Property Finance Forum

Steering Group

The steering group for the PFF comprises the following people who you can contact directly using the details set out below:

Julius Gottlieb, Lend Lease Retail & Communities
Julius is the finance director for Lend lease and is responsible for developing and implementing Lend Lease’s strategic business plans. Julius is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Faculty of Finance & Management. Prior to joining Lend Lease in June 2008, Julius worked as the financial director at Morley since 2001 and has held a number of senior finance positions in the property industry as finance director at Berkeley Homes and group controller at LET Plc, Annington and Regalian Plc

Julius can be contacted at: julius.gottlieb@lendlease.co.uk 

Andy Banks, Legal & General
Andy is an FCA and after taking on a new challenge to broaden his experience at New Star Asset Management, Andy is now back in the property team of Legal & General where he had worked as finance director for 7 years prior to joining New Star.

Andy can be contacted at andrew.banks@lgim.co.uk

Andrew Wilson, Land Securities
Andrew Wilson joined Land Securities Plc, as Business Development Director, in June 2006 and is responsible for the Group's corporate and property investment activities. For the four years prior to joining Land Securities he held the position of Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Executive at Global Switch, the international data centre property group. Prior to Global Switch, Andrew held the position of Corporate Development Manager for Chelsfield plc where he worked principally on property acquisitions and partnerships.

Andrew can be contacted at andrew.wilson@landsecurities.com  

Robert Parkinson, Goodman
Robert Parkinson is a Chartered Accountant specialising in corporate and joint venture structures and taxation. Robert has specialised in the area of tax and corporate structuring for property for the last thirteen years, either whilst at Price Waterhouse, National Westminster Bank plc, Hammerson plc and now at Goodman.

Robert can be contacted at: robert.parkinson@goodman.com

Rochelle Trup, JC Rathbone Associates Limited

Rochelle is responsible for expanding J.C. Rathbone's business both nationally and in Europe. Prior to joining J.C. Rathbone Rochelle was Managing Director of Saxon Investments a property investment and development company. She spent 14 years in the City as an investment banker, headed up BZW's UK and European sales teams covering treasury management products including foreign exchange, money markets and derivative products. Prior to this she spent eight years at Bankers Trust in derivative sales and trading roles.

Rochelle can be contacted at: rtrup@jcra.co.uk

Jill Parker, Property Finance Team, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Jill is an assistant in the property finance team at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP and has experience acting for many leading UK and overseas institutional lenders on a whole range of projects from straight forward acquisition finance to structured development finance, from construction projects to ground rent portfolio finance. Jill also acts for national and international companies, institutions and limited partnerships investing a variety of products ranging from shopping centres to residential development projects. 

Jill can be contacted at: jill.parker@blplaw.com 

Andrew McLean, Banking, Nabarro
Andrew is a partner in the Banking and Finance Department of Nabarro and has represented lenders, listed property companies and sponsors in property, project and structured finance transactions. He also advises on bilateral and syndicated credit facilities on behalf of banks and corporate clients of Nabarro. 

Andrew can be contacted at: a.mclean@nabarro.com
 

Peter Beckett, Ernst & Young
Peter Beckett is a tax director in Ernst & Young's real estate team. He joined the team recently from KPMG where he spent eight years working with corporate clients on international tax issues and more recently with real estate investors and developers on real estate transactions. Prior to that he worked at the Inland Revenue. Peter has extensive experience of advising on structuring UK and European property funds, financing transactions and capital gains tax mitigation strategies.

Peter can be contacted at: pbeckett@uk.ey.com
 

Antonia Coltman, Head of Property Fund Administration - Jersey, Mourant International Finance Administration
Antonia is an English qualified solicitor and practised at Lovells in London as a real estate lawyer from 1996 before joining Mourant in September 2005. She heads the European real estate business at Mourant and is responsible for the strategic direction of this area of the Mourant business. Antonia also sits as a director on the board of a number of real estate structures.

Antonia can be contacted at: antonia.coltman@mourant.com