. Our skillset covers commercial property, portfolio of Buy-to-Let, healthcare, hotels and leisure, private client and LMA work. The size of the loans that we habitually deal with are in the £250,000 to £30 million range. We are committed to delivering solutions that meet our client’s needs. |
David Freedman |
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Lightfoots LLP provide an award winning legal service for individuals, businesses and lenders. We offer a full range of services for lenders including asset management, bridging finance, mortgage registration, professional negligence, repossession sales, secured arrears recovery, unsecured arrears recovery, shortfall recovery and consumer credit. Our dedicated lending team will support you through every stage of your borrower’s purchase or remortgage. | Joe Middleton 01844 212305 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.lightfoots.co.uk Lightfoots Solicitors 1-3 High Street Thame Oxfordshire OX9 2BX |
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Founded in 1978, Memery Crystal is a well-established, independent London-based law firm. Our full service offering covers corporate, financial regulation, banking & finance, real estate, tax, commercial, IP & technology, employment and dispute resolution law. Our intelligent and tailored approach makes us a more attractive proposition than the ‘one size fits all’ service offered by many other law firms. For more information, please visit: www.memerycrystal.com |
Daniel Tunkel 020 7242 5905 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.memerycrystal.com Memery Crystal LLP 165 Fleet Street London EC4A 2DY |
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Method is a panel manager of choice for many short-term and bridging lenders. Method understands modern valuation panel management is not just process management but requires a spectrum of quality advice from qualified, seasoned and experienced property professionals to help mitigate lender risk. We provide valuation, surveying and specialist report services for clients, understanding that there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to lender requirements. | Niall Deas 0844 811 2132 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.method-vm.co.uk Method Valuation (UK) Ltd Unit 4, Staithes The Watermark Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE11 9SN |
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Moore Barlow has major strengths in corporate and commercial; property; dispute resolution and private client services. The company has a specialist team of lawyers serving the lending industry who provide clients with an end to end solution including origination legal support, title rectification, repossession litigation, sales, shortfall debt recovery and professional negligence work. |
Rob Evans |
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NCI is the leading provider of field services to banks and other financial institutions in the UK. |
Graeme Lambert
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Nivo helps bridging lenders and their intermediaries to offer a market-leading, paperless experience. The FinTech network, built for specialist lending, streamlines the loan journey and makes it easy for lenders, brokers, and solicitors to pass data directly from the customer. The secure technology can be white-labeled or integrated into existing apps, and hosts a range of advanced features such as messaging, biometric identity verification, e-signing, open banking, message automation, business-to-business messaging, identity passporting, and filesharing. |
Polly Taylor-Pullen Nivo |
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We are a specialist practice with experience dealing with Lender clients. We aim to provide a high quality streamlined legal service to our lender clients and we have a proven track record in delivering a quick turnaround. We are extremely pro-active in our dealings not only with the solicitors acting for the borrowers but also in dealing with brokers, valuers and other intermediaries. |
Richard Buchalter |
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SW is a multidisciplinary firm of Chartered Surveyors with national geographical coverage via 10 strategic locations with 9 LPA Receivers (Fellow Members of NARA & RICS Registered Property Receivers) with over 250 years of combined experience. The SW team has 50 years plus continuous property insolvency experience across all sectors including Commercial, Industrial, Residential, Agricultural, Development, Trading Concerns & Chattels. Acting for secured lenders & IP’s - expertise includes Fixed Charge / LPA, Repossession, Sale as Mortgagee, Assisted Sale & Strategic Review. Robust, cost-effective, practical & diplomatic solution. | Daniel Hardy Tel: 0800 122 3050 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.sw.co.uk Sanderson Weatherall LLP 6th Floor, Central Square 29 Wellington Street Leeds LS1 4DL |
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Savills is a global real estate services provider, and with 92 offices in the UK. The Recoveries and Receivership Team provides a comprehensive advisory service to lenders and other professionals on distressed assets and non-performing loans. We have experience in all property sectors including, residential, commercial, leisure and rural property. |
Stuart Jones |
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Seddons real estate finance team have considerable experience and depth of knowledge relating to all bridging and short term lending arrangements, often adding creative solutions to complete transactions which otherwise would not happen. We work alongside a broad spectrum of merchant, clearing banks and specialist property lenders throughout the UK. Our team of experts understand the fundamental objectives of short term lending, security and the need to act with speed and efficiency. We work closely with our clients to ensure their aims and objectives are met in the most efficient and appropriate manner. We pride ourselves on our reputation of delivering results for our clients. |
Adam Miller |
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Smith & Williamson LLP provides services to the real estate and construction sector, with specific expertise and experience in:
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Henry Shinners |
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For over 23 years Synectics Solutions have been providing a range of leading edge data driven services for organisations in the UK, and internationally, to help them harness the power of data. The systems we build and host for our clients are highly successful in creating more profitable customer relationships, reducing risk, combating financial crime, and enabling organisations to meet their compliance and regulatory commitments. |
Jennifer Ely |
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Toorak Capital Partners is an integrated correspondent lending platform that funds small balance business purpose residential, multi-unit and mixed-use loans throughout the U.S. and the U.K. Headquartered in the U.S., Toorak Capital Partners acquires loans directly from private lenders that originate high credit quality loans. | Tim Marsh 020 3743 6116 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. www.toorakcapital.com Toorak Capital Partners 3 London Bridge News Building Regus Suite 320 London SE1 9SG |
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"Small and perfectly formed” ULS Property Law specialises in all aspects of commercial property and lending work. We provide support to short term and longer term lenders, offering services such as loan origination, property litigation and repossession / recovery work. Our team of highly experienced city lawyers provide fast pragmatic advice without the city price tag. |
Daniella Lipszyc |
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VAS is a group of aligned businesses supporting lenders, valuers and brokers to reduce property specific risks through valuation excellence. VAS Audit’s goal is simple: we protect our clients by using our experience and expertise to review property valuations for accuracy, quality and compliance. Our role is about providing confidence. This is done through: live valuation auditing, retrospective valuation auditing, loan book monitoring, desktop appraisals and reviewing valuation instruction letters. With recent changes in the market, we provide the sort of clarity that is need by all lenders. VAS Panel is the UK’s most comprehensive valuation panel management service with over 200 valuers which cover every type of valuation. This ensures the fastest, most cost-effective and accurate valuations in the market. |
Daniel Owen-Parr Stephenson House 1St Floor High Force Road Riverside Park Middlesbrough TS2 1RH |
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Westcor International is a 100% owned subsidiary of Westcor Land Title Insurance Company (WLTIC), headquartered in Maitland, Florida. WLTIC is the 5th largest title insurer in the US with premium income exceeding $584.5 million. Following their acquisition of Titlesolv during 2020, Westcor International has become a leading provider of title insurance and legal indemnity solutions for the real estate sector in the UK & Ireland. The underwriting team has in excess of 60 years of specialist underwriting experience and they have delivered some of the most innovative solutions that respond to the plethora of conundrums faced by the sector on a daily basis. Westcor International’s Perfect Title policy continues to evolve in response to the needs of lending institutions across the board and their funders and with its 6-month “cure or pay” promise it remains the ‘go to’ solution for the industry. Westcor International Limited is registered in England & Wales and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. |
Christopher Taylor Corporate Development Director |
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Wilkins Kennedy provides realistic and innovative solutions to lenders when borrowers find themselves in financial difficulty. We have particular expertise in acting as fixed charge receivers or administrators or effecting a turnaround when a borrower has defaulted to deliver maximum value to the lender. |
Stephen Grant |
