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The Team

Meet the team behind Finance 55
Mark Nixon

Mark Nixon

Managing Director

An experienced finance professional with a wide range of experience in all aspects of the credit function. Through swift promotion and development, has covered senior director roles within two of the UK’s leading Banks. 

Mark Started his career as a Graduate at Allied Irish Bank before moving to Barclays Corporate. In 2009, Mark set up the brokerage with a view of servicing the North East Real Estate Market, where the business has grown exponentially since in terms of deal size and geography.

Mark predominantly covers the North East, Manchester and London, where his specialism lies within the Real Estate & Healthcare sectors. Mark’s typical core focus relates to refinance, acquisition and development funding within these sectors.

Mark's typical deal size is a minimum of £5M up to £250M. Most recently, Mark has facilitated a large development facility of £113M  for the development of a prime zone 1 PBSA unit in London.

 

Fiona Smith

Fiona Smith

Senior Corporate Debt Adviser

Fiona has amassed over 30 years experience in the finance industry gained initially from Director roles in Commercial and Corporate Banking within NatWest Group and more recently as Senior Corporate Debt Adviser with Finance 55 Ltd.

She led the NatWest Newcastle Real Estate Team for 10 years driving the business to a loan book which exceeded £0.5bn. During this time period there has been significantly changeable credit appetites and challenges within the sector which gave Fiona the ‘know how’ to structure and sanction deals through the whole spectrum of market conditions. The portfolio comprised an impressive list of Regional and National operators who she supported throughout a challenging period in both the bank’s and industry history.

She took her Real Estate expertise and knowledge to Finance 55 where the free to market status opened up the full range of options available from the ever increasing list of funders.

The specialism in deal size of £2M-£100M gives Fiona the opportunity to focus and ensure that a truly bespoke offering is afforded to all of her clients. 

We are real estate specialists with the sector knowledge & experience to broker your debt requirements.

We are Finance 55.

Awards & Governing Bodies

At Finance 55 we have a reputation for providing excellent commercial & corporate finance advice.

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